Reliable Ethernet (Switches, Routers and Wireless) Communication in Utility and Industrial Automation Plants
Safety and uptime are the most important factors! In today’s world with automation systems in place, the communication infrastructure is almost like the central nervous system for the system and should therefore have the highest amount of available uptime. In order to have high amounts of uptime the two points are possibly the most important: […]
Communications in Industrial and Utility Networks
Data Communications A strong, stable communication infrastructure is critical to everyone within the industrial and utility worlds. Data communication between different PLCs, RTUs, IEDs, servers, HMI machines etc. is very important as this is the backbone which allows for other several different types of communication. Visual communication involves remote monitoring of sites using video cameras, […]
Industrial Communication in Industrial Control and Automation Plants
All plants are moving towards automating their plants. Part of the automation process is having the ability to start, stop and control remote processes such as dam levels, water pumps, conveyer belts, compressors, fridge plants etc… remotely! In order to control these devices remotely a strong, reliable communication infrastructure is required for all given conditions. […]
H3iSquared Case Study – Network Audit
In October 2011 H3iSquared was commissioned to analyse and audit a client’s large scale network, due to the fact that users were experiencing slow response times when accessing specific databases across the network. The data traffic on the network was analysed at different times from different locations on the network, whilst at the same time […]
Industrial Ethernet (Switches and Routers) Communication in Industrial Automation Plants
Industrial Ethernet has very rapidly become the reliable technology for Automation Communication within production plants, Utility Substations and ITS. Some of the reason for this rapid change is based on flexibility, expandability, reliability, resilience, open world standard protocols, ability to adopt legacy protocols, ease of troubleshooting and maintenance. When most plants started with Ethernet, correct […]
Automation Solutions from RuggedCom
Automation is becoming more and more prevalent in today’s industrial and utility environments, mostly due to plants moving away from serial and point to point connections between devices and instead changing over to Ethernet. Due to the open standards in Ethernet, vendors of IEDs and RTUs are starting to include Ethernet interfaces in all their […]
Automation Solutions from RuggedCom
Automation is becoming more and more prevalent in today’s industrial and utility environments, mostly due to plants moving away from serial and point to point connections between devices and instead changing over to Ethernet. Due to the open standards in Ethernet, vendors of IEDs and RTUs are starting to include Ethernet interfaces in all their […]
Mission Critical Cyber Security
In our modern world, Ethernet and TCP/IP have become the de facto standard in most mission critical control and monitoring applications, in a large part due to the design of these protocol suites around the Open System Interconnect (OSI) model. However the freedom and flexibility of being built around such an open system philosophy, while […]
Importance of TCP/IP Networking in Modern Mission Critical Applications
In the last two decades, Ethernet and the TCP/IP suite of protocols have become the de-facto standards for not only home networks and the Internet, but also for mission-critical control, automation and protection systems used in the industrial and utility sectors. Originally mostly just used for monitoring of devices and systems as well as facilitating […]
Cyber Security in Mission Critical Networks
In 1972 the original Ethernet technology was designed, implemented and tested by Robert Metcalfe and his team in Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center as a way to share data amongst computers over a distributed communications network. Over the last 50 years, this technology has shaped the global society in ways that could scarcely have been […]