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SCADA Platforms
Platform notes. Vendor names are used for identification only.
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VTScada
Field notes on VTScada, the Trihedral platform widely used by municipal water utilities: the all-in-one design with historian, alarm notification, and thin clients built in, server redundancy, application versioning, telemetry drivers, and licensing by tags.
8 min readUpdated Sep 5, 2026
Ignition
Field notes on Ignition from Inductive Automation: gateway and modules, unlimited licensing per server, Perspective and Vision clients, the SQL-based historian, Python scripting, redundancy, Edge for small sites, and what to decide before building on it.
8 min readUpdated Sep 5, 2026
GE iFIX
Field notes on iFIX, the long-established SCADA from the Intellution and GE lineage now sold by GE Vernova: SCADA nodes and the process database, I/O drivers, view and web clients, the Proficy Historian, enhanced failover, scripting, and licensing by points.
8 min readUpdated Sep 5, 2026
AVEVA
Field notes on the AVEVA operations software family, formerly Wonderware: InTouch HMI, System Platform and its object model, the Historian, Plant SCADA from the Citect lineage, and AVEVA Edge. Which product does what, and what to check on site.
8 min readUpdated Sep 5, 2026
Rockwell FactoryTalk
Field notes on the Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk family: View Site Edition and Machine Edition, the directory, Linx with direct controller tag access, device-based Alarms and Events, the PI-based Historian, ViewPoint and Optix, redundancy, and site checks.
8 min readUpdated Sep 5, 2026
Schneider SCADA
Field notes on Schneider Electric SCADA for water: EcoStruxure Geo SCADA Expert, formerly ClearSCADA, the telemetry platform built around DNP3 events, an object database, and hot standby servers, with SCADAPack RTUs, and how it relates to the AVEVA products.
8 min readUpdated Sep 5, 2026
Topics in this area
VTScada
VTScada — practical reference notes for controls engineers, integrators, and technicians working with scada platforms.
Ignition
Ignition — practical reference notes for controls engineers, integrators, and technicians working with scada platforms.
GE iFIX
GE iFIX — practical reference notes for controls engineers, integrators, and technicians working with scada platforms.
AVEVA
AVEVA — practical reference notes for controls engineers, integrators, and technicians working with scada platforms.
Rockwell FactoryTalk
Rockwell FactoryTalk — practical reference notes for controls engineers, integrators, and technicians working with scada platforms.
Schneider SCADA
Schneider SCADA — practical reference notes for controls engineers, integrators, and technicians working with scada platforms.
Other Platforms
Other Platforms — practical reference notes for controls engineers, integrators, and technicians working with scada platforms.
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