TY - BOOK ID - 53583662 TI - Practical SCADA for industry AU - Bailey, David AU - Wright, Edwin PY - 2003 SN - 0750658053 9786611222666 1281222666 0080473903 9780750658058 1417532300 9781417532308 9780080473901 9781281222664 6611222669 PB - Amsterdam London Elsevier DB - UniCat KW - Automatic data collection systems. KW - Supervisory control systems. KW - Control systems, Supervisory KW - SCADA systems KW - Supervisory control and data acquisition systems KW - Process control KW - Remote control KW - Data collection systems, Automatic KW - Factory data acquisition systems, Automatic KW - Factory monitoring systems, Automatic KW - In-plant data collection systems, Automatic KW - Automation KW - Communication in management KW - Data transmission systems UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:53583662 AB - A SCADA system gathers information, such as where a leak on a pipeline has occurred, transfers the information back to a central site, alerting the home station that the leak has occurred, carrying out necessary analysis and control, such as determining if the leak is critical, and displaying the information in a logical and organized fashion. SCADA systems can be relatively simple, such as one that monitors environmental conditions of a small office building, or incredibly complex, such as a system that monitors all the activity in a nuclear power plant or the activity of a municipal water sy ER -