SCADA has become a regular feature in most industries. The demands of customer vary from redundancy to audit trial to wireless communication for getting data from remote locations.
Wireless communication is possible with cellular technology, GPS/GPRS and cloud. Condition monitoring of major devices can be provided to prevent disaster occurring, saving on replacement and down time. Online monitoring of the plant and generation of alarms via SMS and emails have become a norm in Industry 4.0 to curtail downtime.
The industry concerns for protection of programmable controller, Automation networks & for safeguarding industrial communication is addressed by Security Ethernet Switches.