Support for common SCADA applications: Load Forecasting, Load Management, ODA, eAlarms, and MultiSpeak
Support for Quad Redundancy
Support for User Interface of WorldView and PlusEditors
Database Import to QSCADA
https://www.qeiinc.com/
5. CONFIDENTIAL
Master Station Overview
• TDMS – OpenVMS based SCADA system
• QSCADA – Windows based SCADA system
• Both Systems provide core SCADA features of reliable Data
Acquisition and Control
• Suite of Communication Protocols
• Alarm and Event Recording, Historical Archiving
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6. CONFIDENTIAL
Master Station Overview
• Support for common SCADA applications: Load
Forecasting, Load Management, ODA, eAlarms, and
MultiSpeak
• Support for Quad Redundancy
• Support for User Interface of WorldView and PlusEditors
• Database Import to QSCADA
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7. CONFIDENTIAL
Master Station Security Features
• Individual User Accounts
- Operating system, application
- User must provide valid username and password to
access system
• Passwords
- Expanded to 16 characters
- Minimum # of characters
- Strong passwords (require upper, lower, space, number, or
special)
- User cannot reuse last password
- Password expiration
- Store encrypted
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8. CONFIDENTIAL
Master Station Security Features
• Strong Encryption on Network Transmissions of Security Information
• Account Lock-out
- Inactivity
- Invalid login attempts
- Manual
• Appropriate Use Banner
• Administrator password for Security tools
• Security Logging
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9. CONFIDENTIAL
Master Station Update
• Recent Developments
- Enhanced Network Configuration and Communications
- Protocols: Secure DNP
- Enhanced Voltage Reduction Capability
- Enhanced Load Management Data and Event Recording
- Voltage Optimization
- MultiSpeak Interfaces
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10. CONFIDENTIAL
WorldView Overview
• Full feature HMI for
display and control of
SCADA system
• Map, Alarm View,
Station Summary, Event
Summary, & Operator
Summary
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11. CONFIDENTIAL
WorldView Update
• Recent Developments
- Transformer Monitoring
- Graph Updates
- Support for Operator Training Simulator and Playback
- Event Viewer
- Support for Load Management (monitoring and
reporting)
- View Only Mode
- Support for Disturbance Analysis
- Mathematical Expressions for Database Points
- User Sessions
- View Indexes (navigate from Alarms to Map display)
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12. CONFIDENTIAL
PlusEditors Overview
• Full feature database editing
tool
• Windows Explorer tree style
navigation
• Detail form views for editing
• Online and offline editing
capabilities
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14. CONFIDENTIAL
ODA Overview
• Publish real-time SCADA data into a Relational Database
• Isolates SCADA network from Corporate access
• Facilitates Web pages, Outage Notification & Restoration,
Maintenance & Usage Reporting, Engineering Analysis &
Management Reports, and Data Warehousing
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15. CONFIDENTIAL
ODA Update
• Recent Developments
- Full schema now includes Points, Tags, Events, Alarms, History,
and Messages
- Alarm client link failures
- Support Point Writes and Controls to database points
- Support for Operator Training Simulator
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