SCADA 101: Fundamentals with a Focus on Energy Management System (EMS)

Live Streaming Online July 31-August 1, 2023

An EUCI Program

If you are unable to attend at the scheduled date and time, we make recordings available to all registrants for three business days after the event

SCADA systems are generally used to monitor and control equipment in industries such as telecommunications, water and waste control, energy, oil and gas refining, and transportation—mainly systems that are geographically widespread.

Our instructor, a Principal Database Specialist with Xcel Energy, will guide attendees through an intensive review of:

Typical SCADA hardware components
How different telemetry points are processed
Data flow from the field, through RTU, to front-end processor, to control room
How data can be processed for the end user
Alarm processing
Switching controls
Processing logic in database, and putting it into the dynamic graphic user interface for end-to-end control and monitoring
Best practices in data maintenance
The uses of dispatch training system for real-time data analysis

Attendees will leave with a solid understanding of how SCADA systems work, how and why they were developed, how they are structured, its database and data collection techniques, and the uses of the dynamic data by the end user.

Learning Outcomes

Discuss the history and evolution of SCADA systems
Identify the basic hardware and software components of a SCADA system
Examine communication protocols that are used to transmit, collect, store, and manage data
Describe the increase need for cyber security for ICS
Evaluate different instrumentation measurement technologies
Review SCADA system architecture and discuss the data flow from field to control room
Identify alarm processing and supervisory control

Agenda

MONDAY, JULY 31, 2023

9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Central Time

SCADA Overview
SCADA Definition
SCADA History and Evolution
- By technological evolution
- Telemetry-based SCADA
- Minicomputers
- Microprocessors – PLC
SCADA Types
- By market evolution
- Monolithic
- Distributed
- Networked
SCADA System Components
Common SCADA Abbreviations
Typical Hardware SCADA Architecture
- Master administrator – data repository
- Communicator – data acquisition
- Front end processor – RTU
- Historian – data archiving
- Human Machine Interface – individual users
Typical System Division
- Primary system
- Backup system
- Training system (DTS)
RTUs
- RTU protocols types
- RTU scans rates and options
- Field devices
SCADA Data Collection – Point Types and Uses
- Analog points (measurements)
  - Limits
  - Setpoints
  - Secondary sources
- Accumulators (periodic collection)
  - Meter collections
  - Counter values
- Status points (indication and controls)
  - Alarm processing
  - Supervisory controls
Data Collection and Q&A Session

Course Adjourns for the Day

TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2023 : CENTRAL TIME

9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Central Time

Review of Day 1
Data Management
Maintaining the Data and Best Practices
- Constructions project
- Engineering points list
- Data standards
- Safe job processing (QAS and productions systems)
- Station one-line drawings and dynamic graphic user interface
- Point to point testing
- Checklist and procedures
SCADA Security and Additional Applications
Network Processing
Dispatch Training
Cyber Security of SCADA

Course Concludes

Instructor

Ivana O’Deen
Principal Database Specialist, Xcel Energy

Ivana O’Deen is a current Principal Database Specialist at Xcel Energy. She has been with Xcel Energy for over 15 years, where she has been responsible for managing and training employees on SCADA/EMS systems. Prior to her employment at Xcel Energy, she worked 11 years for Siemens, EMS division in Minnetonka, MN. During her employment at Siemens, she helped prototype numerous clients’ databases and displays, and she conducted the in-house training of Siemens Spectrum database and display systems management. 