Well, for the past two years I was working in the SCADA host replacement project of Union Gas and SCADA had became my life and breath during that period. Now that I have moved on to a different field and given my nature of leaving my past work to the past, I wanted to write a few words before I forgot what SCADA was all about for me.
I wrote the real-time programs that would allow controlling of remote devices and also wrote programs that performed different calculations at certain points in time. Programming for SCADA Cygnet was nothing like the kind of programming that I had known before. Previously I had worked with procedural programs, declarative programs and while working in my academic research for natural language processing i had worked extensively with Miranda and some Hascal. and yet I found Real-time programming is so much different fundamentally. It was all because of a simple factor, “time”. The added dimension “Time” was THE fundamental change in real-time programming. The required programs can be written in any procedural language but the programs must be written so that the temporal aspect of the control flow is covered.
And that was what SCADA was to me.
Thanks for the writeup. It seems too complex a topic! By the way, how can we communicate?
thank you.
are you trying to say its too complex? if so i do agree.
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thank you