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Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) technology has evolved over the past 30 years as a methodof monitoring and controlling large processes. This guide offers overviews of SCADA's component technologies, as well as details necessary to understand the big picture. SCADA processes cover areas that may be measured in the thousands of square miles, and have dimensions that may be hundreds, occasionally thousands, of miles long. Now a mature technology, SCADA includes, but is not limited to, software packages that an be incorporated in a larger system. After completing its 14 self-study units, readers should be conversant with SCADA nomenclature and architecture, understand the basic technology of the system's building blocks, understand its limitations, understand how it can benefit particular operations, and have a basis for selecting appropriate SCADA technologies for their operational requirements. Contents: What Is SCADA?A Brief HistoryReal-Time SystemsRemote Control - What Not to SCADACommunicationRadioRemote Terminal UnitsMaster Terminal UnitsSensors, Actuators, and WiringApplicationsOperator InterfaceSCADA EconomicsBibliography and Glossary. ... Read more

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Outdated and Simplistic
I found this book to contain outdated technological references and was about the level of a high school course

Total waste of time and money
Info: I read the 3rd edition what was published in 2004.

General: The book is easy to read and does not keep repeating itself. The chapters are ordered in a way that seems logical.

Bookcontent:
70% of the book has nothing to do with SCADA but is informing you on ways of communicating, which can be used for SCADA. This part was written in a time that a 1200 baud modem was state of the art equipment AND THAT WAS NOT 2004! The rest of the book gives you a global idea what the difference is between RTU's and MTU's and what they can do. Based on the fact that the communication part is completely outdated this will be as well. It did not give me any additional information on what I already new.

A book with a very specific orientation
This book is NOT suited for electrical engineers who want to learn SCADA. It is, however, adequate for business men or managers who would like to acquire a general (very general indeed)understanding of SCADA terminology. Themes within the book are treated superficially sometimes, with a greater depth in others (such as when addressing protocols) that is not consistent nor coherent. I do not recommend this book for a Power Systems Engineer, student of such systems, or any electric or electronic engineer that wishes to understand SCADA.

Excellent for training
For training technicians, this book provides an excellent introduction to how SCADA systems work. Most of the more detailed system information requires training and manuals from specific vendors who usually provide good information on their products but little in the way of a system-wide view.

SCADA Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, 2nd edition
I found this book to contain mostly dated, simplistic information and believe it to be unsuitable for an engineer.It will NOT advance the expertise of anyone with even minor expertise in this field.I'm stunned that it has ISA backing and is a second edition.Don't waste your time on this book unless you need only a casual, conceptual understanding of this subject. ... Read more

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Old Crows are Wise Crows
I have just finished reading this book.While a number of references are out of date (like paper-tape storage), this book is full of useful information on how real-time and multitasking computing is done.My background is Electronic Engineering.All the examples are for chemical processes but still get the point across.I work at with an advanced fighter simulator doing avionics testing.I am recommending this book to all my fellow engineers.If you can find a copy of this book (or better yet an update version) get it, read it, and use it.I will. ... Read more

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Provides a resource for students who apply personal computers to applications in electronics; from interfacing, digital input/output, analog input/output, to data acquisition and computer control of external devices. DLC: Computer interfaces. ... Read more

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The proceedings of this important conference are aimed at those engaged in remote control and monitoring of underwater systems. All aspects of underwater engineering are covered including underwater repair and replacement. Adoption of oceanographic, defence and marine technology to meet the needs of the offshore oil and gas industry will be of particular interest.

Subsea Control and Data Acquisition will be essential reading for those in the offshore oil and gas industry who have involvement in, or responsibility for, subsea production control and monitoring systems as well as those in industry who are dealing with related technologies. ... Read more

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Dealing exclusively with underwater instrumentation, control, and communication technology for subsea oil and gas production, Subsea Control and Data Acquisition has been structured to cover relevant experience and challenges in frontier subsea developments.

Aimed at professionals active in subsea production systems, in particular those engaged in the control and monitoring of such installations, and engineers keen to keep abreast of current practice and technologies, this volume covers operational experience of long offset control and monitoring, as well as enhanced oil recovery and discusses relevant topics in subsea and hole monitoring, such as,

• Reliability
• Enhanced oil recovery
• Subsea and down hole monitoring
• Long offset control
• Subsea communication/control

Reliability of systems plays a dominant role, and the effect of regional legislation is not forgotten; this volume includes contributions from experienced experts from major oil companies to challenge the reader.

The accompanying CD can be requested from the UK Editorial team. Send requests to Debbie Cox, decox@wiley.com.  ... Read more

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The biennial conferences of the Society for UnderwaterTechnology have achieved an excellent reputation for the quality oftheir presentations, which cover topics of the most acute currentinterest, as well as those at the forefront of review and development.The 1994 conference onSubsea Control and Data Acquisitionformed no exception, since it covers subjects at the cutting edge ofmodern technology.
It is a matter of increasing concern that products are becomingoverspecified, resulting in excessive costs and longer developmentschedules, while not conferring an equivalent benefit in reliabilityof the finished product.
Subsea Control and Data Acquisition is vital reading for allsubsea control system designers, manufacturers and operators,equipment consultants, application engineers, academics in the subseaengineering field, and all subsea engineers.
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The book title is not correct
If you are looking for information to understand how subsea systems works, this book is not for you, is rather a collection of papers presented during shows or seminars, must of this papers can be obtained in the internet at a lower price or even at no cost, but the problem is that as is just a collection of papers there is no discussion or logical sequence. ... Read more

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This all-in-one reference offers comprehensive, in-depth coverage of the M68HC11 to readers who will be designing real systems using this popular microcontroller. Focusing on the M68HC11 as a laboratory measurement and process control platform, it provides all the design and development tools needed to create a microcontroller-based “product” that can solve common application problems; no outside data or references are needed.Organized into four sections: Part I covers the M68HC11 microcontroller and the Evaluation Board (EVB) system; Part II features new chapters on Program Design and Designing and Writing Program Modules; Part III includes four re-written chapters on software considerations and hardware design procedures to acquire input data and provide output interface and control with the microcontroller; Part IV provides five applications chapters solving five typical engineering problems.Appropriate for anyone interested in microcontrollers or microprocessors. ... Read more

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DATA ACQUISITION AND PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEMS 8051
DATA ACQUISITION AND PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEMS ON 8051 MICRO CONTROLLER 8 BIT

Great Book
It is a great book, great explanations, cover most topics of the MC68HC11 microcontroller; and especially if you got the M68HC11EVB this book would be useful. ... Read more

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Why purchase expensive add-on cards or bus interfaces when you can develop effective and economical data acquisition and process controls using C programs? Using the under-employed printer adapter (that is, the parallel port of your PC), you can turn your computer into a powerful tool for developing microprocessor applications. Learn how to build a complete data acquisition system and such varied applications as a CCD camera controller, a photometer interface, and a wave form generator. The book also covers the enhanced parallel port (EPP), the extended capabilities port (ECP), interfacing analog-to-digital converters, and data acquisition under Linux. This extraordinary software approach to interfacing through the parallel port will be especially appealing to programmers involved in control systems design and device development, as well as to those who work with real-time and embedded systems.;

Key topics include; the Enhanced Parallel Port (EPP), Extended Communications Port (ECP), Analog/Digital Converters (ADC and DAC), adding bits to the parallel port, hosting an EPROM emulator, connecting to an external microprocessor, and generating digital waveforms. ... Read more

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Programming the Parallel Port
I wanted to know if and how I could use the parallel port to input data from my old Heathkit weather station.It is a free running system that displays in and out door temperatures, barometric pressure and wind speed and direction. It stores the maximum and minimum values of the above too.If I could get the data into my PC, I could archive and analyze it.This book helped me understand the port data lines and how they are used to talk to the peripheral connected to it.It is an old book, Copyright 1998, so the sample programs are in C language and I have not learned to use 'C' yet. I still have to build the interface box but it does look promising. I have Windows XP Home ED. and a 'Home-brew' PC. running at 2 G Hz.

Excellent
I found this book very useful. I am a master degree student and I recommend this book. The author explains all the important things to work with the parallel port.

Simple, direct, effective book
This is a book written by a person that clearly understands his job. It is also fairly complete in its scope (the use of paralell port in data acquisition and control) and simple to follow. Almost immediately you get suggestions to fullfill your needs. It is an ideal book in two situations, I think: if you are begining a project and have not a lot of experience or if you are just studying. Nobody will loose having this book.

Excellent approach to data acqusition
Dr. Gadre gives a very useful approach to using the parallel port as a general-purpose data acquisition bus. Another review of this book mentioned that it was light on ECP & EPP coverage. While yes, the chapter devoted to this is short, the material presented in that chapter is used later in the book in specific examples. Also, coverage is not limited to the DOS/BIOS environment, there is a chapter on using the parallel port under Linux. While some of the material is a little bit dated ("newer" Linux kernels according to the text are those from 1.2 on) this must be moderated by the understanding that the book was published in 1998 and undoubtedly written to a large extent in the years prior. In fact, a great deal of data acquisition even today still takes place within DOS, so any DOS-related information is still very useful, and the electronic circuits presented are virtually timeless. I didn't notice in particular any parts listed which weren't available, and most would probably be best emulated in a PLD today anyway.

My main problem with the book is the number of typos I've found so far, which is why I've withheld a star.

A very useful book
This book with its very clear exposition on the basics of using parallel port as a data acquisition and control structure makes it very easy to develop numerous applications for the PC environment easily. The book's clear explanations make it very easy to go from a primitive state to a fairly advanced state, quickly and unambigously. Although a notable gap seems to be the details of the newer parallel port modes such as ECP and operating system and application level programming for the same, the book is very useful from the point of view of using the parallel port for data gathering and analysis. I would recommend this book as almost mandatory reading for someone wishing to use the parallel port on the PC. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Plastics Engineering, published by Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc. on March 1, 2003. The length of the article is 377 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Data acquisition & control modules. (Computer Hardware & Software).(Action Instruments product information)
Author: Hope Molinaro
Publication: Plastics Engineering (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2003
Publisher: Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc.
Volume: 59Issue: 3Page: 38(1)

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This immediately useful, single-source reference covers all areas of computer-based data acquisition;from basic concepts to the most recent technical developments;without the burden of long theoretical derivations and proofs.Offers practical, solution-oriented design examples and real-life case studies in each chapter and furnishes valuable selection guides for specific types of hardware! ... Read more

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Great stuff
this book has changed my life... after reading this book i have become more confident in everyday happenings... i have got a new lease on life. this book is a must buy for all people who need to know anything about Date aquisitions and how to become popular ... Read more

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The first comprehensive and up-to-date reference on mechatronics, Robert Bishop's The Mechatronics Handbook was quickly embraced as the gold standard in the field. With updated coverage on all aspects of mechatronics, The Mechatronics Handbook, Second Edition is now available as a two-volume set. Each installment offers focused coverage of a particular area of mechatronics, supplying a convenient and flexible source of specific information. This seminal work is still the most exhaustive, state-of-the-art treatment of the field available.

Focusing on the most rapidly changing areas of mechatronics, this book discusses signals and systems control, computers, logic systems, software, and data acquisition. It begins with coverage of the role of control and the role modeling in mechatronic design, setting the stage for the more fundamental discussions on signals and systems. The volume reflects the profound impact the development of not just the computer, but the microcomputer, embedded computers, and associated information technologies and software advances. The final sections explore issues surrounding computer software and data acquisition.

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The Data Acquisition and Control Handbook is a comprehensive overview of issues that influence the selection and use of equipment and computerized data acquisition and control. ... Read more

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Summarizes information collected during numerous meetings with oil company representatives, many log quality audits and several seminars, designed for earth science specialists who use log data. Addresses the needs of logging engineers who seek a better understanding of the log acquisition process. ... Read more