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Real-time Object Database / Process / Event / Alarm Management / History

At the heart of the RTAP SCADA platform is an object oriented real-time database that provides the flexibility and openness to address the most demanding industry challenges. In many industries such as water, oil & gas, transportation and power the scale and diversity of assets is increasing rapidly. This increasing asset mix coupled with more demanding regulatory requirements and changing competitive environments are pushing the capabilities of monitoring and control systems. SCADA systems must be equipped to handle the increasing size and scope of emerging systems. With the power of RTAP's real-time object database, considerable engineering hours and system downtime can be avoided throughout the lifecycle of large-scale automation systems - from development through expansion and maintenance. RTAP's database offers the following benefits:
  • Manage your assets more effectively by organizing the database into objects that model the hierarchy of your physical operations.
  • Eliminate repetitive steps involved in modeling hundreds of similar components within your operations by copying and reusing database objects, full database branches and graphical objects throughout the system.
  • Drastically improve the scalability of your system through the use and management of groups of objects called classes. Individual modifications made to a class affect all members or instances of that class, avoiding the need to modify individual system components.
  • Save significant time in the development of the operator interface. Through the powerful concept of relative addressing, common graphic diagrams and control panels once created, can then be animated by whatever object in the database that is referenced at the time.
  • Flexibly model any kind of application through complete control over the structure of the basic systems building block - the database object. For example the database object could represent:
  • Physical entities of varying complexity, such as pressure transducers, fractionation columns, or pump stations
  • Calculated entities like KPIs such as power output or plant efficiency
  • Application support entities, such as recipes or batch records
Leveraging these benefits not only reduces the lifecycle cost in the SCADA system, by making it easier, more flexible and more efficient to work with, it also increases the overall reliability and effectiveness of your operations.

The database also provides benefits through the following components:

Calculation Engine
Like a spreadsheet, the event driven calculation engine (CE) is used to handle a wide range of computation problems, without programming. The CE is similar in concept to a spreadsheet in that definitions can be associated among any values in the database. It automatically updates derived values whenever raw data is acquired - whether from the scan system, an operator entry, or an application. In addition to a library of base CE functions provided with RTAP, developers can also write any type of industry specific function they require.

Alarm System
RTAP provides a powerful and extensible alarm mechanism that can be tailored to meet the most demanding detection, filtering, notification and logging requirements. A user-friendly alarm display front end integrates directly into HMI panels and is fully configurable.

Long Term Historian
The RTAP Historian allows you to create a long-term, time series history record for any value in the database. Sampling can be time or event driven and optional dead banding can be used to filter out minor changes. The storage capacity is limited only by the size of your disk. Although stored on disk, history files are accessed through the real-time database and are an extension to its object structure.

RTAP Environment Services
In providing leading flexibility to manage demanding SCADA systems, RTAP environments can be optimized per machine for each unique application or purpose. RTAP supports distributed systems cost-effectively. An RTAP environment can be a modular group of cooperating processes and shared resources or it can be a full-fledged automation system, communicating with other environments, other computers, other software packages, and other parts of your business. An RTAP event manager can watch for triggers from RTAP and other applications and will then initiate real-time follow on activities within in entire SCADA system.

RTAP Redundancy
Living up to an established reputation for superior reliability RTAP comes with various features to ensure downtime is virtually nonexistent, especially in large complex systems where reliability is sometimes a challenge. A complete packaged redundancy solution is available with RTAP. The RTAP redundancy solution provides bumpless failover of HMI clients and the ability to have multiple hot standby database servers. Standby servers are instantly synchronized so that there is no loss of data during changeover. Standby servers can also be controlled for trial or test purposes before going back online.



   
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