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RTAP HMI's and Visualization
Front and center in any operator's interaction with the SCADA system is the Human Machine Interface (HMI). To have the flexibility to accommodate industry challenges associated with asset diversity, a changing regulatory environment and a changing competitive environment, Industrial Defender offers two powerful choices in HMIs. The Visualizer is available to accommodate Windows based clients and SchematX to accommodate Unix or Linux clients. For ultimate flexibility, you can mix and match our windows based Visualizer HMI with Unix, Linux or Windows database servers. Additionally SchematX can interoperate with Unix or Linux database servers.
The engineering effort required to develop operator interfaces can be drastically reduced using RTAP HMIs. The number of individual screens that must be created and maintained in large systems can be reduced significantly by taking advantage of the relative addressing concept inherent in the RTAP database hierarchy. At run time, displays receive a pointer to a branch in the database and all database links are resolved relative to that pointer.
This allows, for example, a single display that represents a motor to be used for all motors of the same type in the system.
RTAP HMIs also have various other benefits that allow flexibility to accommodate expanding data sources and system size. Smart symbols provide scalability and lower lifecycle costs. These reusable smart symbols can be created once, reused many times and modified at a group level - automatically updating all display screens where they are used. Smart symbols include the visible component, database links, any scripts and dynamics that define how the symbol appears at run time.
To allow for both simplicity and flexibility in graphic development both Industrial Defender HMI's offer a simplified scripting language. Visualizer also offers a powerful complete scripting language to manipulate and perform actions on graphic components in the form of VBA.
RTAP Web Services
To improve your organization's responsiveness RTAP Web Services makes real-time information from your automated facilities widely available throughout your corporation. Because of its true thin client design, any modern browser on any operating system can be used to display RTAP data. Only standard Internet technologies are used, so other display types including wireless devices can also be supported.
RTAP Web Services are used to provide reports, charts and custom "dashboard" displays of real-time information for users outside the control room. Process operators, who need high bandwidth, information intensive displays are best served by the RTAP Operator HMI.
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