[Qscada-developers] [Fwd: About SCADA]

[Iain B. <ia...@ne...>]

Hi all,

here is an email from Fernando, with some questions and comments.  He
found out about us by surfing the web, and I thought you might be
interested, or able to give him some help.  I've responded already.

-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Fernando Rodr=C3=ADguez Sela <fr...@le...>
To: ia...@us..., qt...@us...
Subject: About SCADA
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 21:29:38 +0100

Hello,

I'm a Spanish developer who is working in a SCADA environment for an=20
Spanish chemical company and I'm developing it with QT4 under Linux.

Surfing in the web I found your project which it's very similar to mine=20
;) ... as soon as I finish with this I'll try to help you in some areas=20
of your project if it doesn't  takes a lot of time (because I'm very=20
busy now) - If you need help in some area write me and I'll try to help=20
you ;)

Also, I want to make a little question about my project ... It's the=20
first time I work with PLCs so I'm a "Rockie" in this area :D ... My=20
main questions are:

1.- Is there any OMROM or SIEMENS emulator to test the SCADA=20
communications with it?
2.- Is there any library to communicate with OMROM (hostlink) and=20
SIEMENS (profibus?) in Linux? (no problem if it a commercial solution)
3.- Is there any good OPC for Linux? I saw a lot of it for Windows, but=20
I don't want to use it in a production enviroment and I prefer to use=20
the XML-DA protocol versus COM/DCOM ;)

My main idea of the project is a dedicated machine with Linux getting=20
information from all the plant PLCs and store all the sensors values in=20
a database (postgresql or MySQL), then the SCADA GUI will communicate=20
with the DB and show the information to the user.

My problems now are in getting information from the SCADA because I am=20
very far from the company so I need an emulator or something similar or=20
buy a developed environment.

Thanks,
Fernando.

--=20
Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

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