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- At its core,
Power SCADA Operation is based
on another software package called Citect SCADA.
If you're already familiar with Citect,
you may be wondering where the two software's diverge.
So let's look into which skills will transfer over.
At its lowest level,
Studio is the same between both applications.
Navigation works the same
and the Citect add-on utilities
like the Express Wizard are all here.
However, on installation,
Power SCADA Operation comes
with an extra include project called PLS Include.
This contains a large amount of Cicode
to enable common functions in a project,
including both graphical functions and data acquisition.
It also has a large number of graphics pages,
legacy page templates,
and genies,
if you use the Graphics Builder,
but I'll discuss that more in a moment.
We also have a couple of configuration tools
that aren't needed for a building automation system,
but make more sense in electrical power monitoring.
The largest of these is Profile Editor,
which allows us to build standard templates
of what the different types of equipment look like
and how their tags are addressed.
These profiles are used by the I/O Device Manager
to automatically populate the databases with devices,
variable tags,
alarm tags and parameters.
Think of this as the replacement for the Express Wizard.
That said,
the Profile Editor only supports certain protocols
so don't forget about the Express Wizard entirely.
On the subject of device communications,
Power SCADA Operation also comes
with the Power Modbus Driver.
This allows us to perform more advanced formatting
and calculations inside a single variable tag.
For example,
we can read the mean of several registers in a device.
Scale that by the value in another register
and apply an offset without any external Cicode.
We also have the Application Configuration Utility,
which is used to secure access to other tools
that don't exist in Citect SCADA.
There are number of options here including login
with a YubiKey one-time password.
It also has a diagnostics tool for viewing
and configuring device communication parameters.
I mentioned that PLS Include
contain some standard graphical components.
While Graphics Builder is still available,
we refer to that as Legacy Graphics
because we have a separate,
fully HTML5 compatible graphics engine,
which uses a tool called Graphics Editor
as its development environment.
In addition to replacing the Graphics Builder,
this also makes the standard Citect thick clients
and web clients obsolete
as the Web HMI can be deployed automatically
to any device running a modern browser.
Alongside the graphics,
we also have an engine running called Advanced One-Line,
which allows us to change one-line bus colors based
on their energized status,
the sources feeding them,
and indicate if they're being fed by parallel sources.
This allows an operator
to quickly determine the state of their network.
Finally,
we can integrate Power Operation
with the Advanced Reports and Dashboards Module,
also known as power monitoring expert.
This gives us a full SQL based historical database
with built-in reports and running dashboards.
While this is similar to Citect Historian,
the functionality is tuned to electrical monitoring
such as power quality reporting and load profiles.
There are also add-on modules to Advanced Reports,
enabling features like billing,
modeling and EPSS testing.
While Citect SCADA serves as its base,
all these additional tools
and features make Power SCADA Operation ideal
for usage in an EPMS.
Development is faster.
Deployment is simpler,
and the End User Interface provides more utility.
The upcoming video series will show you exactly
how to enable all this functionality.
Stay with me for more
and thank you.