SCADA for technical infrastructure monitoring

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems are widely used at CERN and in industrial control environments. Recently the CERN Controls Board recommended a SCADA system for use in the CERN experiments and the controls sectors. The Technical Control Room (TCR) currently monitors the complete technical infrastructure at CERN using a component-ware architecture. A migration to the recommended SCADA system has been started in order to be ready for the monitoring of the future LHC infrastructure. This gives the advantage of having an integrated tool for alarms, mimic diagrams, trending and data acquisition but requires a careful analysis of the hard- and software architecture. The configuration management, the supervision of the different elements in the control chain and the data exchange with other systems will play an important role and have to be considered from the beginning.