Improvement of Human-Plant Interactivity via Industrial Cloud-Based Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition System

Abstract

Industrial companies look for the best way to be perfectly optimized, failure resistant, how to handle increasing amounts of information, and have more open and reliable union with their customers and suppliers. This paper focuses on the improvement of industry performance through the integration of SCADA/HMI (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition/Human Machine Interface), SOA (Serviced Oriented Architecture) and cloud computing. This paper's contribution is in a failover and high availability solution for small and medium industry companies. The contribution is based on the integration of the cloud and SCADA/HMI, and contains a developed SOA load balancer for better accessibility to the cloud. This whole solution improves performance, reliability and availability. It is cost-effective and includes a mobile device implementation for controlling and monitoring systems. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2014.