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Industry
Utilities
Sector
Water & Sewerage
Segment
Sewage
Project
The Client is a water and sewerage utility responsible for managing over $2bn worth of assets. The Client developed a SCADA roadmap to move their legacy CitectSCADA systems to ClearSCADA and identified that in their networks over 50 legacy Elpro RTUs needed to be migrated but they did not support the preferred DNP3 communications. Rather than replace the RTUs a more cost effective solution was identified, develop a communication gateway and test it on a system with a small number of RTUs to prove the concept then roll it out to the remaining sites as required.
Cromarty were engaged by the client to develop, implement and test an Elpro RTU to DNP3 gateway.
Solution
The solution needed to allow parallel operation of the existing CitectSCADA system while the ClearSCADA gateway solution was implemented and tested. Cromarty selected a Red Lion Graphite Edge controller because of it's proven performance with DNP3 and ability to develop custom serial protocols drivers. Works included:
Outcome
The solution was implemented in parallel with the existing CitectSCADA system, this allowed testing of ClearSCADA and DNP3 communications to be performed whilst being operated from the existing control system. This significantly reduced the risk of the migration and provided a benchmark for testing. Going forward upgrades to the existing telemetry network were not required, no changes were needed at the existing outstations which significantly reduced the risk of the overall Citect to ClearSCADA migration and the solution was scalable to accommodate the 50 Elpro RTU outstations.