The City of Medicine Hat (Population: 60,000, Location: Southeast Alberta, Canada) has long been known as “The Gas City” for the vast natural gas fields that surround it. The City’s gas distribution department supplies natural gas to over 26,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customer locations. The department also provides customer service, engineering, construction, operation, and[…]

VTScada Performs Batch Management and Quality Control for a Cutting-Edge Brewery

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A Michigan utility upgraded an aging SCADA application on a limited budget and timeline Houghton Lake Sewer Authority (HLSA) manages a sanitary sewage facility for the townships of Denton, Lake, and Roscommon. In December of 2011, staff at the HLSA were concerned that the aging computer running their SCADA software application was in danger of[…]

Project Completed by Central Texas Water Maintenance (CTWM) Serving a suburb of the Greater Austin Metropolitan Area, Dripping Springs Water Supply Corporation (DSWSC) recently decided to replace their Wonderware and WIN-911 SCADA system with VTScada, with the help of Austin area integrator, Central Texas Water Maintenance (CTWM). The Dripping Springs Water Supply Corporation System:  DSWSC[…]

A new approach to historical data helps a FL utility prepare for the future. Many SCADA Historians Make Light Work for Gainesville Regional Utilities (GRU) GRU is the 5th largest municipal utility in Florida and serves over 100,000 people.  In 1999, the utility unified much of its monitoring and control infrastructure into a single SCADA[…]

Balancing System Growth Against Destabilizing Uncertainty As managers of the world’s most valuable resource, water and wastewater SCADA systems require the highest level of protection against both internal and external risks. While there is great buzz around cyber-security, precious little attention is given to ensuring the stability of a system against the sheer weight of[…]