Development of a service oriented SCADA system

Monitoring and control of technological process, in many cases spread out over small or large geographical areas, are achieved with supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA. This is a fact imposed by technological requirements and also by economical aspects. This approach raises a number of problems, starting from the design and implementation solutions as well as security and safety in these systems. This paper makes a brief analysis of these issues, and starting from this point authors propose a solution based on Service-Oriented Architecture SOA which may represent a solution to some of the identified challenges. For the proposed solution a study is performed. The results are used to conclude on applicability conditions and recommendations on the design and implementation of monitoring and control systems in case of database-as-a-service DbaaS approach. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer review under responsibility of Emerging Markets Queries in Finance and Business local organization