Uncomfortable questions to help you sleep better. Scenario 1: It is 3 am and you are fast asleep at home in your bed. At your office across town, the SCADA system server that monitors and controls your critical water and wastewater infrastructure goes offline. Maybe, the hard drive failed or the power supply died. Perhaps[…]

When I first came to Trihedral, I was surprised to learn that voice modems were still widely used in the HMI and SCADA industries. Though the days of wedging your phone receiver into a foam cradle are long gone, the name still conjures up the sounds of chirps, bleeps, and bongs they make as they translate analog[…]

The story of an HMI display that stops folks in the aisle. This is the VTScada booth where we demonstrate our monitoring and control software at national water and wastewater exhibitions like WEFTEC and AWWA ACE. Looking like a two-story spaceship, our booth houses a fully-functional SCADA system that includes five redundant operator/developer workstations and[…]