Trihedral’s Bryan Sinkler is responsible for VTScada software customers in the southeast US. Bryan will discuss how his SCADA system customers fared during Hurricane Irma and the important role that system redundancy and remote access play during dangerous weather events. Todd:  Good Afternoon and welcome back to Water Talk. I am your host, Todd Schnick,[…]

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[…]

Engineering students at the University of Alberta use drones and video analytics to detect abnormal objects at remote SCADA system sites and raise alarms in VTScadaLIGHT software. The timestamps of these alarms allow operators to locate the relevant clip from hours of recorded video. VTScadaLIGHT, a free version of Trihedral’s award winning monitoring and control[…]

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In this Video, we walk through the process of using ChangeSet files to distribute or update VTScada applications. ChangeSets are the preferred distribution and update method when the development computer and customer computer are not on the same network.