Component-based design for SCADA architecture

Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) software which is suitable to distributed control systems is a demand for system developers because the characteristics of existing SCADA software packages are hard to satisfy the requirements of distributed systems. For the strengths of component-oriented techniques, this paper proposes a component-oriented architecture of SCADA software to satisfy the demand of distributed control systems. Design pattern and OPC (OLE for Process Control) technology are also used to make the openness for the architecture.