supervisory control and data acquisition

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supervisory control and data acquisition [‚sü·pər¦vīz·ə·rē kən‚trōl ən ′dad·ə ‚ak·wə‚zish·ən]

(engineering)

A version of telemetry commonly used in wide-area industrial applications, such as electrical power generation and distribution and water distribution, which includes supervisory control of remote stations as well as data acquisition from those stations over a bidirectional communications link. Abbreviated SCADA.

(application)

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition - (SCADA) Systems are used in industry to monitor and control plant status and provide logging facilities. SCADA systems are highly configurable, and usually interface to the plant via PLCs.

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