Method and apparatus for automatically generating a SCADA system

• US 20020193888A1
• Filed: 10/04/2001
• Published: 12/19/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bandu Wewalaarachchi, Pramod V. Bhave
• Original Assignee: Bandu Wewalaarachchi, Pramod V. Bhave
• Inventors: Bhave, Pramod V., Wewalaarachchi, Bandu
• Granted Patent: US 6,957,110 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/9
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/32404 Scada supervisory control and data acquisition
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/0208 characterized by the configuration of the monitoring system

Abstract

A method for automatically configuring a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system using an as-built drawing. The electronic as-built file is scanned for devices selected from a menu. A list is compiled of selected devices, including location and relational information for each device. Selected graphical information from the electronic as-built file is then converted into a preferred SCADA graphical user interface.

Claims

1. A method for automatically generating a supervisory control data acquisition system comprising:

identifying devices on an as-built electronic data file;

creating data cells that represent identified devices based on default icon defined for specified device types;

identifying device-specific information and device relational information form the as-built electronic data file; and

configuring each data cell with said device-specific information.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising generating a background graphic from the as-built electronic data file showing the relationship between selected devices.

3. The method of claim 1 where in the as-built electronic data file is in the DXF format.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

identifying a device type and a device address for a specific device from said as-built electronic data file; and

binding the data cell corresponding to such specific device to said device address.

5. The method according to claim 1 further comprising using attributes of drawing elements to specify the binding address and to specify a user interface icon.