Tuesday, March 19, 2024

8 Free And Open Source Software For SCADA

By Atithya Amaresh

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Looking for open source alternatives to your Scada software? Here’s bringing 8 free and open source software to create your ICS for free. Enjoy!

SCADA relates to software which is used to control hardware and acquire data from these devices. When we break it down to essentials, we have Supervisory control and data acquisition, as explained here. It is used in power plants as well as in oil and gas refining, telecommunications, transportation, and water and waste control.

1. Free Scada

Supported OS: Windows

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License: Freeware

This book provides for end-users flexible tools for visualization and interactive control of any industrial process.

2. IndigoSCADA

Supported OS: Windows, Linux

License: GPL

A small footprint SCADA system entirely developed in C and C++ with multiple OS support and multiple front end protocol drivers.

3. openDAX

Supported OS: Linux

License: GPL

OpenDAX is an open source, modular, data acquisition and control system.

4. PascalSCADA

Supported OS: Windows, Linux

License: GPL

It is a set of components (framework) for Delphi/Lazarus to make easy the development of industrial applications (HMI=Human Machine Interface/SCADA=System Control And Data Acquisition). It runs on Windows, Linux and FreeBSD.

5. S.E.E.R. 2

Supported OS: Linux

License: GPL

S.E.E.R. 2 is a full featured Historian / Aggregate Analysis System developed to work as a ‘front end’ for mod_openopc.

6. SCADA ProcessViewer

Supported OS: Windows

License: GPL

Crossplatform SCADA written in Free Pascal language

7. ScadaBR

Supported OS: Windows

License: GPL

ScadaBR is a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system with applications in Process Control and Automation, being developed and distributed using the open source model

8. Szarp

Supported OS: Windows, Linux

License: GPL

SZARP is a full-featured, open source SCADA system for Linux. Client programs are available for Linux and Windows.


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This article was first published on 10 March 2017 and was recently updated on 13 December 2018.

7 COMMENTS

  1. I am looking for a SCADA for a real time transportation system. Getting the vehicle dynamics info from a vehicle and have the ability to control it via the SCADA system which will be located in the control station. Open source :)!

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