PLATFORM INTEGRATING CONTEXTUAL DATA FOR SUPERVISORY CONTROL AND DATA ACQUISITION (SCADA)
PLATFORM INTEGRATING CONTEXTUAL DATA FOR SUPERVISORY CONTROL AND DATA ACQUISITION (SCADA)
A method is described for controlling one or more industrial machines based on external contextual data and monitoring data of a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system. The method includes obtaining, using an application programming interface (API), the external contextual data from one or more external sources. Monitoring data including one or more alarms obtained from one or more remote terminal units (RTUs) associated with the one or more industrial machines is identified. The external contextual data is integrated with the monitoring data to form a combined display of the external contextual data and the monitoring data. Data is provided that visually associates the external contextual data and the one or more alarms in the combined display. Thereafter, a control instruction is communicated to the one or more industrial machines, via the one or more RTUs. The control instruction is configured to change the state of the one or more industrial machines to address the one or more alarms.