TOPOLOGY OF REMOTE DISPATCHING AND AUTOMATION TOOLS FOR WATER MANAGEMENT FACILITIES

Abstract

In today’s information and social environment, the dispatching process is becoming a prerequisite for meeting high management requirements and is gaining wide scale. The materials of the thesis provide information on the general functions and features of the work of continuous monitoring and operational response services. The topology of remote dispatching is presented on the example of water facilities in the Mykolaiv region and the automation tools that are part of the remote monitoring system are considered. Particular attention is paid to wireless communication systems that provide data transmission between long-distance facilities and the dispatch centre. To organise dispatch control, it is proposed to use a SCADA system that will be connected to the Cloud storage via an OPC server, or to develop an own web-based system that can receive data from the cloud storage using an open API and http-requests. The article considers cyber security of the monitoring system against external threats. Security programs control the flow of data between different networks and block potentially dangerous connections, and today they are an integral part of the dispatching scheme.