What are common features of IIoT and SCADA/HMI and differences between them? And what advantages do Intenet of Things Platforms have over SCADA Systems? Find out answers in the Presentation.

1. Will SCADA Systems
Survive? Or the Future
of Distributed
Management
Systems

2. IIoT Platforms Vs. SCADA/HMI/MES
Contemporary SCADA and IIoT platforms have a lot of common features:
• Same data collection protocols
• Identical archive storage methods, while binary storage has gone to
the past
• HMIs building is possible in both
• Similar ways of time-series data processing
Obviously, IIoT platforms offer all 4th
generation SCADA features (operation
in the cloud, web visualization, etc.)
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3. IIoT Platform Advantages As Compared to SCADA
• Solving complex cross-domain tasks (IT infrastructure
management, fleet monitoring, service modeling, etc.)
• Collecting and processing not only tags but also
structured data (incident tables, service catalogs,
arbitrary object hierarchies and connections between
them)
• Extensive support for multiple IT (Telnet/SSH, FTP), IoT
(MQTT, CoAP), and universal protocols (SOAP, CORBA)
• Complex data visualization (maps, statistical diagrams,
data-entry forms, OLAP cubes)
• Operation in publisher/subscriber mode, direct
communication between things
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4. More Than SCADA
IoT platforms cover plenty of automation system levels:
• Almost every IIoT platform operates at SCADA/HMI
level.
• Most platforms are able to solve MES and OEE tasks.
• Multiple platforms “feel all right” at ERP/EAM levels.
• In some cases, platform components enable SoftPLC
level, i.e. logic of controllers and IEC 61131-3 language
(FBD, LD, SFC, ST) runtime environment.
• There is a trend towards substituting DSC and niche
systems (e.g. AMR).
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5. IoT Platform Operation at PLC Level
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In Tibbo Project System hardware platform, AggreGate IoT Platform server acts
as a runtime environment providing data collection, storage, analysis, and
visualization at the controller level, as well as IEC 61131-3 (ST, LD, FBS, SFC)
algorithms execution in hard real time.
The server “feels all right” on Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone Black, other single-
board and industrial PCs, PLCs with Linux/Windows.

6. New Business Models
• Selling a service, not software, becomes commonplace.
• Paying not for time period/event count, but for the
service metrics (running hours, time saved on periodic
maintenance, etc.) will gain popularity.
• For setting up a service, a network (“tube”) and a server
(“cloud”) are needed. It automatically makes telecoms
the first potential IoT service providers.
• As in traditional IT, the value of data ownership in IoT
will increase compared to its simple transmission and
visualization.
• Investment in device development is decreasing, while
investment in platform development is increasing fast.
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7. Software of the Future Will Be Unified
• IoT platforms will take positions currently belonging to various lower
level software.
• The process will remind globalization of ERP systems that should be
able to do everything.
• It relates not only to a production sector, but to any other company
dealing with physical assets (agroholdings, retail, energy, oil and gas,
transport, and telecoms).
• Even in SCADA world, software will be offered as a service.
• Existing niche monitoring and management systems will either
transform into global solutions or exit the market.
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