Software platform enhances Scada
Elutions is launching Controlmaestro 2008, a new site-level automation software platform that dramatically improves efficiency and effectiveness for developers and users.
Controlmaestro is a state-of-the-art software platform for site-wide automation that is open, complete and scalable. It builds upon 20 years of Wizcon Systems' Scada application experience and web expertise with the field-proven, time-tested and reliable Wizcon Supervisor (now in its ninth generation) and 15 years of Elutions' M2M (machine-to-machine) enterprise asset and energy management experience and wireless technologies.
With Controlmaestro, a high degree of productivity is achieved using an object-oriented approach to creating an application - the developer can therefore avoid repetitive time-consuming, labour-intensive and error-prone tasks and instead think in logical terms of how real-life objects, devices and processes interact. This frees up time to focus on user friendliness and mobility, or security for mission-critical industrial, commercial, governmental and utilities applications.
Beyond traditional supervisory visualisation, communication and control functionality, Controlmaestro also provides web-enabled remote access, secured enterprise architecture, enhanced engineering development productivity, user mobility, and wide-area wireless control to reduce costs and improve services. This new site-level automation platform enables seamless migration from the large installed base of Wizcon Supervisor applications worldwide.
With the Audit Tool, Controlmaestro's cross-reference utility, new developers will find it easier to take over and analyse existing Controlmaestro applications. This helps provide comprehensive information on the structure of an application, and generate personalised reports of the application structure. The Audit Tool makes it easy to find all the objects used in the application, or to find in which module a particular object is used. Common benefits include easy upgrade of an application that was developed by someone else, simpler maintenance, optimised engineering and project efficiency, accelerated development time while minimising the opportunity for human error, as well as reduced development costs.
With Controlmaestro's advanced web platform, supervision and control can be performed anytime, anywhere through an internet connection. No specific development is needed to deploy a web application that includes, for example control panels, charts and event viewers. This high-performance web functionality is user-friendly with a self-configurable web desktop. It is based on the latest Java technology and functions across multiple platforms and browsers, while offering security from viruses and data corruption.
Most of the web features are available on PDAs, smartphones and panel PCs with the help of the Elutions mobility kit. With the Mobile Application Manager, customers can select the elements that they want to see on a PDA and configure each of them - for example, setting the element size. Clicking the Launch button enables direct visualisation of the application rendering on a PDA.
Controlmaestro will be available in January 2008 from Elutions Europe and its authorised distributors worldwide.
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