About Stuart Combellack

Senior Software Engineer, Technolog Limited.

20-Nov-2019 A Report on the WITS Plugfest of November 2019

Introduction

The Plugfests are a great way for vendors to test out their WITS devices’ latest firmware release against the current WITS compliant Master Stations, whilst also allowing users of the WITS devices to come along and see some of this testing first hand. Previous Plugfests had been held in places such as Durham, Nottingham, Reading and Warrington, but the most recent Plugfest was held at Northern Irelands National Football Stadium – Windsor Park on the […]

By |2020-11-23T20:59:26+00:00February 5th, 2020|News, PSA News|0 Comments

25-Apr-2019 WITS Forum Replacement

A change to WITS members’ interactions

The WITS forum is being retired in favour of using Slack

During the rollout and continued maintenance of the WITS-DNP3 protocol, the WITS-PSA introduced a forum to WITS. The forum is a website which allows members to post and read messages, also providing email notifications when new messages are posted.

The forum was heavily used by the WITS technical teams for the review and update of the Technical Bulletins which drove WITS-DNP3 […]

By |2020-11-23T20:59:45+00:00April 30th, 2019|News, PSA News|0 Comments

03-Mar-2019 When WITS is not WITS

WITS is not WITS?

When the original development of the WITS-DNP3 protocol was underway, some thought went into the selection of the WITS abbreviation so that we would not clash with other uses, which might be in the same area. In those days WITS stood for Water Industry Telemetry Standards, as the development of that early protocol was led by the UK Water Industry. Since then we have seen increased interest […]

By |2020-11-23T21:00:35+00:00April 30th, 2019|News, PSA News|0 Comments

28-Sep-2018 SCADA World Summit: WITS Presented

The 8th SCADA World Summit 2018, London, May 7-10

The SCADA World Summit series of conferences are held in different parts of the world. Jim Baker, a WITS Governance Committee member and member of the DNP3 Technical Committee, was invited to present at the 2018 conference in London.

Jim’s presentation comprised two parts: the first part was a workshop on the development of the WITS protocol culminating in the WITS-IoT project. This was received well and generated […]

By |2020-11-23T21:00:55+00:00September 28th, 2018|News, PSA News|0 Comments

29-Jun-2018 October Plugfest (“OctoberFest”) Date Announcement

October 2018 Plugfest Date Announcement

Following the successful WITS Plugfest in January 2018 (see the article on the WITS website ), I would like to invite you to the next WITS Plugfest hosted by Thames Water in Reading on Tuesday 9th October 2018.

The plugfest in January was the first time we opened the event to both WITS vendors and WITS users, this was successful and will be repeated again this October. To facilitate this, the plugfest will […]

By |2020-11-23T21:01:06+00:00June 29th, 2018|PSA News|0 Comments

18-Jun-2018 NIW WITS Telemetry Outstation Rollout

NI Water Telemetry provides monitoring (and in some cases control) of approximately 4,500 clean and wastewater assets. Telemetry not only provides alarm annunciation, local monitoring and control but also provides regulatory and operational data. There is a reliance on accurate and timely data being provided for business, operational purposes and for the security of customer water and wastewater facilities.

At each asset, signals are marshalled into a local Telemetry outstation e.g. pump status, valve status, levels, […]

By |2020-11-23T21:01:11+00:00June 18th, 2018|News, PSA News|0 Comments
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