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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]