As members of the WITS PSA you may wish to consider attending this briefing on Cyber Security for OT/IoT. The briefing is to be held in London on Thursday 18th May 2017. The briefing is hosted by Tech UK and includes speakers from the Department for Culture, Media and Support, the Department for Homeland Security, ARM and the IoT Security Foundation. For those with long […]
The DNP User Group published the following news on December 28th 2016:
The DNP Technical Committee has released the following Technical Bulletin (TB):
TB2013-004 introduced some new Object Group 0 Variations that are used to report GPS data from an outstation (latitude and longitude). Questions arose about how an outstation should use these objects if it cannot get a GPS fix to the required number of […]
The DNP User Group published the following news on December 2nd 2016:
The DNP Technical Committee has released the following Technical Bulletin (TB):
The TB (dated November 29th 2016) makes minor changes to the DNP3 specification, describing that outstations may not always be able to communicate “immediately” due to constraints outside of the DNP3 protocol.
How does this affect WITS users?
This has no impact on WITS users.
How does this […]
27-Apr-2017 The WITS Plugfest is approaching
The WITS PSA will be hosting the first WITS Plugfest for some time on Wednesday May 17th 2017. The Plugfest is an opportunity for Field Device vendors and Master Station vendors to meet and connect their respective systems to demonstrate that they work against the standard. Vendors have a chance to iron out any problems that exist in the standard or their software by working with other’s during the day […]
A technical group nominated by the WITS PSA has made great progress on the design of WITS-IOT. At the WITS Expo last year we explained the need for WITS-IOT and how we were building it on top of established IOT technologies such as MQTT. We also demonstrated a prototype built with Raspberry Pi and Node-Red.
Now more work has been done on the protocol design, adding more of the functionality built […]
Anglian Water are pleased to announce that the first Anglian Water WITS outstation (Servelec S2000 Micro) went live on their Schneider ClearSCADA telemetry master station in December 2016.
They had a small but dedicated team of internal engineers supported by Servelec, and Mark and Neil from Terzo Digital working extremely hard to get them to this position.
The team went though a steep learning curve and in the spirit of co-operation and sharing knowledge they will feed […]
Today, the WITS-PSA has published the final results of many months of work, standardising some important new features into WITS-DNP3. These include recommendations for operating WITS-DNP3 in an optimised manner and transients recording (high speed recording and triggering data send after an incident condition). The updated Technical Bulletins are as follows:
TB #56 – Defining how to use WITS-DNP3 in an optimised manner.
TB #57 – Adding incident logs and significant change logs (transients recording).
TB #58 – Adding […]
WIPAC (Water Industry Process Automation and Control) is a cross-industry group whose aim is to promote greater and better targeted use of instrumentation, process control and automation, in order to improve the efficiency of water & wastewater networks and treatment.
In the latest WIPAC newsletter, the editor Oliver Grievson has written a great article about ‘Smart Water’ entitled ‘How does the Water Industry make “smart” Business as Usual?’. The article can be read
WITS-PSA members can now easily renew their subscription online
The WITS-PSA has partnered with PayPal to enable online subscription renewals. WITS-PSA corporate members can now easily access PayPal to pay the annual subscription fee by clicking on the “Renew Your Membership Online” link under the “Members” menu.
PayPal allows users to pay with an existing PayPal balance or any major debit/credit card.
The WITS-PSA has made this move in response to membership requests to expand the number […]
