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03-May-2017 DNP3 TB2016-005 information for WITS members

The publication

The DNP User Group published the following news on December 28^th 2016:

The DNP Technical Committee has released the following Technical Bulletin (TB):

TB2016-005 Indicating Invalid Floating-point Data in Object Group 0 Variations

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 […]

By Stuart Combellack|2020-11-23T21:04:15+00:00May 3rd, 2017|News, Release News, Uncategorized|0 Comments

03-May-2017 DNP3 TB2016-004 information for WITS members

The publication

The DNP User Group published the following news on December 2^nd 2016:

The DNP Technical Committee has released the following Technical Bulletin (TB):

TB2016-004 Updated Unsolicited Reporting Requirements for Constrained Environments

The TB (dated November 29^th 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 […]

By Stuart Combellack|2020-11-23T21:04:20+00:00May 3rd, 2017|News, Release News|0 Comments

27-Apr-2017 Forthcoming Plugfest

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 […]

By Ed Oborn|2020-11-23T21:04:26+00:00April 27th, 2017|News, PSA News|0 Comments

27-Apr-2017 WITS Master Station Licencing

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An overview of WITS-DNP3 Master Station Licensing for End Users and Vendors – V1.0 April 17

By Ed Oborn|2020-11-23T21:05:23+00:00April 27th, 2017|News, PSA News|0 Comments

25-Apr-2017 WITS-IOT progress

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 […]

By Ed Oborn|2020-11-23T21:05:28+00:00April 25th, 2017|News, PSA News|0 Comments

18-Jan-2017 Anglian Water now LIVE with WITS

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 […]

By Stuart Combellack|2020-11-23T21:05:33+00:00January 18th, 2017|PSA News, Uncategorized|0 Comments

04-Jan-2017 New WITS Technical Bulletins Published (TBs 56-60)

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 […]

By Stuart Combellack|2020-11-23T21:05:37+00:00January 4th, 2017|Release News|0 Comments

26-Nov-2016 WITS in WIPAC Monthly

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

By Stuart Combellack|2020-11-23T21:05:42+00:00November 26th, 2016|News, PSA News|0 Comments

25-Nov-2016 Renew your WITS-PSA Subscription Online!

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 […]

By Stuart Combellack|2020-11-23T21:05:47+00:00November 25th, 2016|News, PSA News, Uncategorized|0 Comments

21-Nov-2016 Application for Verification and Self-Certification

Earlier this year the Committee announced that testing has to be done using the WITS Test Specification when applying for Verification or Self-Certification of vendor devices.

Applicants should note that the Test Specification instructs the tester to present their test results by completing the tables in the WITS Test Specification itself.

Update application forms are available for download from the web site.

The WITS Test Specification is available for purchase as before from the WITS Secretary.

By Stuart Combellack|2020-11-23T21:05:52+00:00November 21st, 2016|News, PSA News|0 Comments