News from the Protocol Standards Association.
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 […]
On Tuesday 9th October 2018 at the Green Park Conference centre in Reading, WITS held another WITS-DNP3 Protocol plugfest. The event was kindly hosted by Russ Wheadon of Thames Water. This plugfest built on the success of the January 2018 plugfest which was hosted by Jerry Trowbridge of Northumbrian Water; you can read more on that plugfest here. In a similar way to the January meeting, a WITS User Meeting was planned […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
We have made some small adjustments to our website which we thought you should be informed of. Those adjustments are:
After the success of the last WITS-DNP3 protocol plugfest in May 2017, a further plugfest was arranged for Wednesday January 17th 2018. Jerry Trowbridge of Northumbrian Water kindly booked the excellent Sjovoll Centre in Pity Me, close to Durham and the Northumbrian Water offices for both the plugfest and user meeting (which was held the day after). On the day, two large meeting rooms were joined together to provide a huge space in […]
Following increased interest from industries other than UK water in the WITS DNP3 protocol, the WITS PSA has decided to broaden the coverage of WITS from “Water Industry Telemetry Standards” to “Worldwide Industrial Telemetry Standards”.
Consequently, the WITS logo has been updated to reflect this change as shown below and on our updated website.
The logo change:
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WITS-DNP3 Vendors and users from across the UK have come together at the Sjovoll Centre, Durham. Everyone has brought their latest hardware, firmware and software to test WITS-DNP3 implementations. Engineers from Servelec, Schneider, Xylem, Pulsar, Technolog, Metasphere, Brodersen and Softing are here among others to test and improve their systems.
We have representatives from a number of WITS user organisations and their consultants to assist and oversee the work.
WITS-IoT will be presented and […]
The WITS PSA maintains a ticketing system in which all issues raised against the WITS PSA are recorded. These issues can be, for example, issues related to the WITS-DNP3 protocol implementation, issues related to user configuration of their systems, issues of documentation or suggestions for improvement The system acts as a central repository, ensuring that no issues are lost. […]
