South West Water has selected battery-powered WITS data loggers from Servelec Technologies for a wastewater event duration monitoring (EDM) project which starts this month [November 2017].

The Seprol S2000nano devices will be installed to monitor sewer levels underneath the roads of Cornwall and Devon.

As the loggers are WITS certified they integrate directly with South West Water’s WITS enabled SCOPE SCADA and telemetry system, also provided by Servelec. The enterprise SCOPE SCADA and telemetry system deployed by […]

The WITS PSA Committee are pleased to announce that the WITS PSA Forums are available once again.

The WITS PSA member forums can now be accessed again from the WITS website using the Members’ Forum link (you must be a WITS member and logged-in to the WITS website). It should be possible to log in using the username and password you have always used for the forum. If your organisation is a WITS PSA member and you […]

WITS Forums – Service announcement and migration to new host

Following the first user meeting in June 2017, users requested that they have a method to continue discussions on line between meetings. These discussions should be private to the users. The current forum used by the WITS PSA and its members has been voluntarily managed by one of the PSA vendors representatives (Gavin Rawson). To avoid any conflicts of interest and with the help of Gavin, […]

2018 Plugfest Date Announcement

Following the last successful WITS Plugfest on May 17th 2017 (see the article on the WITS website to remind you), we would like to invite you to the next WITS Plugfest on Wednesday 17th January 2018.

As requested at the last Plugfest, we will be inviting more users this time around.  To facilitate this, the plugfest will be held in the same location and on the day before the WITS User Meeting, thus allowing […]

Making the workings of the PSAC more transparent

In late 2015, the membership of the WITS Protocol Standards Association (PSA) suggested that having more visibility of what the Protocol Standards Association Committee (PSAC) is doing would be good. In reply to this request, the Strategy Group of the PSAC did the following:

• Determine what the strategy objectives of the PSA should be. What objectives should the PSA have to ensure continued adoption of the protocol and […]
  

Northern Ireland Water

Telemetry Outstation Project

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 […]

The DNP User Group have issued a security notice (SN2017-001)

The WITS-PSAC would like to draw members attention to a security notice that has been issued by the DNP User Group.

Last year there was a cyber-attack against the Ukraine Power Grid using malware named as CrashOverride (also named as Industroyer).  The attackers spent some time analysing the structure of the Ukrainian SCADA system and then inserted the malware which took over, amongst other items, the protocol […]

We are pleased to announce that the Grundfos CIU 531 has achieved Self-Certified WITS DNP3 status.

The device has been tested by Grundfos to the WITS Test specification up to WITS Version 1.1.

The CIU 531 is a basic WITS-DNP3 supported IO device. It supports 3 Analog Input, 1 Analog Output, 4 Binary Input, 1 Binary Output and 1 Binary Counter.

For more details, please see the WITS Device Catalogue.