This Portuguese school system shows how to optimize and control HVAC and electrical systems for energy management and maintenance programs to provide maximum benefit. Portugal is currently in the ...

The ease with which TCP/IP enables one to connect networks has been a huge boon for the power generation industry. Far-flung operations can be hooked up to the network and controlled remotely. And ...

SCADA systems are taking on a bigger and more business-critical role as oil and gas producers modernize their operations in the digital oilfield. The systems are no longer mere operations-monitoring ...

SCADA systems are a key operational tool that manufacturers rely on to visualize, troubleshoot and improve their operations. After all, it’s the crucial connection between the process control systems ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. Little-known fact: The power plant able to generate the most ...

The Internet of Things needs technology to connect people to machines and processes. From the operators on the plant floor to the execs in the C-suites, supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA ...

A risk assessment, combined with a vulnerability assessment and threat scenario analysis, specifically identifies cyber vulnerabilities that may require elimination from a pipeline system. Elimination ...

Although organizations continue to increase IT security spending to address the rising number of damaging, high profile security breaches, cyber attacks against industrial targets—including power ...

A water utility in Illinois was reportedly hacked in a cyber attack traced back to Russia. The motives arent clear, but the act alone demonstrates how vulnerable our SCADA (Supervisory Control and ...

It's been seven years since the game-changer Stuxnet worm was unearthed and thrust the industrial control sector to a new reality where cyberattacks could sabotage even air-gapped physical plant ...