Telecontrol

Industrial plants or plants in public infrastructure areas, such as water and wastewater management, are often spread across wide areas, sometimes even across national borders. The range of telecontrol products offers complete solutions with the following features:

• Connection of distributed process stations/Remote Terminal Units (RTUs) to one or more control centers
• Use of different public or private communication networks for monitoring and controlling the telecontrol substations
• Event-driven or cyclic exchange of process data including time stamp via telecontrol protocols IEC 60870, DNP3, SINAUT ST7 and TeleControl Basic
• Operating personnel have efficient control of the overall process
• Online access to the substations for diagnostics, remote programming and maintenance

TeleControl Basic

TeleControl Basic is a simple remote control, remote maintenance system as well as fault signaling system optimized for the use of public communication networks such as mobile wireless and Internet for connection to the substations.

It comprises the TeleControl Server Basic control center software and substations of the type SIMATIC S7-1200, ET 200SP and RTU3000C. In addition to communication between the control center and the substations, the system also enables internode communication between substations.

Small-scale applications with few outstations can be implemented, as well as large-scale plants comprising up to 5000 outstations.

IEC 60870, DNP3 and SINAUT ST7

From SIMATIC PCS 7, SIMATIC WinCC or non-Siemens control systems using OPC, outstations based on SIMATIC S7-1500, ET 200SP, S7-1200, S7-300/400 and RTU3000C can be monitored and controlled. The outstations and substations can communicate with each other as well as with one or more control centers. Telecontrol systems with telecontrol protocols such as IEC 60870, DNP3 or SINAUT S7 are consistently modular in design and highly flexible in use.

Setup of a telecontrol application based on an example configuration

Both telecontrol systems can be connected to a non-Siemens control center system (OPC client) via OPC.

• Secure and economical remote monitoring and control of process stations
• Global remote access to widely distributed machines and plants
• Quick and easy commissioning due to perfectly matched system components

More information is available on the Internet at:

http://www.siemens.com/telecontrol