VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

SCADA system helps Ahmedabad water department to save Rs 6 cr. on electricity bill. At a time when other metropolitan cities are not getting enough water supply due to breakdown in the pipeline network, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has been giving presentations to other urban local bodies on how its water department saved Rs 6 crore last year on the electricity bill. AMC’s water department gives credit to Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) not only for the saving but also for utilizing 23 million liter per day (MLD) water that was going to waste. The project includes monitoring of water quantity, quality and energy parameters of 148 water distribution centers, four french wells and four water treatment plants. We will add 51 water distribution centers in the system,” says Jagdish Patel, City Engineer. He added, “After one-year monitoring on the system, we found that we have saved Rs 6 crore as electricity bill and also utilized 23 MLD wate...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Trend Micro Inc. has announced that the software used in SCADA environments came under renewed scrutiny, as attack code exploiting dozens of serious vulnerabilities in widely used programs, was published. Programs sold by Siemens, Iconics, 7-Technologies, Datac, and Control Microsystems were apparently affected. In some cases, the flaws may be used to remotely execute code when the so-called supervisory control and data acquisition software is installed on machines connected to the internet. Two separate organizations released the code. The published information includes proof-of-concept exploit code for at least 34 vulnerabilities in widely used SCADA programs. SCADA is actually refers to any control system. If breached, it may pose a threat to national security, or perhaps just affect a manufacturing line. Protection for SCADA Networks needs to reflect the actual setting in which it is used. For More Details See www.varindia.com