Assam Don Bosco University, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering held a lecture on “SCADA and Availability Based Tariff (ABT)” by Prof. Jatin Baishya, AGM, AEGCL at its Azara Campus, 29 March 2014.

SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) is a system operating with coded signals over communication channels so as to provide control of remote equipment (using typically one communication channel per remote station).

The supervisory system may be combined with a data acquisition system by adding the use of coded signals over communication channels to acquire information about the status of the remote equipment

for display or for recording functions. It is a type of Industrial Control System (ICS).

The ICS are computer-controlled systems that monitor and control industrial processes that exist in the physical world. SCADA systems historically distinguish themselves from other ICS systems by being large-scale processes that can include multiple sites, and large distances.