Remote offshore site to onshore Control roomswhat distance?
Remote offshore site to onshore Control rooms
Remote offshore site to onshore Control rooms
Sorry guys, What I'm trying to accomplish is Visualization of a DCS data from a remote site to two different control rooms.where at? in the gulf of mexico? if so, companies like rignet or tampnet may already have microwave backhauls that you can jump on.
You have given basically no info, so its hard to give a solution if we dont know the problem. I think setting up a microwave shot offshore for someone who cant formulate more than a very short sentence on what they are trying to accomplish will be a very tough feat. I believe your best bet is a vsat system. Get a VPN setup between your controlroom and the VSAT provider and keep it all on a private network.
Thanks for your input, I do appreciate.OPC is an application level protocol. TCP/IP is a transport / internet level protocol. They are not things that talk directly to each other. An OPC server for a particular model of DCS might use TCP/IP yes, but they don't "talk" to each other.
If they have an existing network then I'd speak to whoever manages that and see if you can set up a separate VLAN for the control system.
For future reference, specifying a microwave system is reasonably involved especially for an application over water. You need to assess pathloss, rainfade, fresnel zone obstructions etc. Its not something you just have a crack at without some training and experience. Engage a specialist.
Thanks Bro, Distance is really far as it is far offshore platform, Micro wave comes in here.Microwave is typically used for long distance. How long are you talking about? Both latency and throughput aren't the best with microwave so unless you have to go that route, consider wifi instead.
You are jumping way ahead, figure out your physical layer first. For long distance SCADA type comm, typically people use modbus or DNP. DNP is especially band-width efficient. For OPC, I would consider using a OPC UA tunneller for avoid the whole DCOM Hell.