eSCADA Telemetry Solution to Provide Real-Time Information

Severn Trent Water have awarded CSE Servelec’s Information Systems group a contract valued at £2.75m to design and install an Enterprise SCADA solution for the Telemetry Replacement and Integration (TeRI) programme.

Severn Trent Water, one of the UK's leading water companies, serves over eight million people across the heart of the UK. The eSCADA system will provide Severn Trent Water with flexible collection of telemetry data, a sophisticated real-time fault tracking and the ability to distribute information to other business applications within Severn Trent, providing Severn Trent the ability to move towards the goal of being a Telemetry Enabled Business.

CSE Servelec’s solution will be based on their well established Telemetry and SCADA suite of software, SCOPE-X, implementing a region-wide distributed real-time database seamlessly united to an ORACLE long term historic database.

The SCOPE-X system will incorporate a sophisticated real-time alarm management engine which will form an integral part of the eSCADA system and will provide specific alarm tracking enabling improved asset management; a significant project driver specified by Severn Trent.

SCOPE-X is widely used in the Utility Industries and in other wide area data acquisition applications such as the Environment Agency’s SWANTEL project and National Grid Transco’s Network Manager.

Phase A of the project, valued at £200k, covers the development and production of a design specification to confirm that the proposed high level design meets Severn Trent’s requirements.

The Information Systems project team will handle all phases of the implementation and commissioning to deliver a high availability, fully resilient, wide area telemetry system to meet all of Severn Trents’ requirements.