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SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) has enrooted itself in our daily lives in every sphere whether is power control, whether control, factories or mass transit control that now it has become integrated part for a secure working environment. With the increasing realm, the scope also widens and that has happen in this filed too.

With the growth in SCADA system, the number of people who are efficient in management of these systems has also increased or in other words, various SCADA engineer job opportunities have sprung up in recent times. SCADA engineer job profile can be divided into many categories based upon the area they are perfect to handle at.

The brain of SCADA system lies in Remote Terminal Units (also termed as RTU). Remote terminal units are composed of logic converters which can be programmed easily. Remote terminal unit is generally set as per the requirements, but mostly RTU requires human intervention in case of emergency or any extreme conditions. But in general, most of SCADA system behaves as closed loop systems thus require minimal human intervention.

One of key features about SCADA systems is their ability of real time monitoring of entire system. This is accomplished by data acquisitions from sensors viz meter reading, status of sensor etc that are sent to central system at regular time period depending upon the system. Along with data acquisition another function performed by SCADA system is to display the data collected from various sensors in human readable format so that any time human can intervene as the need arises.

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SCADA, acronym for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition have been proved as one of revolutionary technology which has all together changed face of automated tasks.

Due to integration of SCADA systems with automated tasks, these have become more reliable. Though being a supervisory system, SCADA systems are powerful systems which control the flow of automated tasks on its own and without any need for human to intervene. Due to these reasons, SCADA is becoming more and more popular.

As the need for human intervention is almost zero and SCADA system incites predefined actions when the state of system changes or when value of any parameter changes beyond permissible levels, these have found wide applications now.