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Gas companies make every effort in order to achieve RTBI as a viable advantage. The business IT communications, business requests and SCADA and PCS are congregating. Joining the union of this communication is the amplified threat of cyber-rate in the SCADA and PC environments.

The SCADA together with the Process Control Security dispute has to be assessed based upon the objective, this is to find out whether the installations is for securing the present installation or to install a whole new system.

With the speedy expansion of the industrial fields during the 80's as well as the 90's, most of the installations as the time were not designed with security in mind. Driven by the ability to work as one together with the present time commerce acumen the installations of the 80's and 90's have overtime become more incorporated with the business IT set of connections.

Then the data gets processed and managed in human readable format. The data being processed (mainly the main and important parameters) is displayed at SCADA screens in form of graphical representation along with textual representation. This interface is known as Human Machine Interface (HMI) or Man Machine Interface (MMI).

Thus, it is evident that SCADA screens are important as only at them the data can be read in human readable format and any human intervention can take place at this interface only.

Now many kind of software have been developed which have made creation of SCADA screens hassle free. These software are platform dependent and generally are windows based. These software are easy to use and have made process of development of SCADA screens faster and efficient as they allow import of bitmap images as background of SCADA screen.

If the project encompasses large area to be surveyed and human surveillance in not possible in such case, then one needs long distance SACDA radio networks to be employed for sending the data collected from remote sensors to central unit.

When area under surveillance is hundreds of kilometres such as in case of petroleum pipeline, the only feasible solution is long distance Scada GSM. Most important requisite for long range Scada GSMs is ability to transmit the data to long distance.

For such purposes, repeaters are used as line of sight is limited to 5 miles. Repeaters are radio transmitters which act as boosters for signals as signals tend to get weak after travelling certain amount of distance. Thus repeaters boost the attenuated signals and again transmit them to next repeater/ central system.

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