Unified SCADA Interface for Anomaly Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional mechanisms for data storage, retention, and presentation in computerized systems are inefficient, leading to data loss, bottlenecks, and lack of organization, which reduces task efficiency and wastes resources.
Innovation Solution
A novel asset management and visualization framework that automatically generates and dynamically updates an interactive user interface to detect and report anomalies in distributed SCADA systems, providing a unified interface for data monitoring and control across platforms, enabling contextualized visualization and filtering of asset data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional mechanisms are used for data storage and presentation, then existing systems can operate, but data loss and inefficiency occur
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously monitors SCADA data streams and provides real-time feedback about anomalies to operators through the unified interface, enabling proactive response to data integrity issues while maintaining operational efficiency
Solution Approach 2:
The framework automatically detects, classifies, and reports anomalies without requiring manual intervention, allowing the system to self-monitor and self-report issues, thereby improving both reliability and productivity
2Loss of information
If more data is logged into databases and servers, then more information is available, but bottlenecks and resource drainage increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the critical anomaly information from the vast amount of SCADA data and presents it through the unified interface, filtering out unnecessary data processing and reducing resource consumption while maintaining data availability for issue resolution
Solution Approach 2:
The framework applies different processing quality levels to different data streams, focusing computational resources only on data that requires anomaly detection, thereby reducing overall resource consumption while maintaining information availability where needed
3Reliability
If operators review all data to find anomalies, then comprehensive monitoring is achieved, but time consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically extracts and isolates anomaly data from the complete SCADA dataset, presenting only relevant information to operators through the unified interface, thereby maintaining monitoring completeness while significantly reducing operator time requirements
Solution Approach 2:
The framework performs preliminary anomaly detection and classification automatically before operators review the data, pre-sorting and prioritizing issues so that operators only need to address confirmed anomalies rather than reviewing all data manually
4Ease of operation
If a unified interface is implemented across platforms, then ease of operation improves, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The framework implements a universal unified interface that can access and display data from multiple different SCADA systems and platforms through standardized protocols, allowing one interface to serve multiple functions across diverse systems while managing complexity through abstraction layers
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AI summary
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content providing, searching and/or hosting systems supported by or configured with devices, servers and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework that automatically generates and dynamically updates an interactive user interface (UI) that comprises digital information related to multiple processes and operations. The UI provides uniform functionality across platforms, devices and/or services being utilized to view and/or interact with the UI and/or interface objects (e.g., tiles) included therein. The UI provides a dynamic mechanism for assets to be controlled, as well as mechanisms to compare the data of different assets by which certain assets can be subsequently manipulated. The UI enables the detection, and contextualized visualization of operational data for assets and/or locations in distributed supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems in Cloud connected environments.