ZETRON 1708 - SCADA System Definition; Store and Forward Feature

Glossary
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RTU Type
A configuration setting. An RTU can be a Model 1708 or a
Model 1716.
SCADA
Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition. General term
for an industrial measurement, data gathering, and control
system. The system usually consists of a central host or
master, one or more field data gathering and control
devices, called remote terminal units, and software used to
monitor and control the remotely located field data
gathering and control devices.
SCADA program
Software used to monitor and control remotely located field
data gathering and control devices, e.g., LOOKOUT.
Scaling Factor
For accumulators, the numeric value associated with the
time factor.
Serial communications
Communication method where data is transferred one bit at
a time.
Slave
General SCADA term for the remote site data collection
and control device (RTU). The slave reports to the master,
the central control of the SCADA system.
Slot #
For Store and Forward radio transmissions, 10 slots or
blocks of addresses can be assigned to the store and
forward lookup table.
Source file
The human readable form of a computer program.
Store and forward
The ability of an RTU to receive messages from the
Controller and resend the message to another RTU and vice
versa.
Stored status
RTU status stored in a Controller and used to build
responses to MODBUS protocol queries.
Time Factor
For accumulators, the time factor is used to adjust the
samples-per-second accumulation to the custom values.