Welcome to the ClearSCADA SCADAPack 50 Driver Guide.
This driver is an advanced driver. It provides additional functionality to enable ClearSCADA to interface with specific supported devices using a particular protocol. To interact successfully with such devices, you need to:
- Install and run the driver
- Ensure that the driver is licensed
- Configure the required database items and settings on the driver
- Ensure that the database items (and any database items on which they depend) have valid, saved, configuration and are 'In Service'.
The SCADAPack 50 driver adds functionality to ClearSCADA, enabling it to communicate with SCADAPack 50 devices. To enable communication, the SCADAPack 50 driver needs to be installed, licensed and configured to run on the ClearSCADA system.
The SCADAPack 50 device is a wireless data logger. It uses GSM SMS text messages to communicate with ClearSCADA. For more information, see SCADAPack 50 and SMS Messaging and see Short Message Service in the ClearSCADA Guide to Advanced Drivers.
NOTE: The SCADAPack 50 device is also known as the Wade 310 or the Brio.
The SCADAPack 50 device is battery powered. It is suited to remote, isolated sites, as it is not dependent on a site’s power supply or infrastructure.
Typical applications include:
- Remote measurement of river, borehole or tank levels
- Remote measurement of gas storage pressure.
The SCADAPack 50 device features include:
- Acquisition and logging of various physical measurements with time stamping (for example, metering, voltages and temperatures). After taking readings, the device implements its alarm detection function.
- 4 digital inputs and 4 analog inputs to obtain data from analog or digital sensors or 8 remote points that are connected using RS485.
- Periodic GSM SMS transmission of the logged data back to the SCADA master station.
- Operation in two modes: Sleep mode and Awake mode.
Sleep mode is a low-power mode, in which the device is mostly inactive. The device operates in Sleep mode for much of the time to save energy. However, in Sleep mode the device provides for real-time detection of changes in the status of digital inputs.
You can activate Awake mode by applying a small magnet to the device. For more information see the documentation supplied with the device. The data logger can activate Awake mode when a change occurs on the status of one digital input, depending on the configuration settings of the digital inputs.
- Operating diagnostics. For example, battery voltage level and GSM signal strength.
Typically, you commission a SCADAPack 50 device with:
- A PC running an application called Kervisu
- A USB infrared (IrDA) connection from the PC to the device.
When you have commissioned the device, you then need to configure the ClearSCADA database items to represent the device (see Configure SCADAPack 50 Devices in ClearSCADA).
For more information, see the topics that are listed in the gray footer section at the bottom of this topic. Select the relevant entry to display the topic that you require.
However, we recommend that you start by reading the SCADAPack 50 Quick Start Tutorial. This tutorial guides you through creating a basic working configuration of:
- A single SCADAPack 50 device
- Various SCADAPack 50 driver database items.
Once you have completed the working configuration, the tutorial also describes how to test the communication link between ClearSCADA and the device.