i4scada

i4scada includes a low-code tool to create the visualization part. With this intuitive platform, you can create appealing process visualizations - without extensive and complicated HTML5 programming.

Using its modern and easy to learn user interface, “programming” becomes ”configuring”. With the help of drag-and-drop, the creation of visualization applications for web and mobile is possible without much training and without programming knowledge. This drastically reduces the engineering time.

At the same time, users are much more flexible: Thanks to the low-code approach, they can easily change and adapt created visualizations. This not only reduces software maintenance costs to a minimum, but also enables them to implement iterative prototyping and agile software development.

Create modern HTML5 dashboards without any programming knowledge

With its low-code platform, i4scada lets you easily create HTML5 visualizations via drag & drop. Additionally, you can create visualizations fully automated by importing JSON files. Those can be created in a prior system. The platform contains a variety of editing functions which you know from other graphical tools. Select symbols from a comprehensive library for your HMI, SCADA, and Analytics applications. You can easily add your own symbol libraries as well. Engineering teams only need one graphical editor, as the same tool can be used with i4scada and i4connected.

Make use of ready-to-use, extensive symbol libraries

The i4scada symbol library currently contains more than 1000 different HTML5 components and symbols. These include static symbols for process engineering and building management, backgrounds with color gradients and a variety of symbols for general use. You can extend the existing symbol libraries at any time according to your specific requirements.

With the help of switches and buttons, users can switch aggregates on and off and set values. Numerical and alphanumeric values can be entered and output in a freely definable display format. i4scada checks the plausibility of numerical values and physical units. Numerical values can be shown on a display scale, where you can freely select the scaling and color. The font and style of text displays are also freely selectable, as are the background and foreground colors.

Manage project databases

With the i4scada studio you can create, edit and manage your project databases.

This includes the configuration of the communication with the underlying physical devices, the creation and editing of all process variables, the parameterization of the i4scada historian and the i4scada alarm manager. Furthermore, you set up the user management, the various languages, the script libraries and the add-ons with the i4scada studio.

i4scada is an open system with an integrated standard interface for OPC DA and OPC UA to easily communicate with Ewon gateways. Other protocol types like Modbus are supported as well.

Your process visualizations can be switched to all common languages during operation. With the i4scada studio, you can supplement standard texts with project-specific texts and add new languages.

Store and manage process information

i4scada historian is an integral part of i4scada runtime. i4scada runtime collects process data almost in real time and stores it in the i4scada historian database. The storage of the data can be time controlled or triggered by process values and events. Thanks to the scalable architecture and integrated data compression algorithms, the process information is stored in an optimized way. As a result, the TCO is extremely low.

For further processing and analysis, the data can be transferred via existing interfaces to i4connected, Azure IoT and other systems. i4scada historian is optimized to use the latest hardware and Microsoft SQL Server features.

Trigger, display and forward online alarms

The i4scada alarm manager is an essential part of i4scada runtime. It links online process values in real time with the stored alarm rules to online alarms. The software classifies the alarms according to alarm groups, classes and ranges. You can either create the alarms in the i4scada studio or import them as CSV files.

The i4scada alarm manager outputs additional information to the alarms, such as alarm description, duration and status. Alarm processing routines and display options are easily defined. A context menu contains a variety of acknowledgement options. Users can, for example, group alarms into collective alarms and acknowledge them with or without comment input. Clear operator guidance, including the cause of the alarm, the effect and instructions on what to do, enables faults to be rectified quickly.

Reliable and direct error reporting

As soon as a malfunction occurs, the i4scada MessengerPro informs the responsible service personnel directly and safely. An automatic escalation management with acknowledgement of receipt ensures that the next employee in the reporting chain is informed immediately if there is no feedback. The tool takes into account absences due to illness and holidays as well as shift changes. Alarms can also be output as voice messages in the respective local language.

You can conveniently manage your users and on-call schedules with the software. For example, it is possible to combine the plans of different areas into an alarm group. When changes are made, the i4scada MessengerPro automatically adjusts the on-call schedules immediately – during operation.

With the help of documentation, evaluation and statistics functions, you also get a detailed overview of the frequency and causes of malfunctions as well as the efficiency of the initiated measures.