TeleControl Server Basic software for control centers

Siemens has now released V3.1 of its con­trol cen­ter soft­ware Tele­Con­trol Serv­er Basic. The new ver­sion pro­vides pro­tec­tion against data loss by buffer­ing data at the OPC UA inter­face. This new lev­el of data secu­ri­ty also ben­e­fits oper­a­tion of the soft­ware in com­bi­na­tion with Sine­ma Remote Con­nect, which enables sim­ple man­age­ment of all VPN (Vir­tu­al Pri­vate Net­work) tun­nels. The soft­ware is now also released for Win­dows Serv­er 2016 and com­mu­ni­cates over mod­u­lar RTUs based on the Simat­ic con­trollers and also with com­pact RTUs of the Simat­ic RTU3000C family.

Tele­Con­trol Serv­er Basic soft­ware can be used to mon­i­tor auto­mat­ed plants from a sin­gle con­trol cen­ter. Tele­Con­trol Serv­er Basic is used pre­dom­i­nant­ly in appli­ca­tions such as sewage and waste­water treat­ment plants, dis­trict heat­ing grids and for pow­er dis­tri­b­u­tion. Siemens has now released V3.1 of the soft­ware, which offers a num­ber of innovations.

One new fea­ture in Ver­sion 3.1 is a data buffer­ing fea­ture of the OPC inter­face, enabling data back­up in the event of a dropped con­nec­tion or a data burst between the Tele­Con­trol Serv­er Basic and OPC UA client (Open Plat­form Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Uni­fied Archi­tec­ture / machine-toma­chine com­mu­ni­ca­tion pro­to­col). Fur­ther enhanc­ing data secu­ri­ty, the soft­ware can now also be oper­at­ed in com­bi­na­tion with Sine­ma Remote Con­nect man­age­ment plat­form. Sine­ma Remote Con­nect offers the sim­ple han­dling and cre­ation of encrypt­ed VPN (Vir­tu­al Pri­vate Net­work) tun­nels, which are used for secured data trans­mis­sion between the RTUs (Remote Ter­mi­nal Units) and the con­trol center.

Reli­able routes of communication

Tele­Con­trol Serv­er Basic com­mu­ni­cates both with the com­pact Remote Ter­mi­nal Units of the Simat­ic RTU3000C fam­i­ly and with the mod­u­lar RTUs based on Simat­ic con­trollers. The under­ly­ing remote con­trol pro­to­col is Tele­Con­trol Basic. Suit­able com­mu­ni­ca­tion proces­sors (CPs) are offered for Simat­ic S7-1200 and Simat­ic ET 200SP.Version V3.1, which has also been released for Win­dows Serv­er 2016, also sup­ports con­nec­tion of the new Simat­ic RTU3010C, which is linked to the con­trol cen­ter via an external.