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SCADA technology in the Internet of Things (the IoT)[edit]
A major stumbling block for full use of the Internet of Things (IoT) has been expressed by Jean-Louis Gassée (Apple initial alumni team, and BeOS co-founder). He asserts that the IoT has what he calls the "Basket of Remotes" problem, where hundreds of applications attempt to interface with hundreds of devices that don't share protocols for speaking with one another.[3]
While Gassée’s final vision includes self-configuration, a powerful intermediary step would be to have one application that can talk to many devices. At a high level, this “application that can talk to many devices” is a fair description of SCADA.
The primary difference between SCADA and IoT stems from the difference between M2M (Machine to Machine) and IoT. In an interview with Iot-Inc., Ron DeSerranno (CEO and Founder of B-Scada) says “We took our platform that was traditionally in very heavy Industry and we moved that out to the web… about 4 or 5 years ago so when we did the next evolution of our system, we made some changes to intentionally make it Internet-friendly, to have it HTML5-enabled and be able to host it off the private networks and out in the web.” He also says “In the IoT space, it could be sensors - but the data that you’re bringing in could also be weather data, it could be financial, you might be pulling information from a database. It’s a whole mash up of different types of information, not just hardware or exclusively hardware…Because we create an information model of the things that are being monitored, sort of like a contact in your telephone, that’s a little information model, virtualization of people you care about. So in our system you’ll go up and you’ll define what a sensor is to you, what properties are important on it, and you’ll essentially virtualize that asset up in our system.” [4]
In a recent report from Global Industry Analysts, Inc. that lists a handful of Key players in the Global Human Machine Interface (HMI) Solutions Market,[5] B-Scada is conspicuous as the only player that is applying their HMI/SCADA technology to the IoT, as evidenced by B-Scada’s membership in the Intel IoT Solutions Alliance.[6]
