Recursion Software's (www.recursionsw.com/solutions/SCADA-Aware_Mobile-intro.html) SCADA-Aware Mobile application provides alarm notification to Blackberry smartphones, with support for iPhones and Android coming sometime this year. According to the company, it eliminates many limitations of current SCADA alarm notification systems in the market.
Features and benefits of SCADA-Aware Mobile include:
Reliable alarm message delivery through "push-pull" technology
Secure access to real-time data
GPS-based alarm delivery
Elimination of duplicate responses due to immediate visibility of who owns the alarm
Regulatory and procedural compliance through complete alarm life-cycle audit
All interaction with alarms on a single mobile device. No need to use a browser
Mobile devices working as both client and server
Users can query and access current data from their mobile device
Historical and related SCADA data delivered to the mobile device along with the alarm
One-button acknowledgement
Transparent switching between multiple mobile networks
Automatic, flexible escalation setting for each possible alarm
Alarm specific delay definitions
Integration into corporate security policies
Non-intrusive implementation with existing SCADA system
