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News Release from: ARC Advisory Group | Subject: SCADA in Water
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
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SCADA market in water and wastewater
The worldwide market for SCADA systems in the water and wastewater industries was $212 million in 2006 and is forecasted to be over $275 million in 2011, a CAGR of 5.4%
The far-reaching impact of technology and the quantum change in the way companies are restructuring and streamlining business processes are transforming the global Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) market The latest SCADA systems encompass a new generation of technology components
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 21 Nov 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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"These new generations of SCADA components are easier to integrate and provide vastly improved capabilities and functionalities," says Research Director Russ Novak, the principal author of the ARC report SCADA Systems for the Water and Wastewater Industry: "SCADA systems are now being considered in a wide range of applications and true business processes for a variety of purposes, including business performance management".
ARC has analysed the SCADA market by geographic region, project size, and component type, including hardware, software, and services.
The underlying technology that facilitates traditional SCADA functionality has changed dramatically.
For water utilities, emerging technology is enabling SCADA to be tightly integrated to the domain of business processes, creating an improved value proposition for its usage.
SCADA systems bring improved performance to geographically dispersed assets and provide a framework for real time performance management on a regional, or even global, basis.
The water utility infrastructure will utilise the enhanced functionalities of SCADA to improve its core business processes.
The water and wastewater industries in developed regions are using SCADA as a core technology to support new business processes in response to changing industry dynamics and the need for large scale upgrades of existing infrastructure.
Infusion of newer SCADA technology can optimise the required level of capital expenditures for upgrades of aging infrastructure.
Developing regions are seeing improving economies and thus are looking to either upgrade or install new water and wastewater treatment and distribution systems.
SCADA is used to link these geographically separated facilities.
SCADA will be at the core of technology adoptions as the world economy strengthens, and as the industry moves to improve business processes to meet the growing demand and economic challenges that privatisation and public-private partnering of the industry requires.
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