As SCADA systems grow and take advantage of Ignition’s unlimited client licensing model, managing these numerous clients has become more and more challenging. Join Piedmont Automation as they discuss and detail their SCADA Client Manager that allows IT & Maintenance personnel to quickly deploy clients anywhere in the facility, from management offices to the KPI monitors mounted high in the air in production areas.

2. Leveraging New Technologies to
Improve Automation Systems
Developing a
SCADA Client Management System

3. Bob Worth
President Director of Information Systems
teampiedmont.com
Michael Schmid

4. Our Company
Piedmont Automation was established in 1999
as a systems integration company in the
Southeast region of the United States.
For more than two decades, our talented technical
staff has accumulated more than 500 years of
combined experience and built a reputation
delivering innovative and reliable solutions.
This is done using leading-edge technologies to
develop automation solutions in some of the
most demanding environments imaginable.
Bob Worth
President

5. Our Qualifications

6. SCADA Client
Management System
Director of Information Systems
Michael Schmid

7. Problem:
As SCADA systems grow and take advantage of Ignition’s
unlimited client licensing model, managing these clients
becomes more and more challenging.
Many clients used in manufacturing facilities are inaccessible
and are often mounted in the ceiling structures above the plant
floor (ie: KPI monitors).
The sheer number of clients being managed makes IT support
and maintenance very time consuming and physically
challenging.

8. Typical Architecture:

9. Unlimited Clients:

10. Physical Obstacles:

11. PC Solutions:
Relative Cost:
▪ PC = $1,000
▪ [50] Clients
$50,000

12. Thin Client Solutions:
Relative Cost:
▪ PC = $600 ea
▪ MS RDP 50 user CAL = $7500
▪ Thinmanager 50 = $60,000
▪ [50] Clients
$97,000

13. RPi Solution #1:
Relative Cost:
▪ PC = $100
▪ [50] Clients
$5,000

14. RPi Solution #2:
Relative Cost:
▪ PC = $100
▪ [50] Clients
$5,000

15. RPi Solution #3:
Relative Cost:
▪ PC = $100
▪ [50] Clients
$5,000

16. Linux OS:

17. Windows OS:

18. CMS:
Installation

19. CMS:
Rebooting

20. CMS:
Ignition
Project

21. Our Experience:

23. contact@teampiedmont.com