Scan Rates, Scan Groups and the Deadband That Halves Your Traffic

A four-column table listing the controller task, the device Scan Mode, the tag Scan Rate and the client group rate against what each controls, its range and when it wins, with the device Scan Mode rows highlighted

A SCADA client on the TR-14 line subscribes to 1180 tags in one group at 250 ms, which people write down as 4720 value updates a second. Over an hour the server actually delivered 3,832,580 notifications, and 3,744,000 of those came from 260 analogue tags, most of which were sitting still. The 920 digital and … Read more

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