Our software development team created VTScada to function differently from other common HMI products. After 25 years of proven installations around the world, we believe that our approach is fundamentally better for monitoring and controlling mission critical systems. Below are some of the obvious and not so obvious ways that VTScada stands out in its field.
- More Integrated Features = Less Configuration Time
- Application Version Control
- Advanced Configuration Management
- True Server Redundancy & Automatic-failover
- Enhanced Historian Tag
- Real-time Online Configuration
- Extensive Library of Standard & Proprietary Device Drivers, in addition to OPC & DDE
- Retentive Totalizer & Counter Tags
- Real-time Monitoring of System Architecture
- Networked Electronic Operator’s Logbook
- Support for Multiple Operating Systems
- Best-in-Class Customer Service
More Integrated Features = Less Configuration Time
Most HMI software products require extensive setup to integrate components such as:
- SCADA telemetry tools including a best-in-class polling driver
- Graphics library
- Report generator
- Real-time/historical data logging & trending
- Security
- Alarms manager
- Optional Alarm Dialer, Internet Client/Server, OPC Server, ODBC Server and WAP Server
VTScada minimizes your integration time by integrating them all for you. Upgrading to a newer VTScada version does not require re-integration of these features.
Learn more about VTS features available out-of-the-box
Application Version Control (Optional)
Since version 10.0 each VTScada application includes a traceable audit log of time stamped versions that include configuration changes made on every workstation in the system since installation.
This optional feature allows you to:
- See incremental changes
- Quickly return to any past good version
- Merge changes from two versions together
- Review change details before deployment
- Quickly trace problems back to their source
- Recover quickly from unexpected effects of configuration changes
Watch the video: www.trihedral.com/products/vts-version-control
Advanced Configuration Management
Version 10 includes a suite of new features designed to help integrators increase productivity by reducing development time, increasing the number of features they can offer customers and making is easier to provide support when needed.
- Reduce integration time by cloning existing applications
- Create applications and update existing ones offsite and offline
- Distribute new or updated applications to multiple computers with a single ‘change set’ file
- Use a ‘change set’ files to easily backup and restore configuration information
- Distribute ‘change sets’ easily via email, memory stick, CD or FTP
- See audit log of all configuration changes for every computer in the system since installation
- Return to any previously known good version of the application
Learn more about VTS features available out-of-the-box
True Server Redundancy & Automatic-failover
Despite what many HMI manufacturers claim, only VTScada offers true system-wide redundancy.
- Easily configure seamless failover of application servers, Internet clients and I/O device network connections
- Configure an unlimited number of backup servers for most services
- Distribute redundant servers across locations that are hundreds of miles apart
- Reduce you total server count by setting up client workstations to also function as backup servers
- Automatically synchronize your historical data and alarms when offline servers are restored
Watch the video
Enhanced Historian Tag
Version 10 includes an incredibly fast historian designed for large distributed HMI systems.
- Integrated VTScada Historian is capable of logging up to 160,000 tags/second
- Optionally log to SQL databases such as MySQL, SQL Server and Oracle
- Configure multiple historians to distribute the load across multiple servers
- Synchronize remote historians with each other across a WAN at up to 4000 values/second
- Reliably synchronize different database types
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Real-time Online Configuration
Without interrupting your monitoring & control process, VTScada allows you to…
- Configure applications with no configuration server available
- Make simultaneous changes from multiple workstations
- Debug communications & application script code
- Automatically push changes out to local and remote computers
- Configure tags from Internet clients
- Load tag changes without application restart
- Also load many changes to source code and properties without restarting
VTScada remains the only product that allows this level of online configuration.
Watch the video
Extensive Library of Standard & Proprietary Device Drivers, in addition to OPC & DDE
- Other HMI products require OPC and DDE drivers from 3rd party suppliers
- VTS includes direct drivers for over 100 industry standard and proprietary devices
- Direct drivers = less problems = lower integration costs
See available device drivers
Retentive Totalizer & Counter Tags
The VTS retentive totalizer and counter tags provide important information for activities such as performing preventative maintenance, creating operating and usage reports or recognizing patterns and anomalies in your system.
- The counter tag allows you to count process events
- The totalizer tag records the sum of a process variable’s value
These values are retentive and will remain in memory even if the HMI is restarted. Users can configure their systems to regularly log these values to the historical database.
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Real-time Monitoring of System Architecture
Unplanned downtime is unacceptable. VTS includes tools to monitor the network and computer infrastructure warning of impending problems and triggering alarms when unexpected events occur.
VTS monitors…
- I/O device communication links
- Computer memory, drive space available, CPU usage
- Network links between client and server workstations
- Power remaining in Universal Power Supply (UPS)
For more information, see the VTS / VTScada datasheet
Networked Electronic Operator’s Logbook
Using a standard handwritten operator’s logbook? VTS provides an encrypted, networked logbook for users to create time-stamped entries and print summaries as necessary. Notes cannot be edited and the entire log is saved to an encrypted file.
Operator notes are networked and therefore can be viewed by any VTS user with appropriate application security privileges.
For more information, see the VTS / VTScada datasheet
Support for Multiple Operating Systems
A single 70 MB executable file can install VTScada on any of these operating systems:
- Windows 7 ™
- Windows Vista™
- Windows XP™
- Windows 2003 and 2008 Server™
This includes the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of VTScada on Windows 7 or Vista.
Best-in-Class Customer Service
It is generally acknowledged by our customers that Trihedral offers a level of technical support that goes beyond the ordinary.
- "The tech support at Trihedral is second to none. They can get to the heart of the problem from almost anywhere. That's the truth.’
Mark Russo - Wastewater Treatment Plant Operator, Fountain Hills Sanitation District, AZ - “As long as Trihedral keeps offering this level of customer support, there will always be VTScada at Gainesville.”
Thomas Wallace, Instrument Technician, Gainesville Regional Utilities, KY - “The people at Trihedral were great to work with. I always knew I could reach them if I needed to speak with them.”
Nicole MacDonald, Wastewater Manager Colchester County, Nova Scotia - “They are always easy to get a hold of or will get back to you quickly. You never have a concern that if you leave a voice mail or an email, that it’s going into oblivion.“
Shawn Derrington - IT Director, Georgetown Municipal Water & Sewer Service, KY
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