Saturday 26 November 2011

Mystery acronym decoded

A recent stoppage alert from Waterscape contained an acronym I hadn't encountered. Here's what the alert said:

Stoppage: Peak Forest Canal

MARPLE FLIGHT

Tuesday 29 November 2011 - Wednesday 30 November 2011
Two half day stoppages on the Marple flight for verification of the SCADA gauge.

Day 1 29th November 2011
12midday - 5pm

Day 2 30th November 2011
8am - 1pm

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE ENTIRE LOCK FLIGHT IS CLOSED FOR NAVIGATION DURING THESE PERIODS.

What stumped me was "SCADA". I put it into a search engine, found a fancy website for designing your own gauges, but there was nothing to say what it stood for. Time to invoke Wikipedia.

Ah - so that's what it is: Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition. No doubt lots of you knew that.


I couldn't find a photo of any SCADA equipment, so here's a heron. Staffs and Worcs, April 2011.

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