Building automation, Process Control and Supervision

FreeSCADA is short for "Free Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition". It's a UNIX-based software system for automation and process control developed by Raditex Control AB. The FreeSCADA system provides a complete environment for process control and data collection, including an extremely flexible and easy to use system for control rules programming, a fully graphical user interface for configuration and process supervision, alarm utilites, remote access and a lot more.

FreeSCADA is an advanced general purpose control system which can be applied in a great vareity of control applications. It is particularly well suited for areas such as building automation, environment control, industial process control, etc.

FreeSCADA is designed with, and based on, open source software and uses the PC hardware platform. By using the full capacity of modern PC hardware and UNIX systems, FreeSCADA reaches performance that is superior to traditional PLC based control systems, and at lower costs. For example, in the FreeSCADA Database logs spanning several years can be stored in high resolution while traditional systems often has very limited resources for data logs.

FreeSCADA is fully network-oriented which makes remote access a natural feature of the system. The FreeSCADA graphical user interfaces uses the X-window system and thus offers the possibility to display windows on remote X systems via the internet. The FreeSCADA system also have a web-interface.