Trihedral Engineering
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1986 |
| Headquarters | Bedford, Nova Scotia |
| Products | Industrial Automation HMI - SCADA - MES Software |
| Website | www.vtscada.com |
Trihedral Engineering Limited (Trihedral) is a Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada–based creator of industrial automation software. The VTScada SCADA platform is the company's main product.[1]
Trihedral's has customers in fresh water and wastewater, subsea and terrestrial oil production, air traffic management monitoring systems, fire station and 911 emergency alerting systems, national broadcast networks, marine systems, manufacturing, and food & beverage industries.[2][3][4][5]
Trihedral has offices in Nova Scotia, Florida, Alberta, Alabama, California, Michigan, Texas and Scotland.[6]
VTScada
[edit]VTScada is both a Human Machine Interface (HMI), and a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) software package.[6] Functionally, VTScada includes real-time monitoring and control, telemetry, alarm and events management, alarm notification, data acquisition, reporting, trending, mapping, application version control, Internet and mobile access.[7][8]
VTScada communicates with programmable logic controllers (PLCs), Remote Terminal Units (RTUs), pump controllers and other devices using radio, LAN, WAN, cellular, or phone lines. This information is logged and displayed to users on a computer screen via trend graphs, reports, or graphical display pages. The software can also send control signals back to the devices to control the process.[7][8]
The VTScada software is used by nearly 900 municipalities across the United States, and thousands of industrial customers globally.[9][10] Notable uses of the software include:
- An estimated one-third of drilled North Sea oil is controlled by VTScada[11]
- The City of Sacramento, California uses VTScada for monitoring and control of its fresh and wastewater infrastructure, with a license that supports up to 500,000 data points[12]
- Toyota uses VTScada to control its Kentucky assembly plant[11]
- Shannon Airport in Shannon, Ireland, and Halifax Stanfield International Airport in Halifax, Canada use the software to control their customs systems[11]
- The Miami Dade County, Florida Water and Sewer Department uses VTScada in their stormwater management system, to monitor up to 500,000 data points[13]
History
[edit]Glenn Wadden founded Trihedral in 1986.[6] In 1988, the company released “WEB”; one of the first PC-based SCADA packages that ran on the DOS platform. Trihedral briefly trademarked the term "WEB" in 1990, before the Internet's widespread proliferation.[14] In 1998, Trihedral Engineering Limited opened a 100% wholly owned subsidiary, Trihedral UK, in Aberdeen, Scotland.[15] In 1997, WEB became Visual Tag System (VTS) and was updated to run on the Windows operating system. By 2007, Trihedral had developed VTScada, an integrated toolset of telemetry features designed for the water and wastewater industry. The same year, Trihedral, Inc., opened in Orlando, Florida.[6][7]
Awards
[edit]- In 2015, Control Engineering (magazine) was named VTScada winner of the Control Engineering Engineer's Choice award in the HMI Software category.[16]
- Canada's Top 100 Employers ranked Trihedral among Nova Scotia's Top Employers from 2007 to 2013.[17]
References
[edit]- ^ "Trihedral Engineering Limited". 9 January 2012.
- ^ "VTScada software automates fire station alerting system". Automation.com. 2011-03-10. Retrieved 2016-08-11.
- ^ "Utah: Water-Supply SCADA System". Campbell Scientific. Retrieved 2016-08-11.
- ^ "Good Scada Makes Good Neighbors". Water & Waste Digest. 25 February 2011. Retrieved 2016-08-11.
- ^ "Industries using VTScada". Trihedral Engineering Ltd. Retrieved 2016-08-10.
- ^ a b c d "About Trihedral – A SCADA Software Vendor". Trihedral Engineering Ltd. Retrieved 2016-08-09.
- ^ a b c "What is VTScada". Trihedral Engineering Ltd. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
- ^ a b "Integrated SCADA Features". Trihedral Engineering Ltd. Retrieved 2016-08-10.
- ^ "Rise of robots good for Trihedral". The Chronicle Herald. 2016-02-22.
- ^ "The Evolution of The Internet of Things". Dalhousie University. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
- ^ a b c Tom Mason (2013-06-01). "Growth Craft". Progress Media Magazine. Archived from the original on 2016-08-21. Retrieved 2016-08-09.
- ^ "Agreement: Upgrade of the Department of Utilities Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) System, VTScada (VTS)". City of Sacramento. 2015-12-15.
- ^ "Trihedral software License, Maintenance Support and professional services" (PDF). Miami Dade County. p. 16. Retrieved 2016-09-20.
- ^ "WEB". Trademarkia. Retrieved 2016-08-09.
- ^ "Pole position for Aberdeen in Government's 'knowledge economy' strategy Hi-tech park puts a gleam in the North". Herald Scotland. 1998-09-16.
- ^ "EC: VTScada 11 HMI software". Control Engineering. 2014-10-20.
- ^ "2013 Winners". Mediacorp Canada Inc. Retrieved 2016-08-09.