Introduction

Module 05
Study case
Contents

1 Study case 3
2 Design process 4
3 Study 5
3.1 Specifications and needs 5
3.2 Proposed architecture 5
3.3 HMI navigation proposed 6
3.4 Functional blocks 7

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1 Study case
During this training course we will create a complete project implementing the
common features needed for most real projects.
SCADA software is used in various industries (power supply, water treatment,
manufacturing etc.). We have selected a building management project because it can
be understood without specialist knowledge.

Figure 1

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2 Design process
You can design a PcVue project in several ways but, because PcVue is object oriented,
there is one best way represented by the following diagram.

Figure 2

We will try to follow this procedure to design our study case.

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3 Study
3.1 Specifications and needs
Our imaginary customer requires a project with the following features:
 This building has three floors.
 The three floors have five rooms and are identical.
 All floors have a power meter measuring the power consumed (KWH).
 All rooms have one air conditioner and one light.
 Collect the data from one PLC and one OPC server.
 The same layout for each mimic.
 Good, clear navigation among mimics.
 Display all data about all the air conditioners and lights.
 Manage the alarms.
 Archive the data and display on trends and logs.
 Display the status of the devices we are communicating with.
 Manage several User Accounts.
Specifically for the training we want to have mimics to display some basic features
such as animations. Later when you design an actual project you can come back to
these mimics to remind you.
3.2 Proposed architecture
This project will implement a single PcVue station in stand-alone mode.
The following diagram represents the architecture:

Figure 3

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3.3 HMI navigation proposed
We can represent the navigation by the following diagram:

Figure 4

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3.4 Functional blocks
We can identify 4 ‘functional blocks’.
 Power Meter.
The data involved are:
 Power consumed (KWh),
 Status
 Air conditioners.
The data involved are:
 Temperature value,
 On/Off,
 Temperature set point,
 Temperature High/Low limit,
 Brand, model, vendor details.
 Lights.
The data involved are:
 On/Off,
 Luminosity value,
 Control.
 The mimic layout.
The common objects we want to display are:
 Logo,
 Navigation bar,
 Login/Logout button,
 Date, time and current user,
 Current alarms.

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