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When the Johnson County, Kansas, water district faced the need to update its control facilities, it had a number of concerns regarding implementation. The conversion of the district's monitoring and control functions from the existing telemetry system to a computer- based SCADA system was a significant investment in new technology. This paper briefly discusses the water district's concerns and their solutions. Included are: the speediness of scan time, which was optimized with use of fiber optics; staff acceptance, which was elicited with early involvement and training; changeover disturbances, which were avoided by installing and commissioning the SCADA central hardware and communications gear first and then changing over each remote site individually; operator culture shock, which was avoided by designing the new system to have a similar "feel" to the original system.

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Published: 01/01/1991 ISBN(s): 0898675812 Number of Pages: 5File Size: 1 file , 340 KB