Bad experiences with RTUs

Bad experiences?  Yep - plenty.  Mostly to do with crappy initial
configuration and lousy support from the supplier..

Motorola MOSCAD:  There are about 2 installations over here and about 1
crowd that supports them - the oringinal supplier gave up long ago :-(.  One
installation we were involved with has a network of these things using DNP3
over land-line back to the host.  The software is clumsy and one failure
takes out the entire system.

Hunter Watertech PDS 500:  No on-board indication that the units are
communicating with each other properly.

Good experiences include Kingfisher (still fully supported by the same
company that makes them) and MOX.

Cameron:-)
 

Hi Cameron,

Funny you should mention those products.  I worked for MOX for the last
year or so and I worked for RTUnet (kingfisher) for two years prior to
that.  Yeah the Kingfisher Series II works really well as long as you
use their native protocol.  Their new product should be great once it
is released and has any initial teething problems ironed out (standard
for any tech product really).  The MOX range of products are my pick
though, pound for pound are great value, redundancy and flexibility.  I
worked for Invensys for 6 years and their RTU50 product was a do
everything and do it well type product but it was a bit pricey.
Nothing but bad experiences with HWT and Serck equipment though.

Andrew