Conveners
Services
- Gillian Black (Canadian Light Source Inc.)
Description
Archive, alarm, log and similar services
IRFU[1] software control team (LDISC) is involved from feasibility studies to equipment deployment into many different experiments by their size and running time. For many years, LDISC is using PLC solution for controlling part of the experiment, and two different SCADA:
- MUSCADE, in-house SCADA dedicated to small experiments.
- EPICS for big facilities.
With MUSCADE, LDISC has...
When porting the RCP-based CS-Studio alarm system tools to phoebus, its architecture which used to be based on a combination of RDB and JMS was reconsidered. The new implementation based on Kafka offers several advantages.
An effective and useful alarm system is one which produces alarms which are well defined both in terms of its causes and the corrective actions to be taken at the same time it avoids overwhelming the user with noisy and numerous alarms. To achieve these goals it is imperative to ensure that the alarm configuration is properly populated, tuned, and maintained.
The new phoebus alarm system...
