AC Alternate Current
CAN Control Area Networks
CIP Critical Infrastructure/Information Protection
CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check
DC Direct Current
DCS Distributed Control system
DNP Distributed Network Protocol
GOMSFE Generic Object Models for Substation and Feeder Equipment
GOOSE Generic Object Oriented Substation Event
HCI Human-Computer Interface
HMI Human-Machine Interface
HVAC High Voltage Alternate Current
ICCP Inter-Control Center Communications Protocol
ICPS International Communications Protocol Standard
ICS Indistrial Control System
IEC International Electrochemical Commission
LAN Local Area Network
MTU Master Terminal Unit
NERC North American Electric Reliability Corporation
OLE Object Linking and Embedding
OPC OLE for Process Control
PLC Programmable Logic Controllers
PAC Programmable Automation Controllers
RTU Remote Terminal/Telemetry Units
SONET Synchronous Optical Networking
SDH Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
SCADA Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition
T& D Transmission and Distribution
UCA Universal Communications Adapter/ Utility Communications Architecture
SCADA Protocols
RTU's communicate with central SCADA station, other RTU's and networked devices.
DNP3
ICCP
MODBUS(X)
Profibus
Fieldbus
BACnet
IEEE 60870 (IEC 60870-5-101 is an ICPS)
ASCII
Other vendors like Allen Bradley, GE Fanuc, Siemens Sinaut, Mitsubishi, Omron, Toshiba, Westinghouse etc have proprietary SCADA Protocols
Useful Web Sites
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCADA
http://www.wurldtech.com/
http://www.plcs.net/contents.shtml
http://www.modbus.org/
http://www.cpni.gov.uk/advice/infosec/business-systems/scada/
http://www.dnp3.org/
http://www.iccp.org/
http://www.digitalbound.com/
Please leave a comment if I missed out an important acronym, protocol, link/site etc.
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