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PcVue Solutions
Technical Highlights
Your Independent Global SCADA Provider

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 Contents
1.SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE................................................................................................................................. 4
2.DEVELOPMENT............................................................................................................................................... 4
3.DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS......................................................................................................................... 5
4.DATA ACQUISITION........................................................................................................................................ 5
5.REAL TIME DATA............................................................................................................................................. 6
6.ARCHIVING DATA........................................................................................................................................... 6
7.ACTIONS........................................................................................................................................................ 7
8.GRAPHICAL INTERFACE.................................................................................................................................. 7
9.ALARMS....................................................................................................................................................... 8
10.EVENT LOGS................................................................................................................................................. 8
11.TRENDS........................................................................................................................................................ 9
12.ADVANCED VCR FUNCTION......................................................................................................................... 9
13.RECIPES........................................................................................................................................................ 9
14.ACCESS RIGHTS.......................................................................................................................................... 10
15.REPORTS AND SUMMARIES WITH DATAVUE.............................................................................................. 10
16.PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES (SCADA BASIC & VBA)................................................................................ 10
17.SURVEILLANCE MANAGEMENT................................................................................................................ 11
18.DBMS DATA EXCHANGE............................................................................................................................. 11
19.SECURITY DEVICES..................................................................................................................................... 11
20.CFR PART 11 FUNCTIONS........................................................................................................................... 12
21.INTERNET BROWSER ACCESS WITH WEBVUE............................................................................................ 12
22.WEB SERVICES........................................................................................................................................... 12
23.REMOTE DESKTOP SERVICES...................................................................................................................... 13
24.MOBILE ACCESS WITH TOUCHVUE…….…....................................................................................................13
25.GEO MAP CONTROL FOR GIS DECISION MAKING....................................................................................... 13

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1. SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE

• Supported on Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, XP*, Vista*, Server 2003*, Server 2008, Server
2008 R2, Server 2012 & virtual machine (VMWare®/hyperV®)
• Portability of applications from previous versions
• Open architecture
• Alarm processing
• Archive processing
• Client/server architecture Server VMWare ESX

• Real time multi-tasking kernel

• Bilingual facility for menus and application
• Optimized data sharing among PcVue network stations
• Built-in, optimized redundancy of data acquisition & historical data
• Product structure facilitating integration of vertical approach
• Full Object Oriented technology
• Versions in Brazilian, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Polish, Russian,
Spanish

* : compatible up to version 10

2. DEVELOPMENT

• Windows ease of use: an intuitive environment for development

• The same mimic may be opened simultaneously in design and run modes
• Single, integral development workspace for all aspects of the software
• Entire project data contained in one folder and its sub-folders
• Powerful object library tool: Application Architect
• Tool for simulating values of PLC variables
• Project design based on built-in configuration and parameters
• Wizards to assist configuration
• Multiple undo and redo
• Online help available in two languages
• Project Versioning Management
• Central Project Management with automatic loading of the latest available version on a server or local
station
• No compilation required - on-line modification for all project aspects
• Plain text and XML configuration files that open in third party editors: Excel, XML Editor, etc.
• Network key as a token to control development rights across the network of supervisory stations
• Powerful scripting language for managing built-in objects and functionalities

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3. DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS

• Built-in inter-station messaging using TCP/IP

• Exchanging values of variables in real time: internal, equipment and
historical
• Single configuration of the database for distributed architectures
• Scripts-free configuration wizard
• Built-in automatic redundancy mechanisms
• Built-in centralized version management of projects and libraries
• Concentrator station and archive server
• Administration of network users’ access rights
• System variables to indicate the status of network stations and of the
connections between them
• Deployment of changes and creation of variables across the network at run
time
• Fully compatible with virtualized environments and Remote Desktop
Services which allow taking advantage of the PcVue rich clients remotely
executed on any device including any terminals with HTML5-compliant web
browser

4. DATA ACQUISITION

• Communication supported with PLCs, controllers, Fieldbus I/O and other industrial equipment
• Communication via serial port, Ethernet card, manufacturer specific
• Built-in support of many serial and TCP/IP protocols
• See ‘Communication Protocols’ on http://support.
pcvuesolutions.com/
• Built-in BACnet® driver
• Built-in LonWorks driver supporting LNS-TE
• Built-in IEC 60870-5-104 client driver with redundancy
• Built-in DNP3 client driver
• Built-in IEC 61850 client driver, KEMA certified - includes support
for wind farm and DER extensions
• Modbus TCP/IP slave
• OPC & XML data client and server
• Event-driven exchange with the PcVue kernel
• Polling interval is configurable for each data frame
• Prioritized queuing of user commands
• Supports time-stamping at field device level
• Time-stamping of data with millisecond accuracy
• Recording and display of the time-stamp from the source (field device or PcVue)
• SDK for custom protocols
• Built-in Tools for diagnostics & data flow auditing
• Support of V1, V2C and V3 version of SNMP, Browsing of OID and Management of Unsolicited data
from Trap messages

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5. REAL TIME DATA

• Object-oriented Variables Tree

• Hierarchical variable name structure
• Variable types: bits, registers, texts, and alarms
• Conversion to physical values
• Deadband
• Discrepancy checking
• Expressions and formula calculations
• Chronometer and counter variables
• Level threshold detection system plus hysteresis on analog variables
• Associated labels for variables to describe them explicitly in mimics, alarm lists and event logs
• Multiple boolean & text user attributes associated with variables
• Filter-Search-Sort can be applied to alarm, historical and trend viewers depending on those attributes
• SmartGenerators: Automatic generation of the Variables Tree from many 3rd party applications such
as: Unity® - Schneider Electric, LonDB - LonWorks Technology, AutoCAD, Siemens Step7®, ISaGRAF,
WAGO, Harmonas ,Factory Link, Saia Burgess Controls PCD®, Beckhoff TwinCAT®, BACnet®
• Manager Toolkit (SDK) for variables to allow a 3rd party application to subscribe to PcVue data locally
or via TCP/IP

6. ARCHIVING DATA

• HDS - Historical Data Server records in, and replays from Microsoft SQL Server. Microsoft’s freely
distributable SQL Server Express edition included
• Built-in - records in, and replays from, PcVue’s own native data storage
system. Highly optimized data recording for maximum performance
• Database Creation Wizard guides you through the process of
configuring data recording using the Historic Data Server
• System variables to monitor data archiving
• Log lists allow recording & displaying events, alarms and user
actions in the same event log
• Back-up/restore mechanism from archive unit folder to the
back-up folder
• Redundant SQL Server databases and replication management
• Viewing and maintaining SQL database properties and contexts
• Integrated database maintenance for non SQL Server specialists

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7. ACTIONS

• Sending recipes and commands according to a weekly timetable,

managing exception periods for public holidays
• Event-driven actions on variable & alarm changes
• Cyclical actions: run periodic script
• Web based Scheduler
• Send Email and SMS on event with template & auto completion
• Upload and download files on FTP

8. GRAPHICAL INTERFACE

• Graphical interface based on ARC Informatique’s FrontVue software

• Object oriented graphical Interface
• Color selection by color picker
• Color palette of up to 16 million colors
• Color gradients for 3D effects
• Blinking and transparent colors
• Microsoft VBA included in the graphical interface
• Integration and manipulation of ActiveX and .NET components
• Supported image formats: WMF, EMF, GIF (static, animated), BMP, JPEG, PNG, and AVI
• Animation of real 3D embedding objects using DirectX technology
• Mimics can be automatically re-sized if the display resolution changes
• Vector drawing tool
• Versatile ways of notifying loss of communication with equipment
• Visual browser to display and change object properties without ungrouping them: Graphic Explorer
• Totally configurable appearance of windows, including to/from child and parent windows
• 16 design layers with locking according to user’s access level
• Decluttering support to hide or display graphic elements according to zoom layers
• Zooming on-the-fly to enlarge an area of a mimic on a separate display
• Mimic panning & zooming function
• Object visibility dependent on zoom level
• Over 60 animations including text, color, position, and send command
• Use of expressions and substitution strings in animations
• Integrated support for multi-screen applications
• Template mimics for consistent look and feel across a project
• Grid animation: a facility for displaying and modifying information in
a spreadsheet-like grid of cells
• Mimics cached in memory for fast loading
• Ability to associate mimic animations with shortcut keys
• Display of tool-tip text on control zones
• Ready for use on touch screen: virtual keyboard, large tool bar, large scroll bar
• Unlimited number of mimics

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 • Multiple animations can be applied to the same drawing element
• Mimics up to 10,000 x 10,000 pixels in size
• Option of bilingual applications with automatic language change at run-time
• Iconizing of mimics
• Option of plain text mimic format allows mimics to be created and edited with an external application
• Import /export of mimic texts

9. ALARMS

• 5 alarm states and 30 alarm levels

• Filter, Search and Sort on alarms by state, levels and/or attributes -
modifiable online
• Filtering of alarm processing by station
• Alarm counters by value, level, attributes etc.
• Automatic masking by dependency and manually masking by user
action
• Alarm viewers and log viewers with column based sorting
• Customizable alarm viewer
• User masking of insignificant alarms with password locking (30
levels of masking)
• Action / tip information associated with each alarm
• Fully configurable alarm colors according to level and state
• Logging of alarms to disk and/or continuous printing
• Automatic sending of acknowledgements to PLCs
• Optimized alarm states shared among PcVue network stations

10. EVENT LOGS

• Access to Client/Server event log

• Option to append comments to events in the event logs
• Dynamically modifiable filters by attribute
• Customizable event viewer
• Recording of data to one or more archive units
• Recording of data in binary, ASCII or SQL Server formats
• Formats for historical logging are configurable for easy export to
third party software
• Logging of alarm values, user login/logout, program execution,
alarm masking, changes to variable states etc.
• Filtering and sorting of events

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11. TRENDS

• Dynamic configuration of trend viewer look and feel in design and

run modes, with optional locking
• Y=f(t) trends and Y=f(X) chart controls
• Logarithmic trends
• Customizable trend viewer
• Simultaneous display of real time and historical data
• Zoom in and zoom out in time axis or both time and value axes
• Cursor for reading selected values
• Multiple dynamic and scrolling scales
• Dynamic addition, deletion and substitution of variables by operator
at run time
• Event-driven recording to minimize use of disk storage
• Printing of displayed trends on graphical
printers
• Ability to draw lines for thresholds, Min & Max
• Specific colors when the trend rises above or falls below thresholds, Min or
Max values
• Wizard to export trend data into XLS or CSV file

12. ADVANCED VCR FUNCTION

• Replay of historic variable values through mimics at various rates

• Facility for data recording for several weeks
• Replay information event by event to analyze incident sequences

13. RECIPES

• Recipe send on demand or by event

• Up to 1,000 variables (register, and/or bit and/or text) per recipe
• Option to create a recipe based on real time values
• Inspection and modification of values before sending
• Management of recipes from a relational DBMS
• Use recipes to retrieve and save process setpoints
• Facility for logging by using a product batch index to ease extraction of
historical data by batch number

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14. ACCESS RIGHTS
• Unlimited number of users
• Single-Sign On Support: simpler management of user rights
• Management by profile for maximum flexibility
• Password strength control
• Up to 30 hierarchical profile levels
• Facility for locking access to particular mimics, command variables,
log variables, alarm acknowledgement and masking, WebVue etc.
• Control of reading, creation, changing and sending of recipes
• Station dependant access profiles for multi-station architectures
• Password validity limited by date
• Ability to require password change on first login

15. REPORTS AND SUMMARIES

• Data export as text files or into Excel
• Facility to export all archived bit and register data, from event logs and
log lists
• Data extraction using criteria by date and/or batch number etc.
• Extraction request is built using a graphical editor
• Sampling period from 1 second to several days
• Facility to extract data from PcVue or ODBC archive units
• Automatic running of requests for PcVue to generate summaries, at end
of each batch run, change of team, day, week, month etc.
• Automatic starting of an Excel macro after data extraction for report formatting
• Advanced, powerful reporting functionalities using Dream Report software

16. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

• Specifically created to work within the PcVue environment and extend its features
• Advanced functions dedicated to supervision
• Modular structure
• Arithmetic and boolean operators
• Triggering on event
• Access to DLLs
• Access to the variables tree, historical data and alarms
• Control of multimedia peripherals
• SQL support
• Comprehensive editor with syntax highlighting, auto-completion
and code snippet insertion
• Contextual help for language instructions
• Code snippets to automate insertion of all frequently used pieces of
code : program and function comments, loop, conditional statements, new Sub etc.
• Microsoft VBA Scripting
• Trends, alarms, mimics etc. can all be scripted

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 17. SURVEILLANCE MANAGEMENT

• Surveillance management by Alert software

• User management and organizing the surveillance
• Message transmission to fixed and mobile devices, GSM, radio message, beep,
fax, email and Internet browser
• Facility to acknowledge remote alarms according to the terminal used
• Facility for voice synthesis to generate audio messages
• Interfacing with OPC servers
• Monitoring the supervisory application and sending an alarm if failure
occurs
• Managing redundant Alert stations
• Logging / history of events arising on the Alert system

18. DBMS DATA EXCHANGE

• Exchange of data with DBMS via SQL requests

• Microsoft SQL Server Built-in driver
• Bi-directional data exchange to let manufacturing orders be sent to the
supervisory system and PLCs
• Cyclic or event-based operation
• ODBC / OLE DB interface for data exchange with the most common DBMSs
• Configuration by clicking, no programming required
• Data analysis by software for DBMS reporting

19. SECURITY DEVICES

• Automatic swapping of data server stations

• Optional redundant communication network between stations
• Messaging - uses subscription between client and server to minimize switch-over times
• Optional redundant field communication network
• Option of redundant data acquisition stations on single-master communication networks
• Option of redundant historical data server on Microsoft SQL Server
• Monitoring of frame, equipment and network condition, using individual status indicators
• Monitoring by the equipment of the correct functioning of the Supervisor
• Tool to control event flows at the heart of the system
• Log file of system events for diagnostic analysis if failure occurs
• OPC-Security specification is implemented

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20. CFR PART 11 FUNCTIONS

• Audit trail
• Individual electronic signature for each user
• Option for double signature on sending commands
• Each name/password combination is unique
• Automatic logout either programmable or after a period of
inactivity
• Locking after a number of unsuccessful attempts
• Recording of failed attempts to log in, with option to notify the system
administrator
• Guarantee of integrity of historical data by CRC
• Logging of previous value when a value is changed

21. INTERNET BROWSER ACCESS WITH WEBVUE

• ARC Informatique’s WebVue, a light supervisory client accessed

through a web browser
• Based on Sun’s JAVA technology available on Microsoft Windows,
Linux, Unix, Macintosh etc.
• Enables display of real-time data and access to historical data, trends
and events
• Facilities for remote commands and acknowledgement of alarms
(according to user rights)
• No software installation necessary on the remote station
• Optimized data exchange for mimic updates
• Encrypted data exchange to prevent problems of hacking
• Access to PcVue data server via IIS in XML SOAP
• Station for production maintenance staff, or for all occasional users
• Several users may be connected simultaneously to the supervisory application managed by the web
server station
• No license required on the client station

22. WEB SERVICES

• Service descriptions accessible in WSDL language

• Data transport via XML / SOAP
• Identification and connection sessions
• Access to real time data, historical data and alarm lists

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23. REMOTE DESKTOP SERVICES

• Client / server architectures validated on Remote Desktop Services

• PcVue clients via Microsoft RDC on iPhone, IPad, Smartphone or other
operating system (CE, XPE, Linux etc.)
• Assured redundancy of data acquisition servers

24. MOBILE ACCESS WITH TOUCHVUE

• A web application designed for :

- Smartphone
- Tablets
• Usable as a web portal for other platforms
• Provides access to the PcVue variable’s tree :
- Real-time values
- Alarms
- Historical event log
- Historical trend data
• Take advantage of PcVue user rights
• Minimal configuration on the server side

25. GEO MAP CONTROL FOR GIS DECISION MAKING

• Built-in PcVue component client for a GIS map-ping service

• Displays an interactive map supplied by map providers (Online&Offline
both supported)
• Allows an easy map manipulation with integrated functions such as
panning and zooming
• Displays overlays with custom dynamic objects (Markers) including
PcVue animated symbols
• Turns any PcVue symbol into a marker on a map with an associated position
• Basic markers, such as shapes, images or texts
• Display/control of variables value or attributes
• Popup and mimic open on markers
• Markers and layers stored in a standard GPX file automatically loaded and
rendered by the map control without import/export
• GPX files editor to create and to edit GPX files
• Map cache creator provided to retrieves map data online and to
prepare the map cache for offline runtime usage

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PcVue Solutions range to build your architecture
TouchVue PcVue
Access
Alert Dream Report Solutions
WebVue
On-call
management Reporting

IntraVue
Ethernet
diagnosis

PcVue
Acquisition
Control
Archiving

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