Catapult iPower has been developed to reflect the need for a scalable, flexible and extensible SCADA, from the smallest single computer system to the largest multi-computer system, for control room, corporate and remote access.

• Client server architecture;
  
  
• Scalable from a single computer providing all server and client services, through to multiple server and multiple client computers;
  
  
• Multiple servers and redundant servers with automatic failover options;
  
  
• View only, operate and/or configure client options; dedicated clients and/or concurrent licensing client options;
  
  
• Local LAN ,WAN, and remote/portable client options;
  
  
• Web-based client options;
  
  
• Duplicated networking with automatic network failover.

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Catapult iPower can be installed as a stand-alone SCADA system. In a stand-alone system a single computer provides all the functions of a system:

• Server functions such as real-time communications with RTUs and PLCs, database management, alarm and event management and history recording
  
  
• Client functions such as operator and/or engineering HMI, including monitoring, control and configuration.

Standalone systems can have full configuration client capability, operator capability, or read-only capability.

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Catapult iPower can be installed as a multi-computer SCADA system. In a multi-computer system the various services provided by the SCADA system are distributed amongst multiple computers in a client-server architecture.

An excellent example of a complex multi-computer SCADA system using Catapult iPower is Dakota Electric Association.

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