Point Lepreau's LAN Based Station Control Computer and Generic Monitoring System

Abstract

A system has been developed and installed at Point Lepreau that pennies the simultaneous monitoring of live and historical plant data from a number of sources including the Station Control Computers (DCC's), the Safety System, Chemistry System, and D20 Vapour Recovery System Monitoring Computers. This system gives System Engineers and Analysts the ability to monitor present and past real time operations from their desks. The system consists of a Banyan Vines Local Area Network (LAN) / File Server system, a Gateway Computer System, several Generic Monitoring System Computers, and a dedicated tape archive system. Depending on the system, 100 ms, two or six second resolution of all data points that are monitored by their associated systems will be stored in a LAN file server for instantaneous and historical data retrieval at MS DOS or OS/2 based work stations that exist throughout the plant.