Using ScadaGuard Dialer with the InduSoft Web Studio
Alarm Example Demo App
Foreword:
This document discusses the necessary steps to use ScadaGuard Dialer with InduSoft Web Studio using
the pre-built Alarm Example Demo Application and an OEM Demo version of ScadaGuard Dialer which
places an icon for the demo on your desktop, once it is installed.
ScadaGuard Dialer can be downloaded from the InduSoft Web Store. Proceed installing this demo
version on your computer. The InduSoft Demo version and the demo or full ScadaGuard Dialer version
does not require a modem to be installed for the dialer application to function.
Note: During the installation process, some screens showing the installation of Microsoft Speech
SDK and Engines (Figure 1) may be behind the installation screen of ScadaGuard Dialer, and
need to be brought to the front in order to proceed with the installation. There may be a
flashing icon in the taskbar, or the installation process may just appear to be stalled. Simply
click the installation icon on the taskbar to bring this screen to the front in order to proceed with
the installation. This issue may occur in a Windows 7 or Windows 8 installation.
The InduSoft Web Studio demo application, “AlarmExampleProjectDB.app”, and detailed instructions
to use it are available in the application blog, “InduSoft Web Studio Alarming Examples Application” by
clicking this link. You can also download the sample application, “AlarmExampleProject.app” from the
InduSoft Sample Application Web Site here if you don’t need the instructions in the blog.
Figure 1: Installation of ScadaGuard Dialer showing MS Speech SDK and Engines dialog
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Using ScadaGuard with the Alarm Example Project Application:
Start the IWS Alarm Example Project application, and make sure that the alarms are being correctly
written to to the Access project database by following the instructions in the application blog. When the
application is running correctly, the alarms and states will be displayed in the Alarm Display object, and
the “Clear Alarms” button will remove them. The InduSoft OPC Server Task is set to “Startup” when the
runtime application starts.
Note: The following instructions explain how to manually configure the alarm tags in the ScadaGuard
application and use it.
Simply opening the “InduSoft-ScadaGuard Dialer Demo” application, which is installed during
ScadaGuard installation, will have the IWS tags already configured for you. No other configuration is
necessary.
The included VB alarm generator application (which starts up when the either ScadaGuard demo starts) is
configured to work with the “ScadaGuard Dialer” application also installed on your desktop.
Open ScadaGuard, stop the sample VB alarm generator application, and select “Alarms” from the Setup
Menu (see Figure 2).
Figure 2: ScadaGuard Setup Menu
Select any existing alarms on the table and right-click to delete them from the table. Next, right-click on
a blank line in the table and select, “New OPC Alarm” (Figure 3), which will open the OPC Server
Browser (Figure 4). Choose the correct InduSoft Web Studio OPC Server instance.
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Figure 3: Right-Click on table and select “New OPC Alarm”
Figure 4: Browse the OPC Servers and select the correct OPC Server instance that is running on your machine.
Next, the OPC tag browser will open showing the application tags within the Alarm Example Project
(select Application Tags Group first). Choose the Data Type filter “BOOL” (Figure 5). Select the following
five tags to be added to the ScadaGuard Alarm List:
bAlarmTestHiHi
bAlarmTestLo
bAlarmTest
bAlarmTestHi
bAlarmTestLoLo
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Fill in the “Speech” field for each tag with the information that you want the computer to speak when
the tag is in alarm. This spoken information will play over the computer speakers.
Figure 5: Select Tags to be added to the ScadaGuard Alarm List, then enter the text information to be announced in
the “Speech” field of the tag.
The IWS Alarm Example Application has been configured to “AckAll” alarms by setting the tag
“bAlarmTestAckAll” (to 1). Pushing the button “Ack All” sets this tag. The routine in the scripts of the
project acknowledges the alarms and resets the “bAlarmTestAckAll” tag (to 0). Adding this OPC tag to
the “External Acks” list of ScadaGuard will perform the same functionality as pressing the button in the
IWS application. When the “Acknowledge” button is pressed on the ScadaGuard application the OPC tag
“bAlarmTestAckAll” will be set.
From the ScadaGuard Setup Menu, select “External Acks” (Figure 6) and using the same process as
before, including deleting any existing tags. Select the Boolean tag, “bAlarmTestAckAll” from the OPC
browser (Figure 7) and add it to the list.
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Figure 6: Select Setup Menu and choose “External Acks”
Figure 7: Choose the “bAlarmTestAckAll” tag to add it to the tag list.
ScadaGuard is now configured. Create an alarm in the IWS application and the alarm will start ringing.
After a few moments, the alarm will also be picked up by ScadaGuard and the spoken text will come
over the computer speakers. You can acknowledge the alarm(s) in the ScadaGuard Application by
clicking on the “Ack” icon. This sets the “bAlarmTestAckAll” tag (to 1) in the IWS application and the
built-in routines will acknowledge the alarm(s), and the acknowledgement will appear in the Alarm
Display Object. Additionally the spoken text in the ScadaGuard Application will stop.
Further information about the setup, licensing, and using ScadaGuard Dialer is available in the
ScadaGuard Product Help Manual, and by visiting the ScadaGuard website: http://ScadaGuard.com/, by
email at: http://ScadaGuard.com/contact.html, or by telephone at: +1 (866) 417-4360.
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