National Standard: SCADA and Upper-Level Systems

A unified approach to automation of industrial and infrastructure assets: water supply, wastewater and energy systems.

We develop and implement common standards for dispatching centers and operator workstations, enabling secure data collection and transmission.

Reference architecture

  • SCADA subsystem: real-time data collection from PLC controllers and automation cabinets.
  • Hydraulic and energy modeling: forecasting network loads.
  • Asset passportization and data storage: centralized technical archive for each node and unit.
  • Predictive analytics: detection of hidden defects before they become incidents.

AITHYS national project

  • AITHYS is positioned as an applied SCADA/IIoT contour for Kazakhstan critical infrastructure: water supply and sewerage, district heating, gas supply and power supply in one operator workspace.
  • The project architecture uses Edge gateways, Kafka/MQTT, Apache IoTDB, PostgreSQL, WORM audit and a Vue SCADA HMI.
  • The public demo contour is available at aithys.com; Digital Kazakhstan also publishes AITHYS as a dedicated implementation case.

Economic effect

  • Resource losses in networks reduced by 15.50%.
  • Unplanned repair costs reduced by 20.30%.
  • Common requirements for secure data exchange between sites, dispatching centers and analytics systems.

AITHYS cabinet screenshots

The public demo cabinet shows an operator overview using synthetic data: site status, active incidents, infrastructure segments and a mobile interface check.

AITHYS demo operator cabinet: desktop infrastructure overview
Desktop operator overview Connected sites, active incidents, average wear and infrastructure segments.
AITHYS demo operator cabinet: mobile view
Mobile cabinet view Navigation and key metrics check on a narrow screen.

SCADA architecture layers

Site

PLCs, RTUs, control cabinets, local panels and field measurements.

Control room

Operator workstations, mimic diagrams, alarms, event journal and shift reporting.

Data center

Historical archive, analytics, ERP/CMMS integration and management dashboards.

Data and security requirements

  • Unified signal passport: source, unit, valid range, polling frequency and importance class.
  • Separated roles for operator, engineer, contractor and auditor.
  • Logging of setpoint changes, alarm acknowledgements and manual interventions.
  • Readiness for backing up configurations, history and project documentation.
  • Reference standards: IEC 62443 for industrial control system cybersecurity, IEC 60870-5-104 and IEC 61850 for telecontrol and power systems, OPC UA / IEC 62541 for industrial data exchange, ISO/IEC 27001 for information security management, and GOST 34.601/34.602 for automated-system lifecycle and specifications.
  • For Kazakhstan critical infrastructure loops, requirements are additionally checked against critical ICT infrastructure criteria and unified ICT and information-security requirements.