Migration issues of SCADA systems to the cloud computing environment (review)
The paper deals with the migration of SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems widely used in the monitoring and management of the oil and gas industry to the cloud computing environment. There arise various problems in data collection, transmission, and processing because of traditional SCADA systems being very expensive, inflexible, and complicated scalability. The transferring of the SCADA system's applications to the cloud environment reduces costs and improves scalability. The purchase of hardware and software is carried out at a lower cost than its installation and maintenance. In the article, the usage of cloud-based SCADA systems has been proposed for easy, safe, reliable and quick collection and processing of data from facilities installed in the oil and gas industry.