The worldwide market for supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems for the water & wastewater industries is expected to grow at a CAGR of 5.4 percent over the next five years. The market was US$212 million in 2006 and is forecasted to be over US$275 million in 2011, according to a new ARC Advisory Group study.“These new generations of SCADA components are easier to integrate and provide vastly improved capabilities and functionalities. SCADA systems are now being considered in a wide range of applications and true business processes for a variety of purposes, including business performance management,” according to Research Director Russ Novak, the principal author of ARC’s “SCADA Systems for the Water & Wastewater Industry”.The ARC report also states that the underlying technology that facilitates traditional SCADA functionality has changed dramatically. For water utilities, emerging technology is enabling SCADA to be tightly integrated to the domain of business processes, creating an improved value proposition for its usage. SCADA systems bring improved performance to geographically dispersed assets and provide a framework for real time performance management on a regional, or even global, basis.
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