A Survey of SCADA Testbed Implementation Approaches

Qassim, Qais Saif; Jamil, Norziana; Abidin, Izham Zainal; Rusli, Mohd Ezanee; Yussof, Salman; Ismail, Roslan; Abdullah, Fairuz; Ja’afar, Norhamadi; Hasan, Hafizah Che; Daud, Maslina

doi:10.17485/ijst/2017/v10i26/116775

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“…Since SCADA systems are nowadays becoming an essential part of electric power systems, such as microgrids, it is essential to consider an accurate testbed development. Five main approaches for testbed developments, shown in Table 1, can be considered [10].…”

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Low-cost web-based Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system for a microgrid testbed: A case study in design and implementation for academic and research applications

Vargas‐Salgado

Águila-León

Chiñas-Palacios

et al. 2019

Heliyon

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This paper presents the design and implementation of a low-cost Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system based on a Web interface to be applied to a Hybrid Renewable Energy System (HRES) microgrid. This development will provide a reliable and low-cost control and data acquisition systems for the Renewable Energy Laboratory at Universitat Politècnica de València (LabDER-UPV) in Spain, oriented to the research on microgrid stability and energy generation. The developed low-cost SCADA operates on a microgrid that incorporates a photovoltaic array, a wind turbine, a biomass gasification plant and a battery bank as an energy storage system. Sensors and power meters for electrical parameters, such as voltage, current, frequency, power factor, power generation, and energy consumption, were processed digitally and integrated into Arduino-based devices. A master device on a Raspberry-PI board was set up to send all this information to a local database (DB), and a MySQL Web-DB linked to a Web SCADA interface, programmed in HTML5. The communications protocols include TCP/IP, I2C, SPI, and Serial communication; Arduino-based slave devices communicate with the master Raspberry-PI using NRF24L01 wireless radio frequency transceivers. Finally, a comparison between a standard SCADA against the developed Web-based SCADA system is carried out. The results of the operative tests and the cost comparison of the own-designed developed Web-SCADA system prove its reliability and low-cost, on average an 86% cheaper than a standard brandmark solution, for controlling, monitoring and data logging information, as well as for local and remote operation system when applied to the HRES microgrid testbed.

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Low-cost web-based Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system for a microgrid testbed: A case study in design and implementation for academic and research applications

Vargas‐Salgado

Águila-León

Chiñas-Palacios

et al. 2019

Heliyon

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“…We then added survey articles, which we got through references from articles on testbeds and from unstructured searches via google scholar. Thanks to that, we found another three relevant articles [26][27][28].…”

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“…Qassim et al [27] deal mainly with the description of testbed approaches (such as physical, simulated, virtual, hybrid). The article also focused on essential parameters of testbeds: fidelity, repeatability, accuracy, safety, cost-effectiveness, reliability, and scalability.…”

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Application Perspective on Cybersecurity Testbed for Industrial Control Systems

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Blažek

Kuchař

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Sensors

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In recent years, the Industry 4.0 paradigm has accelerated the digitalization process of the industry, and it slowly diminishes the line between information technologies (IT) and operational technologies (OT). Among the advantages, this brings up the convergence issue between IT and OT, especially in the cybersecurity-related topics, including new attack vectors, threats, security imperfections, and much more. This cause raised new topics for methods focused on protecting the industrial infrastructure, including monitoring and detection systems, which should help overcome these new challenges. However, those methods require high quality and a large number of datasets with different conditions to adapt to the specific systems effectively. Unfortunately, revealing field factory setups and infrastructure would be costly and challenging due to the privacy and sensitivity causes. From the lack of data emerges the new topic of industrial testbeds, including sub-real physical laboratory environments, virtual factories, honeynets, honeypots, and other areas, which helps to deliver sufficient datasets for mentioned research and development. This paper summarizes related works in the area of industrial testbeds. Moreover, it describes best practices and lessons learned for assembling physical, simulated, virtual, and hybrid testbeds. Additionally, a comparison of the essential parameters of those testbeds is presented. Finally, the findings and provided information reveal research and development challenges, which must be surpassed.

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“…Despite the benefits of such strategies, such as remote maintenance, simpler adjustment of machines and a constant flow of information, the number of attacks against ICS networks has significantly increased, as reported by Kaspersky in its ICS-CERT annual report [7]. For these reasons, different types of testbeds are needed to measure the effects of cyber and physical attacks on industrial processes and to assess security countermeasures, as witnessed by the results reported in recent scientific literature [8], [9], [10]. Among the most widespread solutions to secure CPSs, we can mention Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) [13], for network monitoring (NIDS) and host monitoring (HIDS).…”

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A Hardware-in-the-Loop Water Distribution Testbed Dataset for Cyber-Physical Security Testing

Faramondi

Flammini

Guarino³

et al. 2021

IEEE Access

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This paper presents a dataset to support researchers in the validation process of solutions such as Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) based on artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques for the detection and categorization of threats in Cyber Physical Systems (CPS). To this end, data have been acquired from a hardware-in-the-loop Water Distribution Testbed (WDT) which emulates water flowing between eight tanks via solenoid-valves, pumps, pressure and flow sensors. The testbed is composed of a real subsystem which is virtually connected to a simulated one. The proposed dataset encompasses both physical and network data in order to highlight the consequences of attacks in the physical process as well as in network traffic behaviour. Simulations data are organized in four different acquisitions for a total duration of 2 hours by considering normal scenario and multiple anomalies due to cyber and physical attacks.

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A Survey of SCADA Testbed Implementation Approaches

Cited by 32 publications

References 2 publications

Low-cost web-based Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system for a microgrid testbed: A case study in design and implementation for academic and research applications

Low-cost web-based Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system for a microgrid testbed: A case study in design and implementation for academic and research applications

Application Perspective on Cybersecurity Testbed for Industrial Control Systems

A Hardware-in-the-Loop Water Distribution Testbed Dataset for Cyber-Physical Security Testing

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