SCADA side projects for technical depth
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Working in SCADA means understanding how data moves from field instruments through protocol layers, scaling conversions, quality assessment, alarm evaluation, and eventually into historians and visualization layers.
Side projects help model these flows end-to-end. Building simulators for point lifecycles, protocol ingestion services, and minimal HMI bindings forces you to understand the full stack.
Key areas to explore
- Point definition and scaling behavior
- Quality code propagation
- Alarm evaluation logic (ROC, high/low thresholds)
- Historian compression and timestamp handling
- Protocol polling (Modbus, DNP3) with timeout/retry logic
These projects provide hands-on experience with the fundamental behaviors that production SCADA systems rely on.