12月14日——数据采集和监控(SCADA)市场是全球增长最快的控制系统市场之一。由于对水电和污水基础设施更新需求的增加，西欧和北美市场将在未来数年持续扩大。中东、非洲、亚太、拉丁美洲以及俄罗斯在油气、电力、水和污水等领域的新投资也将刺激SCADA市场在这些地区的快速发展。制造商面临的主要市场挑战是确保加强网络安全性。

　　Frost & Sullivan一份新的分析报告——“全球SCADA市场战略分析”——表明该市场在2009年取得了45.845亿美元的营收，预计到2016年这一数字将达到69.024亿美元。该研究覆盖了以下行业的终端用户：油气、电力、水和污水和其他覆盖工厂级别SCADA的行业（食品，饮料，医药，化工，纸浆和纸），以及汽车和运输。软件、硬件以及服务是该研究涉及的一些产品类别。

　　Frost & Sullivan研究分析师Katarzyna Owczarczyk表示：“西伯利亚、北海、墨西哥湾、西北非的石油勘探获得了新利益。控制地理位置上分散资产的需求使得资金雄厚的石油巨头们投资于SCADA系统，从而支持市场的扩大。”

　　此外，天然气由于其相对清洁的排放、相对低廉的价格以及丰富的存量而在全球能源市场越来越重要，因此替代石油和煤炭用于发电。将气体传输到终端用户所用到的管道要求SCADA监测泄露、流量、路线安排，从而进一步扩大市场规模。

　　Owczarczyk补充道：“实施之后，管道分配的设想将为提供SCADA系统的自动化企业创造大量的机会。对SCADA解决方案的需求将大幅增长，因为分配将涉及天然气的长距离运输。”

　　制造商在全球SCADA市场面临的主要挑战之一是确保加强网络安全性。Owczarczyk指出：“大部分的SCADA供应商已经开始为基于TCP/IP的SCADA网络开发专门的工业防火墙和VPN解决方案，解决网络威胁的风险。另外，越来越多的应用被实施于控制系统，旨在在不影响一般反病毒扫描性能的情况下，防止非授权的应用改变。”

　　此外，ISA安全遵从研究所（ISCI）正在致力于规范SCADA安全性测试。由ISA99第4工作组定义的标准将取代原有的工业测试和认证标准，但在2011年之前这可能不会实现。

　　Owczarczyk总结道：“那些能意识到对网络安全性、灵活开放系统有需求但同时满足不断增长的以有竞争力的价格获得先进软件的客户期望的供应商，将在未来的十年获得生存。供应商还应该教育工厂工程师和操作人员，以及系统集成商和其他SCADA开发者关于安全性的重要性。”

December 15, 2010 - The Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) market is among the most rapidly growing control systems markets in the world. Markets in Western Europe and North America will continue expanding over the next few years due to the increasing demand to modernise power and water and wastewater infrastructure. New infrastructure investments in the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific, Latin America and Russia in sectors like oil and gas, power, water and wastewater, will also spur SCADA markets to grow rapidly in these regions. The key market challenge manufacturers have to face is ensuring enhanced cyber security.

New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Strategic Analysis of the World SCADA Market, finds that the market earned revenues of $4,584.5 million in 2009 and estimates this to reach $6,902.4 million in 2016. The following end user sectors are covered in this research: oil and gas, power, water and wastewater and others covering plant level SCADA (food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, pulp and paper) and automotive and transportation. Software, hardware and services are some of the product categories covered in this research.

“Oil exploration in Siberia, the North Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and North Western Africa has gained renewed interest,” notes Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Katarzyna Owczarczyk. “The need to control geographically dispersed assets drives cash rich oil majors to invest in SCADA systems, thereby supporting market expansion.”

Moreover, natural gas is becoming increasingly important in the energy market globally due to its comparatively clean emissions, relatively low price, and abundant availability, therefore being an alternative to oil and coal for electricity generation. The gas pipelines needed to reach end users require SCADA monitoring for leaks, flow, and routing, further promoting market expansion.

“The concept of piped distribution, when implemented, will create numerous opportunities for automation companies in terms of supplying SCADA systems,” remarks Owczarczyk. “Demand for SCADA solutions will surge since distribution will involve the transportation of gas for long distances.”

One of the key challenges that manufacturers face in the world SCADA market is ensuring enhanced cyber security. "A great majority of SCADA vendors have started to address the risks of cyber threats by developing lines of specialised industrial firewall and VPN solutions for TCP/IP-based SCADA networks,” states Owczarczyk. “Additionally, more and more applications are being implemented to the control systems in order to prevent unauthorized application changes without impacting the performances of common antivirus scans.”

Furthermore, the ISA Security Compliance Institute (ISCI) is emerging to formalise SCADA security testing. Standards defined by ISA99 WG4 will supersede the previous industry testing and certification efforts, but probably not before 2011.

“Manufacturers that recognise challenges such as the need for cyber security, flexible and open systems while meeting rising customer expectations for advanced software at competitive prices will survive over the next decade” – concludes Owczarczyk. “Vendors should also educate plant engineers and operators, as well as system integrators and other SCADA developers about the importance of security.”

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