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Article: RTI Data Distribution Service Selected for Upgrade of Grand Coulee Dam's Control System.
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- Defense & Aerospace Week
- Article date:
- October 21, 2009
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Real-Time Innovations (RTI), The Real-Time Middleware Experts, announced that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has selected RTI Data Distribution Service for an upgrade of the Grand Coulee Dam's control system. RTI's middleware will integrate components of the dam's next-generation Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system, enabling more efficient and reliable hydroelectric power generation.
The Grand Coulee Dam is the largest hydropower plant in the United States. The plant must carefully control how it supplies power to the grid. Failures that cause power spikes or dropouts are not acceptable. The project to retrofit the control system is for the ...