Catapult iPower SCADA was developed with electric utilities in mind, including Rural Cooperatives, Municipal Authorities and Independent Distribution Utilities. Based on GE Intelligent Platforms’s Proficy iFIX, Catapult iPower makes SCADA easy to use, own and configure.

Shrink-wrapped SCADA products produced for large markets like factory automation offer genuine advantages. These high-volume sellers generate the revenue needed to keep pace with the constantly advancing software industry. The best of these products have delivered their customers the latest in control systems technology and software technology for year after year. But operator-centric applications like electric utility SCADA have critical operational and safety requirements not well addressed by these main-stream products. These customers have had to seek out smaller players, developing specifically for their market. The obvious trade-off is niche software that is typically expensive and frequently struggling to stay up to date. iPower solves this dilemma by delivering the best of both worlds: iPower is based on market heavy-weight ‘Proficy iFIX'. Owned by GE Intelligent Platforms, iFIX has been a consistent market leader for over 15 years. iPower customers get the rich software environment and SCADA market leading technology that is iFIX. They also get the complete environment needed to safely operate an electricity network or other critical, operator-centric processes.

iPower greatly reduces graphics configuration time, typically the single most expensive job in a new SCADA system. For example a single drag-and drop of a CB or transformer onto an iPower picture typically replaces as many steps in a traditional SCADA system. Dropping say a transformer image onto a display might also configure the display of MW, MVAR and transformer tap control/indication, plus create an auxiliary screen displaying the 20-30 other indications commonly associated with a transformer. iPower systems are also inherently consistent and easy to maintain. Implementing an iPower system is faster, less expensive and lower risk than a traditional SCADA implementation.

iPower Capabilities

• Easy to Use - Catapult’s iPower SCADA has been developed with the user in mind, making everything about it easy. The safe, intuitive and familiar Windows environment makes Catapult’s iPower SCADA very easy to use, which means less time and money needs to be spent on training staff.
• Easy to Configure - Catapult’s iPower SCADA has been developed with a range of tools that make installation and configuration easier and quicker than ever before, saving valuable staff time and resources.
• Easy to Own - Catapult’s iPower SCADA has automation tools that drastically reduce the cost of installation and ownership, making it easy for even small utilities to buy, install and maintain their own SCADA.
• Based on GE Intelligent Platforms - Catapult iPower SCADA software has been developed on the proven platform of GE Intelligent Platforms’s Proficy HMI/SCADA - iFIX software. GE Intelligent Platforms’s SCADA has been a market leader for 15+ years. With thousands of systems installed around the globe, it has been proven in the field for more hours than any other SCADA product.