Platform integrating contextual data for supervisory control and data acquisition (scada)

A system for controlling one or more industrial machines based on external contextual data and monitoring data of a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system, comprising:

• a set of one or more processors;
• and
• a non-transitory storage medium comprising code executable by the set of one or more processors to:
• obtain, using an application programming interface (API), the external contextual data from one or more external sources;
• identify, using the set of one or more processors, monitoring data comprising one or more alarms obtained from one or more remote terminal units (RTUs) associated with the one or more industrial machines;
• integrate, using the set of one or more processors, the external contextual data with the monitoring data to form a combined display of the external contextual data and the monitoring data;
• provide data that visually associates the external contextual data and the one or more alarms in the combined display;
• and
• thereafter communicate a control instruction to the one or more industrial machines, via the one or more RTUs, the control instruction configured to change the state of the one or more industrial machines to address the one or more alarms.

A computer program product for controlling one or more industrial machines based on external contextual data and monitoring data of a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system, comprising:

• a non-transitory computer readable medium comprising code executable by a set of one or more processors to:
• obtain, using an application programming interface (API), the external contextual data from one or more external sources;
• identify, using the set of one or more processors, monitoring data comprising one or more alarms obtained from one or more remote terminal units (RTUs) associated with the one or more industrial machines;
• integrate, using the set of one or more processors, the external contextual data with the monitoring data to form a combined display of the external contextual data and the monitoring data;
• provide data that visually associates the external contextual data and the one or more alarms in the combined display;
• and
• thereafter communicate a control instruction to the one or more industrial machines, via the one or more RTUs, the control instruction configured to change the state of the one or more industrial machines to address the one or more alarms.