1. Introduction to telemetry and supervisory control systems
General architecture
Sensors and actuators
Process/Sequential Control and Supervisory Control
Data acquisition systems
Data communications
Communication systems? components
OSI model; Topologies; Addressing; Error control; Flow control
Serial protocols; synchronous and asynchronous communications; modems
Ethernet and TCP/IP protocol stack; Quality of service
Wireless protocols (ZigBee, WiFi, GSM/GPRS/UMTS)

2. Project of telemetry and supervisory control systems
Remote Real-Time Systems
Definitions, basic concepts and history
Remote Units? specific requirements
Project techniques of Real-Time Systems
Robustness, reliability and fault-tolerance
Management Unit
Data model; Status, historical and alarm information
Data processing and storage
User interfacing
Privacy and security considerations
Redundant Systems.

- Stuart A. Boyer, SCADA: Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, 4th Ed., ISA, 2010.

- Michael Whitt, Successful Instrumentation and Control Systems Design, 2nd Ed. ISA, 2012

- John Cowley, Communications and Networking: An Introduction, 2ed., Springer, 2013

- Phillip A. Laplante and Seppo J. Ovaska, Real-Time Systems Design and Analysis: Tools for the Practitioner, 4ed., Wiley-IEEE Press, 2011