PULSE™

Afcon’s Advanced Series of Command & Control Platforms Brings Digital Transformation to Control & Automation Systems.

Challenged by your business needs?

Want to improve your operations and do more for less?
Need to take control of a growing heterogeneous environment?
Want to adopt new technologies while protecting Legacy investments?
The PULSE™ series of advanced Command & Control platforms can expertly manage a wide variety of digitized Control & Automation systems

Swiftly Changing Industrial Environments

Our world is changing rapidly. New technologies are emerging faster and faster, bringing many benefits, but also creating challenges for organizations. These changes blur the boundaries between traditional parts of the organization such as Information technologies (IT) and Operations technologies (OT). All these require organizations to be flexible and find the right way to embrace and deploy new innovative technologies, while protecting their past investments. This is where the PULSE™ suite of products fits in perfectly.

PULSE™ Command & Control Platform

Originally used for Command & Control solutions of SCADA/HMI industrial Control & Automation systems, PULSE™ has over the years become a robust Command & Control platform in a wide range of fields. With its increased efficiency, usability, superior visualization capabilities and highly secured, reliable and scalable platform, it raises the standard of Command & Control solutions for organizations of any size.

Bringing Digital Transformation to Control & Automation

Afcon has 30 years of experience providing industry recognized Command & Control software platforms. During this time we’ve also been continuously investing in innovation and keeping pace with the rapid changes of the markets. This rich experience has all been channeled into the creation of PULSE™ – the ideal solution for management, command and control for industrial grade systems. It is robust and scalable and can manage a variety of systems from traditional industrial environments, all the way to large scale IoT deployments, such as Smart Factories and Smart Cities.

Enhanced Support for Emerging Environments

PULSE™ has recently been upgraded and further developed to work in the emerging environments of IoT and Cloud computing. It now also provides solutions for Big Data and Analytics, either as part of the product, or through integration with 3^rd party business partners, who provide expert solutions for specific needs.

PULSE™ is the ideal Command & Control platform for the following solutions:

PULSE™ Smart BMS
PULSE™ Smart Industrial Automation
PULSE™ Smart Security
PULSE™ Smart Iot
PULSE™ Smart City
PULSE™ Based Customized Solutions

Data Availability, Flexibility and Analysis

With PULSE™, all vital data is always easily available, whenever you want it, wherever you are. Due to its high flexibility and reliability, data can be accessed easily and securely either in the cloud, or remotely on premise.

PULSE™ also brings data to life, with great visualization capabilities. Look and feel for the workspace is rendered in 3D graphics, providing designers with the most updated working environment. In addition, PULSE™ provides reporting tools and graphs that are easy to develop and use, as well as advanced big data analytics that provide you with actionable intelligence. With PULSE™, executives need only take one look in order to understand the full picture as well as the finer details.

Cyber-Secured SCADA

With the growing use of smart Command & Control software systems, and their wide adoption in a variety of solutions from Legacy industrial systems up to large scale IoT deployments, these critical facilities become attractive targets for cyber attacks. Nowadays, protecting these critical infrastructures is one of the top priorities of governments and regulation authorities.

PULSE™ is developed under the strictest and highest standards of security and its core technologies are cyber-protected. With PULSE™ not only can you effectively run your Control & Automation systems, but you can feel safe and secure doing so, knowing your most critical infrastructures and data are protected.

Design and Development of Apps

To further augment the effectiveness of the system, PULSE™ provides engineers and project managers with an easy to use application generator that allows them to develop their own applications, designed and customized to their specific needs. The generator is one of the most advanced tools available for developing applications for process visualization, data acquisition, control actions and reporting and analysis, over a variety of environments and applications. In this way, PULSE™ enables executives and managers to maximize the power of data analytics and intelligence for the benefit of operational and business excellence.

Designed for a Fast Changing World

PULSE™ is tuned into today’s rhythm, enabling designers, engineers and decision makers to work in full collaboration over the net and help maximize productivity, providing a robust, powerful platform already compatible with today’s technologies, ready to meet the growing demands and changing needs down the road.

Protocols

It’s All About Communication

As a leading Command & Control platform, PULSE™ must be able to handle and communicate with the maximum variety of protocols.

Beginning as a pioneer in the SCADA/HMI market, PULSE™ has developed into a world leading Smart IoT Command & Control platform that leads the industry by providing protocol support for more than 200 native drivers. This includes most of the leading vendors of hardware, machines and controllers in industrial automation, electricity, BMS, security, fire & safety, IoT markets and more.

PLC Drivers and Protocols

Afcon’s Software & Electronics’ communication driver development team keeps PULSE™ up to date technologically, by supporting the newest versions of the leading PLC brands’ drivers and protocols. At the same time, PULSE™ continues to support the legacy products of the same PLC families, helping our customers protect their past investments.

Custom Designed Drivers

We also develop native device drivers for specific and unique industrial or BMS equipment, on demand. This includes everything from designing the requirements up to releasing the approved and tested driver.

OPC Support

In addition to supporting and maintaining native communication drivers, PULSE™ also supports OPC (Open Platform Communication) as a server and/or client, so in cases where there is no support for the native communication driver, PULSE™ can communicate through the OPC client\gateway modules.

Stringent QA

All our drivers undergo a strict QA process, verifying their compatibility with the standards and correct operations with simulators and actual field equipment.

PULSE™ Security

Ensures the secured operations of critical environments
Encryption of all Client/Server communication and user passwords/permissions
Server side only storage of files, settings, communications and information
A multi-level authorization policy
A sterile software development environment

Cyber security for critical infrastructure is based on an understanding and awareness of the real-world threats and vulnerabilities that exist within the industrial Automation & Control system architectures used in most processing industries and manufacturing facilities. These issues threaten the SCADA and command and control systems that comprise most industrial environments, and impact not only the common IT infrastructure, such as Windows-based computers and network appliances (switches, routers, and firewalls), but also the SCADA software itself.

PULSE™, built for secured operations of critical environments, is developed according to strict security regulations, in a sterilized environment, including advanced user management permission policies, encrypted data communications and an encrypted audit trail.

Comprehensive Product Level Information Security

The information security that PULSE™ provides at the product infrastructure level includes:

Client/Server architecture
All project files, server settings, communications and information saved on the server side only
Encrypted Client/Server communication, preventing buffer-overflow & man-in-the-middle attacks
All Client-side input validations are authenticated on the server side (SQL Injection Prevention)
All information about the user’s passwords/ permissions is encrypted in the database.
User authentication policies within Active Directory are automatically imported to PULSE™, to define personal attributes for each user
All operator and application development activities are logged to an encrypted audit trail
Multi-level authorization policy, including geographical and functional classification