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Remote monitoring and control refers to a field of industrial automation that is entering a new era with the development of wireless sensing devices. Initially limited to SCADA technology, remote monitoring and control refers to the measurement of disparate devices from an operations center or control room and the ability to change the operation of these devices from that central office.

'''Remote monitoring and control''' ('''M&C''') systems are designed to control large or complex facilities such as [[factory|factories]], [[power plant]]s, [[network operations center]]s, [[airport]]s, and [[spacecraft]], with some degree of [[automation]].

M&C systems may receive data from [[sensor]]s, [[telemetry]] streams, user inputs, and pre-programmed procedures. The software may send [[telecommand]]s to [[actuators]], computer systems, or other devices.

Today the application of remote monitoring and control extends from fields such as:

- Smart Grid

- Positive Train control

- Structural Health Monitoring

- Pipeline sensors

M&C systems may perform [[closed-loop control]].

While this field overlaps with machine to machine communications, the two are not identical.

Once limited to [[SCADA]] in industrial settings, remote monitoring and control is now applied in numerous fields, including:

* [[Smart grid]]s

-* [[Positive Traintrain control]]

* [[Structural health monitoring]]

-* Pipeline sensors

* Patient monitoring

* Desktop/server monitoring

While this field overlaps with [[Machine to Machine|machine to machine]] communications, the two are not completely identical.

== See also ==

*[[Control engineering]]

*[[Control room]]

*[[Control theory]]

*[[Instrument control]]

*[[Remote sensing]]

*[[Remote terminal unit]]

* [[M&C!]]

[[Category:Automation software]]

[[Category:Control engineering]]