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# [[Embedded HTTP server|Embedded web-servers]]

Increasingly, and ironically, DCS are becoming centralised at plant level, with the ability to log into the remote equipment. This enables operator to control both at enterprise level ( macro ) and at the equipment level (micro), both within and outside the plant, asbecause the importance of the physical ___location drops due to interconnectivity primarily duethanks to wireless and remote access has shrunk.

AsThe more wireless protocols are developed and refined, DCSthe increasinglymore includesthey wirelessare communicationincluded in DCS. DCS controllers are now often equipped with embedded servers and provide on-the-go web access. Whether DCS will lead Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) or borrow key elements from remains to be establishedseen.

Many vendors provide the option of a mobile HMI, ready for both [[Android (operating system)|Android]] and [[iOS]]. With these interfaces, the threat of security breaches and possible damage to plant and process are now very real.