1. BE-ICS-CIC
Communications and Informatics for Controls (CIC) Group meeting 24th November 2016
We are
~13 people.

2. Who are we?
We are
~13 people.

3. What we do?
Many CIC activities are transversal and involve people from other sections
Heterogeneous technologies : Java, Web, C++, DB…
Applications
UNICOS Application Builder
LHC Gas Control Systems
MOON
iCEDM
LHC Dashboard
DIP Contract Monitoring
DIP Repository and publication approval workflow
CERN-Wide Support
CANbus
DIP
OPC
Group Services
Automatic Release Service (ARES)
Web Infrastructure
Jira
SVN
Maven
Jenkins
VersionDog
Integration Tests
Terminal Servers
Development and
Research
Participation in JCOP and UNICOS Frameworks
Big data and Cloud Computing (with SDS)
QUASAR with ATLAS
OPC UA Servers for commercial power supplies
Note that many activities involve people from many sections.
Heterogenous section, many technologies used (Java, C++, Web, DB).
Deliver…
CERN wide support
middleware protocols OPC + DIP
and low level CANbus.
All three protocols used quite extensively in the experiments.
Applications
Used both within the BE-ICS group and outwith the group.
Some are turn key style applications, delivered to end-users (e.g. GCS)
Some are development frameworks (UNICOS for example)
Group Services (as a section, deliver)
Internal infrastructure, tools needed to support group development effort
R&D
Big data analysis
Anomolies detection and preventative maintenance.
* Data analytics, big data style analysis on control system output etc.

4. OPC Support for ~200 OPC-DA servers in production during 2016.
Significant investment in commercial power supply hardware (~40 MCHF).
OPC is the key stone for power supply integration in Detector Control Systems.
What is OPC?
Support for ~200 OPC-DA servers in production during 2016.
OPC-DA -> OPC-UA: replacement in next few years
Collaborative development on next-gen OPC-UA servers
Development agreements signed with hardware vendors
Collaborations throughout CERN (e.g. ATLAS: quasar framework)
Collaborations with other research institutions
Development and testing (OPC-UA) in progress
Production ready for start LS2
Hardware simulation project started in 2016
Testing
Training
Experimentation
SCADA
OPC Client
CAEN
OPC Server
Wiener
OPC Server
ISEG
OPC Server
UPDATE THIS SLIDE…\
COMPRESS OPC to single slide
Simulation
SCADA
OPC Client
Michael
CAEN
OPC Server
Wiener
OPC Server
ISEG
OPC Server
Simulated Hardware
Ben

5. CANbus Support Services provided during 2016
Hundreds of CAN interface hardware interfaces (Kvaser, Systec, Peak, Anagate…)
Connecting 1000’s of CAN nodes (power supplies, powered crates, ELMBs….)
Services provided during 2016
on-site diagnostics
market trends and technology evolution
Hardware evaluation and control system integration
General industry trend from USB -> ETH CAN hardware
Anagate ETH/CAN interface evaluated
13 ETH/CAN interfaces installed in CMS (~100 CAN lines)
Stable since February
Near future (EYETS)
Alice migration planned for USB -> ETH devices
OPC-UA CAN integration
Hardware agnostic
Cross platform
Currently in development/testing
Status
Thousands of CAN nodes connected via hundreds of CAN interfaces (Kvaser, SysTec, Anagate, Peak) over USB and Ethernet installed across Experiments (LHCx, NA62, Compass)
Achievements and support
Replacement of all CMS Systec Can interfaces(USB-CAN) with Anagate gateways(Ethernet-CAN)
13 Anagate gateways (~100 CAN busses) running steadily in production at CMS since February 2016
Released of couple of CAN Wrappers for new CAN Interfaces firmware
“Testing of OPC UA CAN Component API with the supported Systec and Anagate CAN interfaces” to check with inputs from BenTen”
Near Future (2016 EYETS)
Plans for migration some Alice DCS systems Systec based towards Anagate
Integration of new configuration functionalities to the Anagate Wrappers
What do we provide?
On site diagnostics
Follow market trends evolution
Evaluate new hardware solution (recently Ethernet-CAN interface from Analytica)
Integrate solution to Experiments DCS
Hardware agnostic, cross-platform CAN interface
Platform/hardware specific implementations
Geraldine

6. DIP Services provided during 2016
Middleware: data exchange between LHC experiments and CERN infrastructure
Over 44,000 active publications
Services provided during 2016
Infrastructure support
Interface/implementation support
Development started to manage complexity
Cross-group collaboration: C2MON based
Contract publication workflow
Monitored publication contracts
Development started to monitor status
Producer consumer visualisation
Metrics provided to MOON (monitoring)
Development started to simplify data access
TN -> GPN bridge
Publications available on web dashboard
COMPRESS DIP to single slide
Brice
Eleni

7. Gas Control System Applications
Turn-key application (developed across BE-ICS sections)
33 Gas Control Systems in production across experiments and accelerator chain
Services provided during 2016
General support and maintenance
New release for Autumn 2016 (CLOUD)
Integration to BE-ICS industrial controls piquet service
All gas systems: 24/7 support and monitoring
Team changes
Jacques Rochez retired
Responsibilities transferred (CIC, PCS, SDS sections)
Near future (EYETS)
Upgrades of existing gas systems
New gas system installations
ADD: shared between CIC and PCS and SDS
Status
33 Gas applications in production across LHC Experiments, LINAC4, NA62, CMSMixers and CLOUD
Team changes
(Summer 2016) Departure to retirement of Jacques Rochez (GCS Front-End Layer expert)
Transfer of Jacques’s GCS PLC activities to Marc Quilichini
Transfer of CMS Mixers, NA62, LINAC4 projects coordination and supervision development to Geraldine Thomas
Join of Jonas Arroyo as supervision layer expert for all GCS projects
Achievements and Support
New software released for Autumn 2016 CLOUD Run
Integration of all GCS applications to support service (ICS SBS, LHC logging, etc…) 24/7 support
Several software upgrades made for both PLC and supervision layers during the 2016 TS
Near Future (2016 EYETS)
Plans for upgrade of existing gas systems (CMS CSC, Alice TPC, Alice MTR) and new gas systems to come (CMS GEM, ATLAS TRO)
Geraldine
Jonas
Marc
Jacques

8. Diagnostics: MOON and MARS
Monitoring system for all BE-ICS industrial controls applications
Central tool for the BE-ICS industrial controls piquet service
Services provided during 2016
Monitored 185 WinCCOA applications
Monitored 138 data server hosts
Monitored 409 PLCs
Monitored 94 FECs
~2,050,000 alarms filtered to 23 piquet service notifications
New in 2016
Monitoring of IT switches and Web Services
Dedicated views for CV, GCS and Collimators
MARS – new project
Simplifies piquet service hardware interventions
Data gathered from multiple sources
Displayed in unified interface
Mobile and web
Stanislaw
ADD: shared between CIC and PCS and SDS
Status
33 Gas applications in production across LHC Experiments, LINAC4, NA62, CMSMixers and CLOUD
Team changes
(Summer 2016) Departure to retirement of Jacques Rochez (GCS Front-End Layer expert)
Transfer of Jacques’s GCS PLC activities to Marc Quilichini
Transfer of CMS Mixers, NA62, LINAC4 projects coordination and supervision development to Geraldine Thomas
Join of Jonas Arroyo as supervision layer expert for all GCS projects
Achievements and Support
New software released for Autumn 2016 CLOUD Run
Integration of all GCS applications to support service (ICS SBS, LHC logging, etc…) 24/7 support
Several software upgrades made for both PLC and supervision layers during the 2016 TS
Near Future (2016 EYETS)
Plans for upgrade of existing gas systems (CMS CSC, Alice TPC, Alice MTR) and new gas systems to come (CMS GEM, ATLAS TRO)
Fernando
Montse

9. Asset Maintenance Common data schema for PLC parts, categories, store
Definition of Preventive and corrective maintenance procedures for both SW and HW [in progress]
ICS delegate in the BE-AMM Forum
Tools: iCEDM
Data collection from InforEAM, LANDB, MOON, GIS, ADAMS, IMPACT, TIMDB, LASERDB
Uwe
Common schema/structure for the equipment/hardware (asset) data and link to the functional position for more than 300 applications
Maintenance of Equipment in schedule
Data analysis: aggregation of information coming from different DBs (i.e. different aliases names)

10. UNICOS Application Builder
Automatic generation of all UNICOS applications at CERN (+200)
Significant simplification of the workflow to generate PLC-base code
Integration of PLC tools to create new projects and compile
New Reverse Engineering tools
From PLC code back to Specifications
Code generation from templates
New Reverse engineering tool for specs
Ivan
Stanislaw
Jeffrey

11. New Developments - ARES
Automatic RElease Service (ARES)
Single mouse-click building, testing and releasing of software components: from the SVN repository to the web
Significant reduction of time required to produce a new release for all developers
Ivan
Uwe
Compile
Test
Package
Integration test
Install
Svn tag
Deploy
All unicos and JCOP components for both release producing and pushing
Workflow management to approve before publishing
Publish

12. Integration with C2MON* (in progress)
LHC Dashboard
Montserrat
Eleni
Brice
Integration with C2MON* (in progress)
Live LHC data broadcasting
Open-source standards: websocket, highcharts
Mobile-friendly layouts
Embeddable on any third-party website
Multiple data-sources
Integration with LHC Logging DB (Cryo temperatures, beam screens, LHC luminosity …)
Daily extraction into a dedicated, web-capable data storage (ElasticSearch)
* Thanks to Matthias and Justin for their support

13. Data Analytics for Controls
Design and develop big data analytical solution to improve the robustness, reliability and performance of the CERN control systems
Flavia
Filippo
Machine-Learning algorithms for anomaly detection
Recommendation system for WinCC OA users
Analytical indicators for alarms/events mining (based on CEP)
Integration of the control analytical platform with the IT Hadoop/Spark cluster
Interactive data analytics development based on web-application
Deployment of jobs from development VM
Distributed algorithm to detect cryogenics valve oscillations
Anomaly storing and reporting
Collaboration between CIC, SDS, PCS sections
On going collaboration with Siemens since 2009
Anomaly

14. Overview Un-interrupted operation of all services with no downtime
DIP service,
200 OPC servers in the Experiments
Gas Control System
Monitoring of the controls infrastructure (MOON)
Concurrent user access (>200) to production applications through Terminal Servers
Deployment of new services in production
Versiondog
ARES
+200 new applications generated by UAB
Ethernet-CANbus interfaces (100) in CMS
New Developments & Research
MARS
Data analytics for controls