SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) is a category of software application program for process control, the gathering of data in real time from remote locations in order to control equipment and conditions.

The SCADA application is a fundamental application in the RFieldbus Manufacturing Field Trial. It is a windows multi-threaded application, responsible for coordinating the entire system. It acts together with the cooperating applications (Disk Color Detection [Master], Robot Arm Operator [Master]), working in the master PC, in order to effectively orchestrate the system's equipment through both TCP/IP and PROFIBUS communication.

Additionally, the SCADA application cooperates with the HMI in a complementary fashion. The SCADA application serves the HMI with information about the system events (sensors and actuators, control, errors, etc), so that the HMI is aware of the system's state and is able to both show this information in a user-friendly fashion and deliver part of this information to other system applications.