# SCADA

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/scada/  
**Website:** https://www.isa.org/  
**APIs profiled:** 5

SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) is an industrial control system architecture used to monitor and control industrial processes, infrastructure, and facility-based equipment. It is widely used in manufacturing, energy, water treatment, oil and gas, transportation, and other critical infrastructure sectors to collect real-time data from remote sensors and control equipment. Modern SCADA systems increasingly expose REST APIs, OPC-UA endpoints, and MQTT brokers for integration with enterprise systems, cloud platforms, and AI/ML workloads.

## Kin Score — 19.9 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 19.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 14.7 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 13.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 9.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 2.5 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (5)

- **OPC Unified Architecture (OPC-UA)** — OPC-UA (IEC 62541) is the industrial interoperability standard for secure, reliable data exchange in industrial automation and IoT environments. It provides a platform-independe...
- **MQTT Protocol** — MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport, ISO/IEC 20922) is a lightweight pub/sub messaging protocol widely used in SCADA and IIoT applications for sensor data collection and d...
- **Modbus Protocol** — Modbus is a serial communication protocol widely used in industrial automation and SCADA systems for connecting electronic devices. Modbus TCP/IP enables integration over standa...
- **Ignition SCADA REST API** — Inductive Automation's Ignition SCADA platform provides a REST API for reading and writing tag values, managing alarms, retrieving historical data, and controlling system resour...
- **Historian and Alarm Data APIs** — SCADA historians store time-series process data for analysis, reporting, and compliance. Major historian vendors (OSIsoft PI, Aspen InfoPlus.21, GE Proficy Historian) expose RES...

## Security (1)

- **Scada Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Scada Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Critical Infrastructure, ICS, Industrial Automation, Industrial IoT, OT Security, SCADA

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/scada/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.