Web based monitoring and control of industrial processes

Abstract Nowadays the Internet is playing a very important role in different domains. During the previous years a lot of research has been done for trying to develop applications, which make it possible to supervise and control industrial processes using the World Wide Web. Although different experiments have proven that this technology has a great impact in the future there are still some problems. These problems concern architectures, requirement specifications, and security aspects. This report will give a brief overview about the design methods and architectures developed so far for the Internet-based process control systems and also about the problems concerning security aspects