Good luck on the thesis and I hope my data points can assist your research! I’m sure the community would love to see your finished thesis when it is done

“is usually written by an over worked engineer”

I’m in this post and I don’t like it.

But really these scada systems are rarely well defined by the time implementation happens. Often the architect has a great plan, but by the time it’s passed to a manager, a non-software engineer, to the product engineer to the automation team to the contractor the end result is “X data is pushed in With Y form and we use either a,b,or c date time stamp any nobody knows”