Korean slang profile
SCADA
scada
Remote-facility monitoring and control
An abbreviation for a system collecting data from remote facilities and centrally monitoring and controlling their status.
- Expanded form
- Supervisory Control and Data AcquisitionSupervisory Control and Data Acquisition
- Other spellings
- 에스시에이디에이, 스카다
- Earliest source found
- Feb 16, 2009
- Documented trend period
- Not verified
This is the earliest source we have verified, not the date the term was coined.
01Examples, with English translations
- Example by Julimmal
설비 담당자는 SCADA 화면에서 여러 현장의 상태를 확인했다.
The facilities manager checked several sites’ conditions on the SCADA screen.
02Documented history
- 2009-02-16A 2009 ZDNet Korea column directly gives SCADA’s expanded English form and uses it in the context of centralized management and control.[1]
03Origin & word formation
A 2009 ZDNet Korea column directly gives SCADA’s expanded English form and uses it in the context of centralized management and control. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationHigh
The formal name, definition, and independent abbreviation in the text were directly compared. The first naming and use have not been verified. Rather than reproducing Contol from the official collection’s expanded form, it was compared with Control in the 2009 column.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- [칼럼]재미라고 하기엔 두려운 SCADA & DCS (ZDNet Korea)Published Feb 16, 2009Original source checked Nov 14, 2026
- 2009년 신어 자료집 (국립국어원·전주대학교 한국어문화원)Published 2010Original source checked Nov 14, 2026