WITS is an established protocol and a data definition for the information generated during drilling activities. Controlstar System Ltd WITS Server is a flexible 8-serial port device (one port can both receive and transmit WITS data streams), each port is totally user configurable.

The WITS Server allows standard serial and WITS over TCP/IP Connectivity. It supports an optional remote mirrored server. The WITS hardware includes Raid. Controlstar Systems Ltd has enhanced it’s own SCADA to provide online configuration facilities for the individual drilling engineers. Process displays and specialised display elements such as graphical trends can be combined according to the individual users preference. Each users MMI configuration settings is protected by password. The administrative user readily configures the routing of the individual WITS data elements between the source and destination ports, if necessary the naming of the variables can be changed.

The functionality of the Controlstar® unit itself has been extended to generate and receive WITS based packages over either a serial link or TCP/IP. The Controlstar® is an easily configurable WITS Gateway. These functions are supported through Controlstar Systems Ltd own Licence free ‘Fusion’ tool.