{"id":22191,"date":"2026-07-30T15:17:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T13:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robox.it\/?p=22191"},"modified":"2026-07-30T15:17:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T13:17:03","slug":"rde-custom-hmi-development-and-virtual-scada-systems-in-a-single-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robox.it\/en\/rde-custom-hmi-development-and-virtual-scada-systems-in-a-single-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"RDE: custom HMI development and virtual SCADA systems in a single environment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The evolution of automation architectures requires development tools capable of combining design simplicity, scalability, and integration with machine and plant infrastructure. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robox.it\/en\/product\/rde-robox-development-environment\/\" data-type=\"product\" data-id=\"15578\">RDE<\/a> fits into this context as the Robox Motion Control development environment designed to create <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robox.it\/en\/products\/hmi-human-machine-interface\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"18915\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HMI <\/a>applications and supervision systems starting from a single project base. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Within <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robox.it\/en\/product\/rde-robox-development-environment\/\" data-type=\"product\" data-id=\"15578\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RDE<\/a>, <strong>RDT <\/strong>(Robox Display Tool) is available as the module dedicated to the design of human-machine interfaces, enabling the development of customized operator panels that can be adapted to different application requirements. The environment provides a complete set of graphic objects, including: <\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>configurable action buttons,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>combo boxes,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>list boxes,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>static and dynamic images,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>text fields (static, dynamic, editable),<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>slider,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>trend,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>container<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>prefab<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">as well as advanced features such as macros, user management with passwords, recipes, alarm history, contextual help, and multilingual support.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The developed interfaces can communicate with field devices via<strong> TCP\/IP and serial connections<\/strong>, directly linking graphic objects to automation variables. The same project can be run both on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robox.it\/en\/categoria\/products\/hmi-human-machine-interface-2-en\/robox-rhmi-en\/\" data-type=\"product_cat\" data-id=\"235\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RHMI <\/a>operator panels, fanless embedded terminals based on ARM architecture, and on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robox.it\/en\/product\/rig8-as6014-001\/\" data-type=\"product\" data-id=\"3030\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RIG-8<\/a> handheld terminal, also based on an ARM processor. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks to the <strong>RTM runtime<\/strong>, applications can also be run on Windows and Linux PCs, turning the HMI project into a software-based supervision system without requiring any changes to the application code. This approach makes it easy to extend the operator interface toward <strong>virtual SCADA<\/strong> configurations, while maintaining a single development environment and simplifying management of the entire application lifecycle. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RDT (Robox Display Tool): the project within RDE dedicated to the design of customized operator interfaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":22162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"%%post_title%% %%sep%% %%sitetitle%% %%sep%% %%sitetitle%%","_seopress_titles_desc":"RDT (Robox Display Tool): the project within RDE dedicated to the design of customized operator interfaces.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[742],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robox.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robox.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robox.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robox.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robox.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robox.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robox.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robox.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robox.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robox.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}