Build Your Own Scada (BYOS) was originally developed in 1985 to allow the Lakewood, Ohio Waste Water Treatment Plant to monitor and control a network of Allen-Bradley PLC-2's using an IBM PC. BYOS provided a graphical user interface a year before Microsoft introduced the Windows product. The emphasis was on the ease-of-use and on enabling operators to modify views of the plant in response to changing plant conditions.
In 1995, BYOS was rewritten to allow remote monitoring from any computer with an Internet browser. The latest version of BYOS is written entirely in JAVA in order to achieve platform independence and scalability.
BYOS has been running 24/7 in several facilities with an exceptional record of reliability and data integrity.