SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) is a system architecture that uses hardware and software to collect real-time data from sensors and equipment across industrial operations, enabling operators to supervise and control physical processes from a central interface.
SCADA systems are the control and data collection layer; Sift is the observability layer that sits above them. Where SCADA tells operators what is happening now, Sift enables engineers to analyze why it happened, compare behavior across test sessions, and detect anomalies across the full telemetry record.