Telemetry SCADA for geographically distributed water, oil and gas assets, formerly ClearSCADA
As of 1 September 2026, EcoStruxure Geo SCADA Expert's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. The product sold for years as ClearSCADA is now EcoStruxure Geo SCADA Expert; the ClearSCADA name is retired and cannot be bought. Softwr lists it under Utilities. EcoStruxure Geo SCADA Expert is made by Schneider Electric, available on Windows, Web.
Overview
Geo SCADA Expert is Schneider Electric's SCADA product for distributed telemetry: water and wastewater networks, oil and gas gathering, pipelines and remote pumping and lift stations. It combines a historian, alarm management, redundant servers and a driver stack heavy on the protocols that dial-up, radio and cellular telemetry actually use, including DNP3 with its full outstation feature set, IEC 60870-5 and Modbus over unreliable transports. It was called ClearSCADA under Control Microsystems and then Schneider; that name is gone and searching for it will find historical documentation, not a current product. What distinguishes it from plant SCADA is the assumption that most sites are unreachable most of the time. Geo SCADA stores and forwards, reconciles time-stamped data from outstation logs after a link returns, and holds a database designed for tens of thousands of points spread across thousands of low-bandwidth sites. That is a different engineering problem from a factory with a fibre backbone, and it is why water utilities keep buying it despite Schneider's broader push toward the EcoStruxure brand. Buyers are water and wastewater utilities, midstream oil and gas operators, and their system integrators. The trade-off is the licensing model and the vendor relationship: servers are licensed in point bands starting around 250 points and scaling into the millions, ViewX desktop clients and Virtual ViewX web clients are licensed separately and in bundles, and nothing is published. Discounting is heavily dependent on existing entitlement, so an incumbent Geo SCADA customer and a new one can get very different numbers for the same configuration.
The honest half
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Cross-shopped
Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.
Schneider Electric EcoStruxure: If the wider requirement is electrical distribution and building systems as well as telemetry, the broader EcoStruxure portfolio covers ground Geo SCADA does not.
Ignition: For a utility that wants unlimited tags and clients on one server licence and can live with a smaller telemetry-specific driver set, Ignition is far cheaper at scale.
AVEVA PI System: If the real need is long-term operational history and analysis rather than control and alarming, PI does that better and sits alongside any SCADA.
Pricing
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
EcoStruxure Geo SCADA Expert
On request
Capabilities
Point-banded server licence
Server licensed by point count from roughly 250 points up into the millions
Telemetry protocol stack
DNP3, IEC 60870-5 and Modbus with outstation log retrieval over intermittent links
Store and forward reconciliation
Backfills historian gaps from outstation buffers with original time stamps when a link recovers
ViewX and Virtual ViewX
Windows desktop client and browser client, licensed separately from the server
Redundant server pairs
Hot standby with automatic promotion, configured rather than custom-built
Embedded historian and alarms
Historian and alarm management in the core product rather than as separate purchases
Answered, with sources
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No. The product is sold as EcoStruxure Geo SCADA Expert. ClearSCADA is a retired name and current quotes will use the new one.
By point count, in bands starting around 250 points and scaling to over a million on a single server. Clients are licensed on top, individually or in bundles.
Yes, unlicensed development mode runs up to 1,000 points for two hours at a time. That is a prototyping tool, not a pilot.
No. Plant SCADA is the former Citect product for plant-floor supervisory control. Geo SCADA is the former ClearSCADA product for distributed telemetry. Different codebases, different problems.
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