How to use SCADA as an App in Smartphone

Need an app for your SCADA? Do you know you can turn your own SCADA into an app in few seconds?

It is no news that you can access your SCADA/HMI by web browsers, even in smartphones or tablets. But the best and fastest way to add your SCADA project as an icon on your home screen. In this way it is as if you are turning it into an app, and can easily launch it in ONE tap.

The ordinary way (steps):
1. Tap browser app
2. Find bookmark URL / Type URL for SCADA project
3. Enter the URL

The Best & Fastest way:
1. Tap app icon

To add the SCADA app icon to home screen, simply follow the steps below.

Launch the browser app from your smartphone or tablet (despite any Operating System). For example, the Chrome browser app. Then type or open the URL for your IGX SCADA project, as shown in a smartphone screenshot below.

how to add URL link as icon in smartphone tablet homescreen

Then, tap on the top right corner to reveal the menu (it should be a drop down with listed options). Then select the option for “Add to Home screen“, as shown in screenshot below.

how to add URL link as icon in smartphone tablet homescreen

After that, you can notice an additional app icon now appeared in your homescreen, which is the shortcut to your SCADA system. You can now simply tap on it and open the HMI of your SCADA project instantly.