In addition to preventing rogue clients from hijacking available bandwidth from critical applications, Scheduler Plug-In of KEPServerEX® v5.17 lets users move scheduling of data requests from client to server. Included EFM Suite, comprising drivers and Electronic Flow Measurement (EFM) exporters, allows polling of real-time and historical EFM data from pipeline flow computers and RTUs. Also, Local Historian Plug-In supports OPC Historical Data Access (HDA) processed read requests.