OPC UA for Cloud Initiative As OPC UA is communication-protocol-independent, additional mappings to established communication protocol standards needed to be added to the specification for OPC UA PubSub, namely UDP for Field Level communication and MQTT for Cloud communication. Major cloud suppliers, AWS, Google Cloud, IBM, Microsoft Azure, Siemens Mindsphere, SAP and Alibaba Cloud, committed […]
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OPC UA eBook (v16): Interoperability for Industrie 4.0 and the Internet of Things
OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) is the information exchange standard for secure, reliable, manufacturer- and platform-independent industrial communications. It enables data exchange between products from different manufacturers and across operating systems. The OPC UA standard is based on specifications that were developed in close cooperation between manufacturers, users, research institutes and consortia, in order to […]
OPC UA eBook (v15): Interoperability for Industrie 4.0 and the Internet of Things
OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) is the information exchange standard for secure, reliable, manufacturer- and platform-independent industrial communications. It enables data exchange between products from different manufacturers and across operating systems. The OPC UA standard is based on specifications that were developed in close cooperation between manufacturers, users, research institutes and consortia, in order to […]
OPC UA eBook (4th edition): Users and Experts – Conveying Knowledge and Experience
The OPC Foundation publishes a series of interviews with experts, market leaders and think tanks in communication, automation and industrial IT to highlight the benefits and the potential of the OPC UA technology for end users, system integrators, operators in the world of industrial IoT. Download the ebook edition to learn more about Companion Specifications, the […]
OPC UA, protocol for automation is now global standard of interoperability for Industry40
During the previous OPC Day Europe of 2015 on the site of Microsoft Corp. in Paris many news were revealed regarding the emerging OPC UA (Unified Architecture) protocol promoted by the OPC Foundation. These included three activities: completion of work on the Global Discovery Service (GDS), advancement in Publication / Subscription (Pub / Sub) mechanism specifications […]