What is OPC? OPC (originally OLE for Process Control) is based on OLE/COM standard from Microsoft. This standard ensures exchange of data between industrial automation applications. It ensures high interoperability between client and server applications from multiple vendors. OPC Specifications The most common types of data used between devices and applications in industries are: Real-time data, […]
DCOM configuration for OPC communications
What is DCOM? DCOM stands for Distributed Component Object Model. It is a Microsoft technology used for RPC (Remote Procedure Call) systems to enable communication between COM-based applications over the network. Why do you need DCOM for OPC Classic? OPC DA (Data Access), A&E (Alarms & Events), and HDA (Historical Data Access) communications are based […]
MQTT – The IIoT protocol
What is MQTT? “MQTT stands for MQ Telemetry Transport. It is a publish/subscribe, extremely simple and lightweight messaging protocol, designed for constrained devices and low-bandwidth, high-latency or unreliable networks. The design principles are to minimize network bandwidth and device resource requirements whilst also attempting to ensure reliability and some degree of assurance of delivery. These […]
OPC UA IoT Broker: OPC UA to the Cloud data transfer
What is OPC UA IoT Broker? OPC UA IoT Broker greatly improves connectivity, efficiency, scalability, time savings, and cost savings for industrial organizations. Using the OPC UA standard with built-in support of Microsoft Azure IoT Hub, it creates a bridge between the people and systems on the plant floor with those at the enterprise level. […]
OPC UA Client Toolkit: For rapid programming of OPC UA Client software in.NET
Need to build your own OPC UA Client? The latest Integration Objects’ OPC UA Client toolkit release is a powerful and highly optimized API that allows fast and easy programming of OPC UA Client applications using .NET framework. This toolkit is a collection of libraries, classes and interfaces that enables rapid development by providing functions […]
Simulate real-time and historical data using OPC UA Server Simulator!
While upgrading to OPC UA standard, system integrators, developers or end-users need to test and analyze the effectiveness of OPC UA client applications with their own configurations. Things might become complicated when OPC UA Server is not a free tool to use. As part of solving this problem, Integration Objects recently released a free to […]
What is OPC UA?
OPC Unified Architecture (UA) is an industrial communication standard dedicated to the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). It provides a flexible mechanism for information exchange between enterprise-type systems and the kind of controls, monitoring devices and sensors that interact with real world data. Moreover, OPC UA is a platform independent service-oriented architecture that integrates all […]