

The OPC Foundation is rolling out several new programs including what’s known as the OPC Foundation logo member program, which allows companies to use the OPC UA logo and list their OPC UA enabled products in what the OPC Foundation is calling the OPC Foundation Amazon of products catalog. There are also OPC UA server interface performance improvements. This major update includes native development of core OPC UA technology, which provides improved performance, enhanced diagnostics, and a solid foundation for continued OPC UA functionality enhancements. OPC UA diagnostics are now fully integrated, which dramatically enhances users’ ability to troubleshoot communication issues between clients and the server. On November 15, 2016, Kepware released KEPServerEX Version 6. OPC UA Native Implementation in KEPServerEX Ver. Actions can also be performed based on triggers like value-change, cycle, time, beacon-detected, beacon-updated, etc. One side the gateway speaks OPC UA, and on the other it speaks MQTT, HTTP, SQL over HTTPS (JDBC driver), FTP, AWS Kinesis, and other protocols. Other market applications include healthcare, home automation, and smart cities. The DeviceGateway is an OPC UA server for multiple vendor devices and vertical markets. In production sites, it can be directly connected to the production facilities (MES) and other IoT services. It supports OPC Data Access, OPC Historical Data Access and OPC Alarms & Events servers. OPC UA Wrapper acts as a bridge between classic OPC servers connected to the network and OPC UA clients by mapping the address space of classic OPC servers to the address space of an OPC UA server. Integration Objects announced today the release of its OPC UA Wrapper product. Integration Objects’ OPC UA Wrapper is a plug and play solution that enables OPC UA clients to communicate with classic OPC servers. Solution for the Next Generation of System Connectivity Highest security during transmission is guaranteed through the encryption of the data using SSL/TLS. IBM Bluemix Cloud, or Microsoft Azure Cloud. The new MQTT Connector enables the integration of automation devices via MQTT Publisher functionality in IoT cloud applications, e.g. This makes transfer of data to IoT Clouds using OPC UA over MQTT simple and secure. With Softing’s dataFEED OPC Suite, a secure IoT cloud data application can now be easily implemented. The new version of Softing’s dataFEED OPC Suite now includes an MQTT connector. Click a headline to read more about a specific product OPC Communication with Link to IoT Clouds
