Protocol

OPC UA

OPC Unified Architecture

Lab ready Full lab

Platform-independent industrial information model with secure channels, sessions, subscriptions, and monitored items. Binary UA-TCP and HTTPS transports are common; PubSub adds cyclic datagram distribution. Companion specs define domain models from robotics to machine vision.

Domains

Tags

information-modelpubsubscadasecure

Sources

  • OPC UA specifications (OPC Foundation)

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