With the introduction of the platform-independent OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA), OPC technology has started to conquer new application areas, such as embedded systems or the IT world. Recently, ...

A new X20 I/O system bus controller from B&R Industrial Automation makes it possible to implement OPC UA communication from sensors to the ERP layer without using any interfaces, or a connected PLC.

It has probably happened to all of us at one time or another: You leave the house or office and after a while and several miles later, it suddenly occurs to you that you have left a window open and ...

Exchanging data between Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) devices and the cloud presents a bewildering array of options. Cloud providers, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google IO, and many ...

Introduced in the late 1990s, OPC quickly became a global standard for communications to Microsoft Windows computers. Tens of thousands of OPC servers were deployed in every corner of the automation ...