OPC UA on Security Essen 2010
Essen October 08, 2010 
Security 2010 Essen
ascolab GmbH represented the OPC Foundation and showed OPC UA technology on the Security Essen. Many visitors and exhibitors already knew the classic OPC Standards, but learning about the new possibilities and flexibility of OPC Unified Architecture made them enthusiastic. High interest was shown in platform independence, secure communication especially for fire detection systems, access control systems, card readers, doors management and also the large area of video surveillance. This trade show revealed new opportunities and an emerging marked for OPC Unified Architecture not only for management and visualization systems also for device communication. Device description and diagnostic needs to be standardized analog to industrial automation components. Vendors and integrators agreed on a benefitial work force investigating how OPC UA can help them to create cost effectice solutions for their customers.
The first OPC Unified Architecture Book, written by Wolfgang Mahnke, Stefan-Helmut Leitner and Matthias Damm one of the co-founders of ascolab.
