OPC UA Book
The first OPC Unified Architecture Book, written by Wolfgang Mahnke, Stefan-Helmut Leitner and Matthias Damm one of the co-founders of ascolab.OPC Unified Architecture
Next Generation Standard Interface
With the new Unified Architecture (UA) the OPC Foundation follows todays and future requirements of industrial communication needs. Based on the functionality of all actual OPC Specifications (DA, A+E, HDA, Commands, Complex Data) the new defined standard is completely realized using service oriented architecture (SOA). This new aproach is platform independant, scalable and high-performant. The use in small devices of process and measurement technology with their specialized operating systems is just as well possible as the use in enterprise applications on Unix/Linux machines or Mainframes.
The rich information model can represent complex relationships of data and its semantics. Specially designed transport protocols offer highest communication speed and interoperability.
Furthermore OPC UA provides security mechanisms like authentification, authorization, encryption and data integrity based on the latest cryptographic standards i.e. PKI, AES, and SHA.
For more technical details on OPC Unified Architecture read the following sections:
