OPC Foundation announces OPC UA open source availability
June 2016
News
The open source repository of OPC UA is now available on the open source GitHub website at http://github.com/opcfoundation. Open source is a very important strategy to eliminate roadblocks to adoption of the technology. By open sourcing the OPC UA technology the OPC Foundation is now enabling easy access to the technology by academia and research organisations, as well as many suppliers and end-users that would like to assess the OPC UA technology as part of early adopter and feasibility analysis.
There are a number of OPC open source initiatives already available from suppliers, research institutes and academia for OPC UA. The open source repository from the OPC Foundation is intended to supplement these by providing additional value. The OPC Foundation has committed resources to moderate/maintain and extend the technology to keep pace with technology changes in the industry as well as the extensions to the OPC UA architecture and corresponding companion specification.
The OPC Foundation has always followed the model of validating the OPC specifications by requiring reference implementations prior to releasing any OPC specifications. This strategy guarantees that the OPC specifications are not just academic, as the reference implementation validates that the technology solves real-world problems and can be adopted into real products. The availability of the OPC UA technology as open-source allows OPC to be leveraged in many additional markets providing information integration and interoperability from the embedded world to the cloud.
“The OPC Foundation commitment to the end-users and suppliers is to increase awareness of the OPC technology, and the vision is to be the solution for the Internet of everything, inclusive of industrie 4.0, IIoT, IoT, and M2M. The industry has recognised the importance of open source as a strategy for international acceptance and evangelism of technology, and many organisations and industries active in IoT will not even look at a technology unless it’s available as open-source,” says Thomas J. Burke, OPC Foundation president and executive director.
For more information contact OPC Foundation (Africa), +27 (0)11 548 9978, [email protected], www.opcfoundation.co.za
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