What are the key features of OPC UA?
OPC UA Features:
- Cross-Platform: OPC UA uses standard TCP/IP to communicate, enabling OPC UA clients to operate on Linux, Windows, Mac, iOS and Android operating systems.
- High Security: OPC UA uses certificates to authenticate clients and encryption to protect the connection. This ensures that your data is protected and maintains confidentiality and integrity.
- High Reliability: OPC UA uses configurable timeout settings, error checking, and allows for automatic recovery from communication failures.
- Tag Structure: OPC UA transmits all available tags on connection which can be clearly displayed and browsed, freeing you from memorizing addresses.
- Subscribe Mechanism: OPC UA clients can subscribe to tag addresses to receive real-time updates from the cMT OPC UA server when data on the factory machine changes.
Current cMT3000 series, cMT-G01/cMT-G02, and cMT-SVRX/cMT-FHDX units have built-in OPC UA Client and Server functionality, no additional license needed.
cMT2000 series has only OPC UA Client functionality, no Server functionality so no license needed.
cMT-SVR-200/cMT-SVR-202 are the only products currently sold that require the purchase of an additional OPC UA license as they do not have the functionality built in.