Technosoftware AG

Classic OPC Solutions

DCOM based OPC Client Development
Your application interface requires access to OPC standards like Data Access, Alarms&Events, or Historical Data Access, but the components libraries you have access to are not enough flexible and do not allow you to achieve the results you desire?

Save Your Time and Your Money! Technosoftware's Client Developer Studio is the perfect solution for adding OPC connectivity to your applications and can be used for visualization, instrumentation, data logging and more. This package gives you access to hundreds of OPC Servers supporting OPC Data Access, OPC Alarms&Events and OPC Historical Data Access. That is all in itself more than using similar products that offer access to only one of the OPC specifications.

DCOM based OPC Server Development
Your application needs to give other applications access to its data through an OPC standard like Data Access or Alarms&Events, but the components libraries you have access to are not enough flexible and do not allow you to achieve the performance you desire?

Technosoftware's Server Developer Studio offers a fast and easy access to the OPC Server technology.

 

OPC Xi Solutions

OPC Xi is the newest technology added to the OPC Foundation technology portfolio complementing OPC Unified Architecture (UA) and COM-based OPC Classic technologies.

The OPC Xi interface is the result of collaboration among several OPC vendor companies from the process industry to develop an easily integrated and secure solution for a variety of plant communications. OPC Xi's primary objective was to provide a .NET-based migration path from OPC Classic. Additionally, OPC Xi may be used as a standard .NET WCF interface for newly developed OPC servers.

Key features of OPC Xi:

  • Security – secure communications including access through firewalls
  • Simplicity - make servers and clients easy to implement, configure and deploy
  • Robustness – reliable communications with error recovery
  • Plug-and-Play – automatic discovery of servers and their communications capabilities
  • Backward compatibility - accessing OPC DA, AE and HDA servers using a single .NET interface
  • Protocol transparency – efficient client/server communications when both the client and server are on the same platform or within the same LAN and when the client is located on external networks including the Internet

Technosoftware AG is preparing the following products to be released within the near future:

OPC Xi Client Development

  • DotNova Client SDK
    Develop OPC Xi, OPC DA, OPC AE, OPC HDA and OPC CPX clients with .NET technology using the same API

OPC Xi Server Development

  • DotNova Server SDK
    Develop OPC Xi Servers with .NET technology
  • OPC Server Developer Studio .NET - Xi Edition
    Develop OPC Xi Servers with .NET technology using the same API as the OPC Server Developer Studio .NET.
 

OPC UA Solutions

The Classic OPC standard, especially the OPC DA interface, is very successful. But applications only using OPC UA can't exchange information directly with applications only using the classic OPC interfaces. Because of this it is important that OPC servers provide not only access via OPC UA but also via the (D)COM based interfaces.This can be done via

  • Proxies which allows classic OPC clients to access OPC UA servers
    No changes are required in existing products and allows easy and fast integration of classic OPC servers into OPC UA communication networks. Since the additional software layer creates performance overheads and adds additional configuration and maintenance effort.
  • Native Integration of OPC UA directly into an existing product
    It is much more efficient and less error-prone to integrate OPC UA directly into an existing product, since the OPC DA interface hides normally information that is useful to implement OPC UA.

With the UA Editions of the OPC Server Developer Studio product line Technosoftware AG provides native integration possibilities. This will make the native integration of OPC UA into a product a manageable task. The existing OPC functionality is exposed with OPC UA and allows classic OPC and OPC UA in parallel. The advantages of this is the integration of existing OPC DA features into one address space and the use of the communication features of OPC UA.

Develop now a Classic OPC Server with the OPC Server Developer Studio DLL or .NET and enhance your server later with the UA Edition. Both share the same customization DLL or assembly.

The OPC Unified Architecture's platform-independent technology allows the development of OPC UA Server and Clients not only for Windows-based PC systems but also for embedded systems as well as Linux / UNIX based systems. On these systems OPC UA can directly be integrated without the need of additional Classic OPC components.

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