OPC announces “OPC UA open shared source” strategy
The foundation opens the doors to facilitate increased adoption of OPC Unified Architecture technology beyond industrial automation.
In an effort to facilitate widespread adoption of technology beyond industrial automation, the OPC Foundation announced its new “open shared source” strategy that allows anyone to use the OPC Architecture (OPC UA) specifications and technology without requiring membership in the foundation.
“Adoption of OPC standards in industrial automation, and specifically reaching out to other domains, requires new ways of thinking to evangelize and increase awareness of the OPC technology,” says Stefan Hoppe, OPC Foundation vice president. “OPC Unified Architecture is becoming the dominant infrastructure and information modeling architecture for the Internet of things and Industry 4.0. These initiatives require complete transparency and openness about the technology to be a core part of their infrastructure.”