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FairCom Edge OPC UA connector

Connect FairCom Edge to OPC UA devices

Abstract

OPC UA is a client/server unified architecture that supports OPC UA devices only

OPC UA is a client/server unified architecture that supports OPC UA devices only. A typical OPC UA system includes a hardware device that acts as a server that is connected to sensors or other equipment.

The FairCom Edge OPC UA service can connect to and interact with OPC UA devices. This service is included in the FairCom jsonAction API. The FairCom Explorer Web Utility can pull, store, view, and use tags from an OPC UA simulator.

Note

A tag is a piece of named data with an associated value. For example, the tag temperature 70 includes both the named data temperature and the value 70. In JSON, a tag is a JSON property, such as "temperature": 70. In a SQL table, a tag is a data field, such as a field named temperature with a value of 70.

Section

Description

Concepts

The FairCom Edge OPC UA service can connect to and interact with OPC UA devices.

Tutorials

This section provides procedures for:

Launch the server simulator
Create a session
Capture OPC UA data as JSON records in the database
View the captured OPC UA data in the opcTable2 table
Create a transform to extract the captured data into table fields
Attach the transform to the input
View the transformed data
Forward captured data to an MQTT topic
Query captured data

API reference

The API reference outlines and defines the properties used to utilize the OPC UA service.

Startup configuration

Verify that the OPC UA service is enabled in the FairCom Edge server.