| Title |
Integrating OPC UA Devices in EPICS |
| Authors |
- R. Lange
ITER Organization, St. Paul lez Durance, France
- R.A. Elliot, K. Vestin
ESS, Lund, Sweden
- B. Kuner
BESSY GmbH, Berlin, Germany
- C. Winkler
HZB, Berlin, Germany
- D. Zimoch
PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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| Abstract |
OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) is an open platform independent communication architecture for industrial automation developed by the OPC Foundation. Its key characteristics include a rich service-oriented architecture, enhanced security functionality and an integral information model, allowing to map complex data into an OPC UA namespace. With its increasing popularity in the industrial world, OPC UA is an excellent strategic choice for integrating a wealth of different COTS devices and controllers into an existing control system infrastructure. The security functions extend its application to larger networks and across firewalls, while the support of user-defined data structures and fully symbolic addressing ensure flexibility, separation of concerns and robustness in the user interfaces. In an international collaboration, a generic OPC UA support for the EPICS control system toolkit has been developed. It is used in operation at several facilities, integrating a variety of commercial controllers and systems. We describe design and implementation approach, discuss use cases and software quality aspects, report performance and present a roadmap of the next development steps.
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| Conference |
ICALEPCS2021 |
| Series |
International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems (18th) |
| Location |
Shanghai, China |
| Date |
14-22 October 2021 |
| Publisher |
JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland |
| Editorial Board |
Kazuro Furukawa (KEK, Tsukuba, Japan); Yingbing Yan (SARI,Shanghai, China); Yongbin Leng (SARI,Shanghai, China); Zhichu Chen (SARI,Shanghai, China); Volker RW Schaa (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany) |
| Online ISBN |
978-3-95450-221-9 |
| Online ISSN |
2226-0358 |
| Received |
10 October 2021 |
| Accepted |
04 November 2021 |
| Issue Date |
09 January 2022 |
| DOI |
doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2021-MOPV026 |
| Pages |
184-187 |
| Copyright |
 Published by JACoW Publishing under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 International license. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s), the published article's title, publisher, and DOI. |
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