What does data distribution services, OPC Unified Architecture, and time-sensitive networking have in common? Find out in this Q&A. Real-Time Innovations (RTI) has been at the forefront of ...

The kind of communication necessary to support the “fourth industrial revolution” demands a protocol able to tie everything together. It’s here today. For some years now, people involved in ...

OPC UA including APL, TSN, and 5G for the field: The Field Level Communications initiative reaches a major milestone. Figure 1. FLC initiative developing extensions to the OPC UA framework for field ...

At Hannover Messe this year, I reported on developments in the Microsoft/OPC Foundation relationship to “enable virtually any Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) scenario through interoperability ...

There is a lot of talk going on in industrial automation surrounding two genuinely exciting topics: Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) and OPC UA. Why? It’s because these two technologies seemingly have ...

Peter Lutz explores how recent innovations in industrial networks are transforming the way that Ethernet is being deployed in ...

Data mustn’t sit still. It is imperative that information can be exchanged within machines, between machines and from machines to systems where it is secure in order for researchers to read their data ...

Standardization in the industrial Internet of Things is an important part of connecting machines. With standardized protocols, machines of different ages and systems can interact, collect data and ...