The new, enhanced version of Unified Automation’s Software Development Kits (SDK) for OPC UA Server and Client will make developers life much easier. Besides being robust and compliant a Toolkit or SDK must provide required functionality in terms of UA Profiles and Conformance Units. In addition tools for modeling information and generating code or certificates make it an outstanding framework. Further more migration to the large installed base of OPC products is the key for fast adoption of OPC UA. For legacy connection and much more, high performance UaGateway takes the lead by supporting upcoming DI Specification. The technology preview is available for download and the release is scheduled for Q1/2010.

Schwabach, Germany – November 1, 2009. Unified Automation GmbH is the first vendor of SDKs for the new standard OPC Unified Architecture. The ANSI C and the C++ SDKs were the first on the marked and are the base for many OPC UA products today. Those SDKs speed up the development by providing common functionality in a flexible design surrounded by helper classes and functions. These services are well tested and offer faultless and compliant functionality. Thus the developer of the UA product can concentrate on the application that resides on a stable and robust high level code, which is handling all the OPC UA related communication tasks. Implementing the data provider interface becomes very simple, but on the information modeling side some more work is to do. The “address space”, the way a UA server shows its data to the outside world, must be designed, or better said “modeled”, including objects, types and references before implementation is started.