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ANSI C Based OPC UA Server SDK

The OPC UA Stack implements the serialization, security and transport of messages exchanged between different UA Applications. The stack does not contain any application layer functionality. The OPC Foundation is providing different implementations of the stack. The ANSI C version has a platform layer that contains the platform specific code separated from the platform independent functionality.

The SDK/Toolkit simplifies the UA stack APIs, implements common UA functionality needed in most or all UA applications, provides base functionality and helper functions, implements the security handling and provides samples for common use cases.

ANSI C SDK Provider Architecture

The application provides or consumes information via OPC UA. This layer contains the application specific logic and a mapping to OPC UA using the OPC SDKs.

The ANSI C OPC UA Server SDK provides an ANSI C library used to develop OPC UA Servers providing a standard interface to vendor specific systems. The OPC UA Server is normally used to describe the available information from a vendor system and to provide access to the data for external systems in a standard way.

The ANSI C OPC UA SDK is a compact OPC UA SDK designed for embedded devices which provides the basic infrastructure to create an OPC UA Server.

It supports the following OPC UA services:

  • FindServer, GetEndpoints
  • CreateSession, ActivateSession, CloseSession
  • Browse, BrowseNext
  • Read
  • Write
  • CreateSubscription, ModifySubscription, DeleteSusbcription
  • CreateMonitoredItems, ModifyMonitoredItems, DeleteMonitoredItems
  • Publish
  • SetMonitoringMode
  • SetPublishingMode

Features—Supported UA Profiles

The Basic Edition supports the following OPC UA Profiles:

  • Embedded UA Server
  • Standard UA Server

The  Professional Edition supports the following OPC UA Profiles:

  • Standard UA Server
  • DataAccess Server Facet
  • ComplexType Server Facet
  • Basic Event Subscription Server Facet
  • Address Space Notifier Server Facet
  • Method Server Facet
  • A&C Simple Server Facet
  • A&C Address Space Instance Server Facet
  • A&C Enable Server Facet
  • A&C Alarm Server Facet
  • A&C Acknowledgeable Alarm Server Facet
  • A&C Exclusive Alarming Server Facet
  • A&C Non-Exclusive Alarming Server Facet

Additional supported features, for which no profiles are defined by the OPC Foundation yet:

  • Historical Access

Product Variants—License Schema

The ANSI C based OPC UA Server SDK is available in Source Code only. However a Binary Evaluation Version can be found in the download area of this website. The Source Code Developer license is available either for Windows or Linux platform.

When your team buys a “Source Code Developer License”, you’ll receive the following:

  • The right for one, named and registered developer per license to use and develop commercial applications with the UA SDK. All developers in your company using the SDK will need individual licenses.
  • Maintenance: One year of upgrades to all new releases of the SDK.
  • Initial Support: Email-based Standard Support Incidents.

Please contact our sales department for a PDF version of the complete License Agreement.