March 2017 – Softing Industrial has announced that it will be presenting at Hannover Messe (April 24 to 28, 2017, Hall 8, Stand E20) a new OPC UA embedded toolkit for the development of OPC UA servers on embedded systems.

Softing’s OPC UA embedded toolkit is based on the ANSI C standard and features a low memory footprint as well as minimal requirements for computing power. This makes it particularly suitable not just in firmware development for sensors and field devices but also for use in control or I/O systems with limited resources. Users benefit from the utilization of predesigned and tested toolkit functions and can use these to significantly shorten the time-to-market of their development projects. The toolkit supports the OPC Foundation’s Nano Embedded Device Server Profile security features and publisher functionality from the UA v1.04 (release candidate) specification. Support is also available for developing service functionality for client/server communication.

Hans-Werner Auberg, Managing Director, Softing Industrial: “By offering support for the OPC UA pub/sub model, the new embedded toolkit considerably extends the deployment options available for OPC UA in automation. This already applies for applications without stringent real-time requirements. But the development of TSN (Time-Sensitive Networking) as an underlying standard for time-deterministic Ethernet communication is now hinting at a wider range of interesting deployment options. Softing Industrial is at the cutting edge of developments here and aims to make OPC UA also usable with pub/sub functionality in automation.”

Softing is a management holding company run in accordance with the principles and values of a German Mittelstand enterprise. Due to the increasingly international focus of its operating divisions, Softing is respected as a strategic partner by global corporations too. The Automotive, Industrial and IT Networks business segments market cutting-edge software and hardware products as well as services. In close partnership with customers, Softing uses standard products, among others, to create high-quality, customized solutions that bridge technological gaps. Softing’s engineering intelligence implements and improves the exchange of data and information, enabling customers to optimize their value chains.

The toolkit will be offered solely as a source code package. Further information is available from the website: https://industrial.softing.com/en/products/software/opc-development-toolkits.html