OT-IT convergence has presented manufacturing organizations to cohesively collaborate between teams and implement IIoT strategies that can save costs, improve flexibility, and better performance while ensuring enhance security orchestration. The primary objectives behind OT-IT integration are to streamline workflows, improve productivity, safety, and security across the manufacturing organization.

But this does present challenges such as,

Device communication support for multiple OT protocols
Scalability issues
Cybersecurity challenges
Faster evolution of IT

Utthunga’s uOPC PubSub Bridge is a Cloud/Enterprise-ready solution that consolidates access to multiple OT data sources, while ensuring secure data passage across the DMZ & Firewalls during OT-IT Integration. As the name suggests, this product includes publisher and subscriber components. As compared to a conventional client-server architecture, this provides users with a highly scalable architecture using a Message Oriented Middleware that supports connecting, sending, and receiving messages between distributed applications with the help of protocols. The middleware are brokers such as MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport) and AMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol). Since a middleware broker is used, none of the applications will have to communicate with each other directly.

South-side or OT connectivity: OPC Classic, OPC DA (v1.0, v2.0, v3.0), OPC AE v1.0, OPC HDA v1.0, OPC UA v1.02 Modbus TCP
North-side or Enterprise/Cloud connectivity: MQTT. AMQP, Microsoft Azure IoT Hub (Azure Publisher, Azure Subscriber)
High data availability, redundancy, and loss-less data transmission through Store-And-Forward feature
Easy remote configuration and deployment using REST APIs
Security: Data Signing & Encryption along with user authentication & authorization. SHA-256 Secure Hash Algorithm for data privacy & security

Product Licensing:

The free trial version of the product can be download free of cost using the link provided.
The free trial version has a run-time limitation of 2-hours. After which the application stops and has to be restarted.
The product download is available as a zip file and consists of the software installer .exe and supporting documents such as datasheet & user manual.
The minimum hardware configuration required to run the software is: RAM: 2 GB, Core: 2, CPU Speed: 2.66 GHz.
Operating Systems supported are: Windows 7, 8.1, 10, 2016, 2019 (32-bit & 64-bit).

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uOPC PubSub Bridge

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