
The OPC UA (Open Platform CommunicationsUnified Architecture) technology is found in many industrial applications as it addresses many of Industry 4.0’s requirements. One of its appeals is its service-oriented architecture. Nonetheless, it requires engineering efforts during deployment and maintenance o bind or associates the correct services to a client or consumer system. We propose the integration of OPC UA with the Eclipse Arrowhead Framework (EAF) to enable automatic service discovery and binding at runtime, reducing delays, costs, and errors. The integration also enables the client system to get the service endpoints by querying the service attributes or metadata. Moreover, this forms a bridge to other industrial communication technologies such as Modbus TCP (TransmissionControl Protocol) as the framework is not limited to a specific protocol. To demonstrate the idea, an indexed line with an industrial PLC (programmable logic controller) with an OPCUA server is used to show that the desired services endpoints are revealed at runtime when querying their descriptive attributes or metadata through the EAF’s Orchestrator system. Funder: EU ECSEL Joint Undertaking (826452);ISBN för värdpublikation: 978-1-6654-9770-1
Eclipse Arrowhead Framework (EAF), Datavetenskap (datalogi), Computer Sciences, Attribute-based service orchestration, Automatic service discovery, OPC UA
Eclipse Arrowhead Framework (EAF), Datavetenskap (datalogi), Computer Sciences, Attribute-based service orchestration, Automatic service discovery, OPC UA
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