Open AccessThe Uniform Engineering of Distributed Control Systems Using the OPC Specification
Author(s) -
Vasile Gheorghiță Găitan,
Valeríu Popa,
Cristina Elena Turcu,
Nicoleta Cristina Gaitan,
Ioan Ungurean
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
advances in electrical and computer engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.254
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1844-7600
pISSN - 1582-7445
DOI - 10.4316/aece.2008.02013
Subject(s) - computer science , opc data access , distributed computing , control system , control (management) , software engineering , engineering , programming language , software , electrical engineering , artificial intelligence
OPC specifications have considerably contributed to the uniformization and standardization procedures for the software applications gathering process data and exchanging it in a unitary manner. However, this specification does not provide instructions or guidelines on how to achieve the interconnection with field devices. The present article proposes a standardization solution in field networks, which will enable users to gain access to a server with a communication component and several network drivers. Consequently, all engineering aspects related to implementation will be given a uniform interpretation. We will get a uniform engineering of distributed control systems