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OPC UA SDK
Hongke Electronics
High Performance
Strong Scalability
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Background
Guangzhou Liguang Technology Co., Ltd. was established in 1999, providing chips and intelligent IoT solutions for industrial and automotive electronic users, as well as an intelligent IoT development platform designed for the pain points of R&D personnel.
In addition, its ZWS Cloud Platform supports quick access for devices with various protocols, supports data transparent forwarding and a complete secondary development package, supports full private deployment, and provides a feature-rich backend MIS system for unified device management, offering one-stop solutions for customers’ core needs.
The full name of the ZWS Cloud Platform is: ZLG Web Service Cloud Computing Service Platform, which is a standard general IoT cloud platform service system that supports the access management of devices with various communication protocols, including ZigBee, LoRaWAN, OPC UA, CAN, Modbus, etc., featuring remote monitoring and management of devices, data parsing, data analysis, alarm triggering, data pushing, and more. Additionally, it includes PaaS IoT cloud and automotive electronics CAN smart cloud, enabling artificial intelligence big data processing in a “device + cloud + terminal” model.
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Challenges
As the need to support an increasing variety of devices accessing the ZWS Cloud Platform grows, semantic interoperability becomes particularly important, necessitating a data specification to normalize all device data into a single format for easy reading and writing and improving the efficiency of the cloud platform.
Moreover, due to the diverse and complex sources of accessing devices, security becomes paramount, requiring assurance that data is safe and reliable throughout the entire system from devices to local and then to the cloud.
To address these needs, ZWS needs to develop an OPC UA interface to facilitate more efficient access for devices that support the OPC UA protocol to this cloud platform.
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Solution
To meet the demand for integrating OPC UA functionality into the ZWS cloud platform, Liguang Technology chose Hongke’s MatrikonFLEX OPC UA SDK, which is specifically designed for developers, system integrators, and device and control manufacturers.
It provides all the features necessary to quickly enable devices and applications with high-performance OPC UA functionality, which is a crucial part of achieving smarter operations and key IIoT solutions.
This SDK is built on the OPC UA “integrated client” design, abstracting the low-level OPC UA implementation details, allowing software developers to quickly and easily create scalable, user-friendly, OPC UA-supported applications.
Many vendors offer OPC UA SDKs on the market, but unlike other OPC UA SDKs that require developers to use separate OPC UA toolkits when implementing products on different platforms, Hongke’s MatrikonFLEX SDK only requires developers to use this one to use, maintain, and update all products, ultimately greatly reducing the time required to bring products to market.
This OPC UA SDK employs a pool-based reliable memory management mechanism, capable of running on almost any system, whether it is a resource-constrained embedded platform (RTOS, no operating system, embedded Linux, etc.) orPC and server-based platforms (Windows, Linux), and mobile device platforms (Android, iOS, etc.).This also allows Liguang Technology to confidently focus its development efforts and resources on enhancing the core competitiveness of ZWS, ensuring that their ZWS cloud platform can provide industry-leading interoperability, security, and reliable data connections.
The ZWS cloud platform has now successfully supported OPC UA, allowing users to view defined nodes through the developed OPC UA client before collecting business data, and then creating OPC UA device type data points corresponding to node attributes in the ZWS cloud. By entering the URI of the OPC UA server when adding an OPC UA device, the OPC UA device can successfully connect to the ZWS cloud platform, making the entire process simple and efficient.
Hongke–Industrial IoT
Hongke is a high-tech company with over 3 years of experience in the industrial IoT IIoT industry. Hongke collaborates with top global companies including EXOR, Eurotech, Unitronics, Matrikon, KUNBUS, etc., providing advanced high-end Industry 4.0 industrial touch screens, high-end edge computers, IoT development frameworks, PLC and HMI integrated machines, OPC UA, industrial-grade Raspberry Pi, SCADA and other solutions. All members of the IoT division have received professional training and certification, with an average of 3+ years of technical experience, consistently earning excellent reputations from customers. We actively participate in industry associations, making significant contributions to the promotion of advanced technology. To date, Hongke has provided various solutions from hardware to software for numerous users in the industry and has participated in and assisted with many OEM device R&D and migration projects, as well as smart factory and Industry 4.0 upgrade projects for end users.
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