OPC UA Specification Part1 OverView and Concepts
OPC Unified Architecture, Part 1 viii Release 1.02
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OPC UA Specification Part1 OverView and Concepts
Release 1.02 1 OPC Unified Architecture, Part 1
OPC Unified Architecture Specification
Part 1: Overview and Concepts
1 Scope
Part 1 presents the concepts and overview of the OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA). Reading this document is helpful to understand the remaining Parts of this multi-part document set. Each of the other parts is briefly explained along with a suggested reading order. This Part is non-normative.
2 Reference documents
The OPC UA Specification is organized as a multi-part document. While describing the concepts, this part will refer to these parts of the specification:
Part 2: OPC UA Specification: Part 2 – Security Model
/UA/Part2/
Part 3: OPC UA Specification: Part 3 – Address Space Model
/UA/Part3/
Part 4: OPC UA Specification: Part 4 – Services
/UA/Part4/
Part 5: OPC UA Specification: Part 5 – Information Model
/UA/Part5/
Part 6: OPC UA Specification: Part 6 – Mappings
/UA/Part6/
Part 7: OPC UA Specification: Part 7 – Profiles
/UA/Part7/
Part 8: OPC UA Specification: Part 8 – Data Access
/UA/Part8/
Part 9: OPC UA Specification: Part 9 – Alarms and Conditions
/UA/Part9/
Part 10: OPC UA Specification: Part 10 – Programs
/UA/Part10/
Part 11: OPC UA Specification: Part 11 – Historical Access, Version 1.01 or later /UA/Part11/
Part 12: OPC UA Specification: Part 12 – Discovery
/UA/Part12/
Part 13: OPC UA Specification: Part 13 - Aggregates
/UA/Part13/
3 Terms, definitions, and abbreviations
For the purposes of this specification, the following definitions apply.