TSN-Enabled OPC UA in Field Devices

Abstract

The paradigm of “Industry 4.0” suggests that industrial automation systems will converge towards unified and standardized solutions. The concept of Industrial IoT, in turn, drives to interconnect them via deterministic networking. The alliance of these concepts promises to simplify the integration and management of complex multi-vendor automation systems. This paper investigates the emergence of the former aspect, namely - field device integration with the embedded OPC UA over TSN, using already available products.