Exploring the New Features of OPC Systems NET

Exploring the New Features of OPC Systems. NET UDP Broadcast/Receive OPC Excel. NET Renee Sikes Applications Engineer Email: rsikes@softwaretoolbox. com Phone: +1 (704) 849 2773

Agenda Introduce OPC Systems. NET Introduce new features We’ll get here quickly! UDP Broadcast and Receive OPC Excel. NET Live Demo – Connecting to Excel Summary Questions & Answers

OPC Systems Components Windows Applications Controls. NET, Alarm. NET, Trend. NET, Gauge. NET Web Applications Web. Controls. NET, Web. Alarm. NET, Web. Trend. NET

OPC Systems Components WPF Applications Mobile Applications WPF. NET Mobile. NET Data Management Database. NET, Report. NET, Recipe. NET, Client. NET, Route. NET, Excel. NET

OPC Systems. NET Benefits OPC Systems. NET provides these benefits: Central “always-on” tag repository = faster performance Tag data can come from OPC DA and/or Databases, including Excel Multi-Threaded for faster, and more Reliable operations Buffers data, eliminating data-loss for short outages as well as maximizing the performance of your web-link Modular, components available separately or as a suite Affordable, not as expensive as you might think OPC Self-Certified, for assurance in quality NO MORE DCOM HEADACHES

How it works… Tag repository stores Data, and some history Data can come from OPC Servers . Net Remoting OPC Connection is always ON eliminating connectivity overhead OPC Systems. NET Service Applications see the data when it opens (Tag Repository) Data Source OPC Server . Net Remoting transfers the data WITHOUT DCOM PLC DCS Other

How it works… Application requests an “update” of the items/tags it needs. OPC Systems. NET Server responds with values that have changed: If value remains same, empty data-set returned If 1 -value changed, that value is returned If the value changed multiple times, all updates sent . Net Remoting OPC Systems. NET Service (Tag Repository) Data Source OPC Server PLC DCS Other

Tolerance OPC Systems. NET Service (Tag Repository) Queue Local Network Internet Client Application Tag Repository individually “caches” data to each client If a client goes temporarily offline, it will “catch-up” on the next update. Applies to ALL OPC Systems. NET Clients (data logging, alarms, Win. Forms, Web. Forms etc. )

UDP Broadcast and Receive Broadcast all OPC Systems tag values to specified UDP clients Receive UDP broadcast messages of tag values from remote OPC Systems services Built-in security Value transfer is one-way Easy configuration

OPC Excel. NET Read and Write data in Excel Unlimited remote Excel connections to OPC Systems service without Net. DDE Uses RTD function to communicate Combine with other OPC Systems features to get data from Excel to Visual Studio applications, web applications, data bases, reports, etc.

OPC Excel. NET Free configuration utility to help you properly create formulas to read/write tags, or read timestamps Confirmation of data exchange for added reliability Connect to Excel 2003, 2007, and 2010

Live Demo UDP Broadcast/Receive Set up UDP Broadcast on VPC Set up UDP receive on host Demonstrate Excel worksheet Read a tag with its timestamp Write tags View Security Settings

Affordable Tag Counts 1 Feature 3 Features 5 Features All 15 Features 100 Tags $195 $495 $735 $995 250 Tags $295 $745 $1, 115 $1, 495 500 Tags $395 $995 $1, 495 $1, 995 1, 000 Tags $495 $1, 245 $1, 865 $2, 995 2, 500 Tags $795 $1, 995 $2, 995 $4, 995 *Support and Maintenance contracts are available for 20% of the total license cost Contact us for pricing for higher tag counts No OPC Server Connection or Client Connection Counts No Text File or Database Connection Counts Code-less development tools are Runtime-free Fully documented, lots of examples Smart. Client Technology ready

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