Authors:
Salvatore Cavalieri
;
Salvatore Mulè
;
Marco Giuseppe Salafia
and
Marco Stefano Scroppo
Affiliation:
University of Catania, Department of Electrical Electronic and Computer Engineering (DIEEI), Viale A. Doria 6, 95125 Catania and Italy
Keyword(s):
OPC UA, OCF, Industry 4.0, IoT, Information Model, Integration, Interoperability.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Collaboration and e-Services
;
Complex Systems Modeling and Simulation
;
Data Communication Networking
;
Data Engineering
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Health Information Systems
;
Integration/Interoperability
;
Internet of Things
;
Interoperability
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Sensor Networks
;
Simulation and Modeling
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Software and Architectures
;
Symbolic Systems
;
Telecommunications
Abstract:
The paper deals with Industry 4.0 presenting a solution to improve interoperability between industrial applications and IoT ecosystems. In particular, the proposal aims to reach interoperability between OPC UA and the emerging Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF), through a mapping between the relevant information models. A novel OPC UA information model will be presented as extension of the standard one, in order to allow the mapping of whatever information produced by an OCF device into the information model of an OPC UA server. The paper fills the existing lack of integration between OPC UA and the OCF specifications, as no other solution is present in literature at the moment.