One Laptop, Two Ports, Real Wires: A USB-RS232-RS485 Loopback for Modbus Testing
Overview At One-Way Automation we develop OPC UA Modbus Server, which connects Modbus devices to OPC UA clients. Much of its testing can be done with software alone, using Modbus slave simulators...
Monitoring Idako Application Health with NetData
Getting started · monitoring When you're collecting and logging critical industrial data, losing any of it usually isn't an option — which means you need to know, 24/7, that the application itself...
Monitoring Idako Application Health with Grafana
Getting started · monitoring When you're collecting and logging critical industrial data, losing any of it usually isn't an option — which means you need to know, 24/7, that the application itself...
How to Implement a Unified Namespace: Plain MQTT or OPC UA
This article was created with AI assistance. A Unified Namespace is usually built on plain MQTT. It doesn't have to be — and the alternative fixes several problems MQTT-based UNS projects run into...
Idako vs. Telegraf: Two Ways to Log OPC UA Data to InfluxDB
This article was created with AI assistance. Both can move process data from an OPC UA server into InfluxDB. They're built on very different assumptions about what else your pipeline needs to do —...
MQTT vs OPC UA myths and delusions
You can see a repetition of the same myths and delusions that have been circulating on the internet for quite a while now. Here are some of them: 1. "When you use OPC UA, it is always point-to-point...
