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Product Overview

The OAS Kafka communication interface is both a producer and consumer, to both local and cloud clusters for Industry 4.0 data.

Features Include:

• Publish up to 100,000 values per second to an individual topic on Apache Kafka with easy to use IoT Publish feature in JSON format.
• Read topic messages, process with OAS JSON handling, and transfer to PLCs and controllers.
• Interface with SSL, SaslSSL, SaslPlaintext, and Plaintext security protocols to local and cloud servers.
• Automatically creates topics on server if they are not already defined.
• Move and translate data between Apache Kafka and any endpoint such as Modbus, Siemens S7, OPC DA, OPC UA, Allen Bradley ControlLogix, CompactLogix, GuardLogix, Micro800, MicroLogix, SLC 500, and PLC-5, MTConnect, MQTT, databases, applications, and more.

Open Data Format

Easy Access Payload:

The payload is in standard JSON format and is flexible to include the Value, Timestamp, and Quality of every value received.

Example Payload:

{
   "values": [
      {
         "id": "Ramp",
         "value": 27.0,
         "quality": true,
         "timestamp": "2022-10-11T11:08:47.000Z"
      },
      {
         "id": "Random",
         "value": 4.0,
         "quality": true,
         "timestamp": "2022-10-11T11:08:47.000Z"
      },
      {
         "id": "Sine",
         "value": 0.9781476007338057,
         "quality": true,
         "timestamp": "2022-10-11T11:08:47.000Z"
      }
   ]
}

Networking

Access tag variables from other OAS Engines using Basic Networking syntax or Live Data Cloud Networking.

Basic Networking:

Topic = \\192.168.0.1\TagName.Value

Live Data Cloud Networking from local OAS Engine:

Topic = RemoteSCADAHosting.myLiveDataCloudNode.TagName.Value

Live Data Cloud Networking through remote OAS Engine:

Topic = \\192.168.0.1\RemoteSCADAHosting.myLiveDataCloudNode.TagName.Value