Developer Tools and APIs
Build Visualizations, User Interfaces, and Automation apps using Developer Tools and APIs, for .NET, web technologies, native iOS and Android mobile apps, and using a REST API for devices and applications on any platform. Developers can choose from components and libraries for creating visualization apps, headless data automations, or even automated configuration and deployment of OAS-based systems.
Product Overview
The OAS Platform includes a wide variety of Developer Tools and APIs to allow you to create applications and system integrations to execute in any environment.
.NET Developers have access to assemblies for creating data integrations, as well as visual controls for developing HMIs or User Interfaces in WinForms and WPF. There are even Portable Class Libraries (PCLs) to allow .NET developers to create native iOS and Android apps using Xamarin Forms.
Web Developers can create cross-browser, cross-platform visualizations with standards-based libraries for HTML, Javascript, and CSS. Using the REST API, any developer can integrate any application environment into the OAS Platform.
Developers can also automate the configuration of the OAS Platform itself. This allows system integrators to build applications which roll out new OAS installations, saving thousands of man-hours.
Platform Components
The core of the OAS Platform, enabling data connectivity, server-to-server networking, and more
Log data in open format to MS SQL Server, Oracle, mySQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, SQLite, MariaDB, Access, SQL Azure, and CSV
Log events to open databases, and send notifications via SMS, email, and voicemail
Read and write data to Allen Bradley, Siemens, and Modbus devices, Universal Drivers, OPC, and OPC UA, open databases, and Excel
Connect to cloud-base IoT gateways such as AWS, Azure IoT, and MQTT Brokers
Develop custom Visualizations, User Interfaces, and Automation apps for Windows, web, native iOS and Android, integrate with .NET and REST APIs
Provides the most robust, scalable, and reliable distributed networking platform for IIoT solutions
Visualization Tools
.NET Visualization
Using Visual Studio and OAS visualization tools, .NET developers can build customized HMIs and integrate with existing Windows applications. All .NET Visualization tools are compatible with Visual Studio 2005 or later.
WinForm HMI .NET
Develop Windows Forms applications in .NET using either C# or VB.NET. Includes a wide variety of visual controls.
WPF HMI .NET
Develop visually stunning WPF applications in .NET using C# or VB.NET along with XAML. Includes a wide variety of visual controls.
Trend .NET
Create real time and historical Trend visualizations, plotting multiple simultaneous data points. Interactive visual controls for analyzing and exporting data.
Alarm .NET
View and manage real time and historical Alarms. Interactive control allows users to acknowledge and comment on alarms, or filter based on any attribute.
Web Visualization
Built upon the open standards of HTML5, CSS, and Javascript, OAS Web products can be utilized in any web application environment, and can be developed using your favorite IDE or code editors. Running applications can be viewed in any desktop or mobile browser.
Web HMI
Develop web applications or integrate with existing web apps to display, modify, and control real time data in an OAS Service, all from within a desktop or mobile browser.
Web Trend
Create real time and historical Trend visualizations, plotting multiple simultaneous data points displayed in any desktop or mobile browser.
Web Alarm
View and manage real time and historical Alarms. Interactive control allows users to acknowledge and comment on alarms, or filter based on any attribute.
Web HMI Dashboard
A pre-built web application allowing users to quickly visualize data without writing any code. Includes modules for tag, alarm, and trend visualization.
Additional Tools
One of the most powerful features of the OAS Platform is automation. Using our components and APIs, the OAS Universal Data Connector configuration itself can be automated. This allows for the creation of applications that can build and manage OAS tag configurations and more. And of course, all tag data can be processed in real time through these interfaces, opening a world of data integrations to developers.
.NET Data Connector
Create custom integrations, headless data feeds, or even automate the configuration of an OAS service. Using the .NET Data Connector any C# or VB.NET application can take advantage of the OAS service.
PCL for iOS and Android
Native mobile applications for iOS and Android can be built using the OAS Portable Class Library (PCL) and Xamarin Forms. Apps can be deployed to the Apple App Store for iOS or Google Play Store for Android.
REST API
Any application code capable of executing HTTP calls can communicate with an OAS service to read and write tag data, as well as read trend and alarm data. OAS server configurations can also be managed through the API.
Universal Driver Interface
Create your own communication drivers using C# or VB.NET and define custom interface and tag properties. This SDK is easy to use and deploy and free of charge to develop unlimited numbers of drivers.