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...

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About OPC UA timestamps

As software engineers and manufacturing industry professionals, it is important to understand the use of timestamps. This article explains the basics of what timestamps are, the features it boasts,...

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OVL as Kafka Source Connector

Logging industrial data to Kafka made easier! Our ogamma Visual Logger for OPC now can be deployed as Apache Kafka Source Connector! Works well with Cofluent and Redpanda Connect implementations. ...

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Free software/tools

Industrial Data Collector is an integration tool that harvests industrial control data from OPC UA servers, and stores & forwards it to databases or MQTT brokers. The former name is ogamma...

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MQTT vs OPC UA

Introduction.   It is very common to read about MQTT protocol that it is very lightweight in terms of network traffic: MQTT is an OASIS standard messaging protocol for the Internet of Things...

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Why our products are not open source?

Every once a while we receive inquiry asking about our products: is source code for it available as open source. It is not, and here is why.   If you look at open-source projects, you can see...

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