Based on its future-ready and legacy-friendly design, true multi-vendor interoperability facilitation and an active technical community, OPC UA has gained broad industry acceptance and is well-suited to serve as a solid foundation for the Open Process Automation Forum to build upon to fulfill its vision.

Scalable, high-bandwidth kinetic mesh networks provide unmatched connectivity for upstream, midstream, and downstream applications. To realize peak productivity and savings, mission-critical applications need to run on a communications network that offers highly reliability, agility, and adaptable connectivity.

Wireless mesh networking offers a solution for modern wide-area IoT deployments. Evaluation teams should factor this networking topology into their technology decisions, while also considering characteristics including security, scalability, interoperability, and reliability.

With IIoT applications collecting and processing vast amounts of data, deploying processed data to the cloud securely and efficiently is a key aspect of system performance. But fortunately, new software tools are providing seamless, cost-effective ways to store operational data using an OT, IT, or hybrid cloud.