EN IEC 62541-3:2020

OPC Unified Architecture - Part 3: Address Space Model

Publication date:   Dec 21, 2020

General information

60.60 Standard published   Sep 4, 2020

CENELEC

CLC/TC 65X Industrial-process measurement, control and automation

European Norm

25.040.40   Industrial process measurement and control | 35.100.05   Multilayer applications

Buying

  Published

PDF - €126.82

  English  



Buy

Scope

<!-- NEW! -->IEC 62541-3:2020 is available as <a href="https://webstore.iec.ch/publication/67301">IEC 62541-3:2020 RLV</a> which contains the International Standard and its Redline version, showing all changes of the technical content compared to the previous edition.</br></br><div>IEC 62541-3:2020 defines the OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) AddressSpace and its Objects. This document is the OPC UA meta model on which OPC UA information models are based. This third edition cancels and replaces the second edition published in 2015. This edition includes the following significant technical changes with respect to the previous edition:

a) Added new improved approach for exposing structure definitions. An Attribute on the DataType Node now simply contains a binary description.

b) Added new flags for Variables to indicate atomicity when reading or writing.

c) Added Roles and Permissions to allow configuration of a role-based authorization.

d) Added new data types: “Union”, “Decimal”, “OptionSet”, “DateString”, “TimeString”, “DurationString”, NormalizedString”, “DecimalString”, and “AudioDataType”.

e) Added definition on how to use the ModellingRules OptionalPlaceHolder and MandatoryPlaceHolder for Methods.

f) Added optional Properties “MaxCharacters” and “MaxByteStringLength” to Variable Nodes.</div>

Life cycle

PREVIOUSLY

WITHDRAWN
EN 62541-3:2015

NOW

PUBLISHED
EN IEC 62541-3:2020
60.60 Standard published
Sep 4, 2020

REVISED BY

IN_DEVELOPMENT
prEN IEC 62541-3:2024