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OPC Specifications

Since the first specification, in aug. 1996, the OPC Foundation released a lot of specifications to solve a great amount of communication's problems. All these specification can be accessed in their specification's download page.

The most important OPC Specifications are:

• OPC Overview - General description of all OPC Specifications
  
  
• OPC Common Definitions and Interfaces - Basic functionality of all specifications
  
  
• OPC Data Access Specification - Specifications of data read/write
  
  
• OPC Alarms and Events Specification - Events monitoring interface specifications
  
  
• OPC Historical Data Access Specification - History data access interface specification
  
  
• OPC Batch Specification - Specification of Batch process data access interface
  
  
• OPC Security Specification - Security policy interface specifications
  
  
• OPC Data eXchange(DX) Specification - Define the data exchange interface specification
  
  
• OPC and XML Specification - Specification of OPC and XML integration