About the C-Bus OPC Server

The C-Bus OPC Server is a Windows Service that communicates to C-Gate. It provides a OPC interface to read and write C-Bus Lighting commands.

OPC is a broadly supported communications standard supported by many Building Management Systems and a large selection of general automation applications.

OPC also has a wide range of development toolkits avaliable for many popular languages and frameworks, including .Net, Java, Delphi & C++. (A good resource for developers is http://www.opcconnect.com ).

OPC Clients can be used to provide a User Interface to C-Bus (Like HomeGate) as well as sophisticated alarms, event management, data logging and trending.

OPC Servers can also be linked together using third party tools to bridge C-Bus to hundreds of other protocols like modbus and bacnet as well as most PLC's.

The C-Bus OPC Server is specifically designed for high availability in large commercial installations, but is equally suited for small projects where specific requirements are not met by existing C-Bus products.

The C-Bus OPC Server supports versions 1, 2.05a and 3 of the OPC Data Access specification.

Links:
- C-Bus OPC Server Download page http://www2.clipsal.com/cis/technical/downloads/c-bus_opc_server
- OPC Foundation (OPC Standards Maintainers) http://www.opcfoundation.org
- OPC Connect (Developer Tools and Information Directory) http://www.opcconnect.com
- OPC Server wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opc_server

Part Numbers:
5000SDOPC2/1 - 2 C-Bus Networks License
5000SDOPC10/1 - 10 C-Bus Networks License
5000SDOPCU/1 - Unlimited C-Bus Networks License