--- title: Enable a Secure IoT and Industry 4.0 Network Solution With Real-Time Functions and Safety Performance description: "In industrial automation, Open Platform Communications Unified Architecture (acronym: OPC UA) is often used as a communication protocol for machine-to-machine. It is becoming increasingly important today, with the ever-faster introduction of IoT and Industry 4.0 to applications such as FA robots." image: https://blog.esol.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/blog_thumbnail_Industrial_IoT-Feb-18-2025-11-28-57-0074-PM.jpg --- # [![eSOL](https://blog.esol.com/hubfs/eSOL_LP_Mar2025/asset/img/common/logo_no-50th-9.png)](https://www.esol.com/) - [eSOL Website](https://www.esol.com/) - [Blog List](https://blog.esol.com/) - [Contact us](https://lp.esol.com/inquiry/contact-us?hsLang=en) ## eSOL Blog # Enable a Secure IoT and Industry 4.0 Network Solution With Real-Time Functions and Safety Performance Nov 24, 2020, 10:00:00 AM In industrial automation, Open Platform Communications Unified Architecture (acronym: OPC UA) is often used as a communication protocol for machine-to-machine. It is becoming increasingly important today, with the ever-faster introduction of IoT and Industry 4.0 to applications such as FA robots. OPC UA is an international standard that is positioned as a standard for the communication layer in Industry 4.0. It enables interaction between different operating systems and devices from different manufacturers, and it is a reliable means for platform-independent data exchange without compromising security. OPC UA is already widespread in countries like Germany and the USA, which strongly promote the Internet of Things, as the ‘de facto’ standard. ![blog_thumbnail_Industrial_IoT](https://blog.esol.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/blog_thumbnail_Industrial_IoT-Feb-18-2025-11-28-57-0074-PM.jpg?width=627&name=blog_thumbnail_Industrial_IoT-Feb-18-2025-11-28-57-0074-PM.jpg) The OPC UA server, which controls the entire system, is implemented in control devices such as PLCs. The OPC UA server software in industrial plants traditionally runs on a conventional operating system such as Linux or Windows. However, these operating systems do not support applications with hard real-time requirements. By using the RTOS platform from eSOL, it is possible to create real-time control systems with OPC UA servers. This facilitates and accelerates the introduction of IoT practices in existing and new real-time control systems while providing the safety performance required for these applications. 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