Built with one goal in mind - unmatched time-to-value - our technology allows our customers to measure success in days. Unlike Kepware, Litmus is a true modern edge platform that transforms the way companies enable Industrial IoT, Industry 4.0 and Digital Transformation. Kepware uses a Windows-based installation and configuration wizard that is legacy by design and does not offer a modern UI experience. Established in 1995, Kepware has spent the last 20+ years building a portfolio of industrial connectivity.
#Kepware software
Litmus has a flexible web-based UI, with simple everyday drop-down menus, radio buttons and other easy-to-use configuration selectors. Kepware is a software development business of PTC Inc. Kepware does not allow for centralized management and orchestration, every installation needs to be managed individually. Litmus is an enterprise-class edge platform that can be rapidly and securely deployed across hundreds of locations with centralized management for all edge devices.
#Kepware windows
Kepware is installed on a Windows server, and requires regular patch, anti-virus and other server maintenance needs.
#Kepware driver
After 20+ years, Kepware has fewer drivers, and has a per driver licensing model.ĭeveloped with security at the core, Litmus is a Linux-based system purpose-built for edge and IIoT applications.
#Kepware drivers
All our drivers are included, and we continue to develop new drivers. Our team has developed more drivers than Kepware in only a few years – over 250+ native drivers – the most in the industry. Kepware is a legacy Windows application designed as a data proxy that exposes data from industrial machines in its native format. Legal Notice.Litmus is an all-in-one modern edge connectivity platform designed to collect, normalize, store, analyze and integrate industrial data to improve operations at scale. It may contain trends, alarm summaries, pictures, or animation.Ĭopyright © 1995 - 2010, Cogent Real-Time Systems Inc. Human-Machine Interface: a graphical interface that allows a person to interact with a control system. Programmable Logic Controller: a small industrial computer that controls one or more hardware devices. There are also standards for alarms & events, historical data, batch data, and XML. OPC actually comprises several standards, the first and most important of which is OPC Data Access (OPC DA). Over a network, OPC relies on DCOM (Distributed COM), which was not designed for real-time industrial applications and is often set aside in favour of OPC tunnelling. Since OLE is based on the Windows COM (Component Object Model) standard, under the hood OPC is essentially COM. The acronym "OPC" comes from "OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) for Process Control". And it can also be used to get OPC data into Linux or QNX. In addition to enhancing OPC server and client connections, the OPC DataHub can connect any OPC server or client to other applications as well, such as Excel, a web browser, or any ODBC database. Boasting more than 30,000 users and over 100,000 installations. MatrikonOPC is the worlds largest supplier of OPC connectivity products, with a collection of over 500 interfaces such as OPC Servers, OPC Clients and OPC Historians. Use our OPC Server search engine to find the OPC Server you need. Two OPC DataHubs can mirror data across a TCP network to provide OPC tunnelling. OPC Server and OPC Servers from MatrikonOPC. Thus it can connect to several OPC servers simultaneously, for OPC aggregation and OPC bridging. It is a combination OPC server and OPC client that supports multiple connections. The OPC DataHub is uniquely designed to do all of these tasks.