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Free Stuff - OPC UA

This page draws together all the information we have on freely available OPC UA software.

Free UA Servers

Free UA Clients

Free UA Utilities

The tools which appear on this page are all supplied free of charge, and are either pre-built or supplied as 'ready to build' source code, or both. Some are evaluation versions, and are identified as such. They may all be downloaded from the Web.

Our UA SDKs and Toolkits page has more information on approaches to UA development.

Free UA Servers

Product	Supplier	Notes
OPC UA Server (Universal Connectivity Server)	MatrikonOPC	Full OPC UA support with integrated Address Space. Full integration of Classic OPC specifications: OPC DA, HDA, A&E. The Universal Connectivity Server (UCS) is a single OPC Server that provides connectivity to multiple devices, protocols and APIs.
UA Demo Server	Advosol	Experimental Server based on the Beta version of the OPC Foundation OPC UA SDK and intended to give an opportunity to experiment with OPC UA at an early stage.
Ignition	Inductive Automation	Ignition by Inductive Automation is a cross-platform industrial application server, written in 100% Java, that includes a free OPC-UA server (email address required).
OPC UA Demo Server for Windows	Unified Automation	OPC UA DemoServer - Freeware for Windows. OPC UA enabled KEPServer for Unified Automation - 1 hour Demo Version.
UaGateway Wrapper/Proxy for Windows - Technical Preview	Unified Automation	Utility that translates classic OPC DA to OPC UA and vice versa.

Free UA Clients

Product	Supplier	Notes
Ignition Vision Panel Edition	Inductive Automation	Free edition of the Ignition Vision Module. It allows users to run a single local status-and-control only client.
UaExpert	Unified Automation	OPC UA Expert - Freeware for Linux (x86) or Windows.

Free UA Utilities

Product	Supplier	Notes
UA Wrapper for COM OPC Servers	MatrikonOPC	MatrikonOPC developed a UA Wrapper, built with the latest SDK, to allow users to connect to COM/DCOM based “OPC Classic” servers using the new OPC UA specification.
UA Model Designer	CommServer	A powerful tool for creating, displaying and editing OPC UA models that are compatible with the OPC Unified Architecture address space concept.
UaModeler - Technical Preview	Unified Automation	Graphical UA Modeling Tool, capable of generating source code for OPC UA Servers.

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