
A plain map of device, gateway and platform
An editorial sketch of three layers for industrial data. It is not a customer deployment, and OPC UA is one information model, not the whole map.
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These guides separate information models from transports. OPC UA, PackML and MQTT are not treated as one protocol.
Guides in this section:A plain map of device, gateway and platform; How packaging data moves through OPC UA.

An editorial sketch of three layers for industrial data. It is not a customer deployment, and OPC UA is one information model, not the whole map.

OPC UA is an information model, PackML is a machine state model, and a companion spec maps one into the other. They are not the same layer.