NOA Bus

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🚧 Work in Progress

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... central element of the NOA architecture on the edge ...

... all apps read and/or write to the NOA Bus ... speak the same language (protcol) ...

Main operations

• Discovery -- provide information about all available variables, especially: ID, data type
• Subscription -- get values for a given variable ID
• Set values -- write a given value to a variable ID
• Call a method -- may require input values; may return output values

Supports the following basic data types:

• Boolean values (TRUE and FALSE), Strings (text in UTF-8), Numbers (integer and floating point), various types for date and/or time , ... Blobs

For the protocol exist various bindings

• C/C++ -- mainly used for Codesys Communication
• Go language -- used by many apps e.g. OPC UA Communication or Data Mapper
• Python -- used for machine learning applications and ADS Communication

See the specification ...