Towards Integration between OPC UA and OCF

The paper deals with Industry 4.0 presenting a solution to improve interoperability between industrial applications and IoT ecosystems. In particular, the proposal aims to reach interoperability between OPC UA and the emerging Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF), through a mapping between the relevant information models. A novel OPC UA information model will be presented as extension of the standard one, in order to allow the mapping of whatever information produced by an OCF device into the information model of an OPC UA server. The paper fills the existing lack of integration between OPC UA and the OCF specifications, as no other solution is present in literature at the moment