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Welcome to Kepware's quarterly newsletter, "The Kepware Connection". We are pleased to announce the release of KEPServerEX version 5.4. This release is focused again on the DNP3.0 drivers where we have added support for the Water Industry Telemetry Standard (WITS). Thirty additional KEPServerEX drivers and plug-ins also received enhancements and updates, including expanded support for Omron, OPC DA/UA Suite, BACnet, and SNMP. Also included is the latest OPC Foundation specification, OPC Express Interface (Xi). Product News and Updates
Recently Released
 DNP3.0
Ethernet and Serial Drivers
KEPServerEX version 5.4 includes the next generation of DNP3.0 Ethernet and Serial drivers with support for the Water Industry Telemetry Standard (WITS). The WITS support will provide added security through authentication, additional data sets, specific to the water industry, plus the ability to manage distributed device assets and their attributes. -- WITS-DNP3.0 Drivers >> OPC
Express Interface
We have added OPC Express Interface (OPC Xi) support as a free client interface. OPC .NET is being released as a Beta product do to limited interoperability testing. OPC .NET's primary objective is to provide a .NET-based migration path from OPC Classic. Additionally, OPC .NET may be used as a standard .NET WCF interface for newly developed OPC servers. -- OPC Xi >> Miscellaneous Driver Enhancements
Other
enhancements include the following:
Coming Soon
KEPServerEX
V5.5 [Q1, 2011]
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Kepware is Set for Price
Increase
We are working hard to remain your #1 source for Communication Software. We greatly appreciate your business, and will always find ways to continue to provide you with the highest quality software and services. As part of that effort, we have reviewed our pricing structure and discovered a price increase is necessary in order to maintain and continue to improve the same level of quality in our products and services. The pricing increase will coincide with our version 5.5 release scheduled for the first quarter of 2011. Please keep this in mind when budgeting for 2011. Solution Chronicles
The
Age of Thermo Regulation System and Energy
Production
Discrete industry automation continues to experience solid worldwide growth as manufacturing plants and OEM machine builders continue to invest in automation to improve agility and flexibility of operations to meet market demands. The worldwide market for discrete automation systems is expected to grow at a compounded annual rate of 6.8% over the next five years. -- Read the Entire Building Automation Story >> Lower
Colorado River Authority Merges IT and Industrial
Automation
The Lower Colorado River Authorities challenge was to build a solution that would allow them to gain maximum visibility into their Data Center sites to manage the environmental issues associated with the centers - temperature, humidity, air flow - which were previously being managed manually. When they had a temperature issue, they didn't always know right away and actually had to send a person in to remedy the problem. -- Read the Entire LCRA Story >> Client Connectivity Guides
Six
New Client Connectivity Guides
Kepware has just released six new connectivity guides that walk users through connecting some of the industry's most popular HMI/SCADA/OPC Client products to our leading communications server, KEPServerEX v5. The goal is to reduce the time it takes to make the client-to-server connection, and enable users to create and import tags as quickly and easily as possible. If your client application is not listed, please check back since the section will be updated frequently with additional guides. -- Download the free Client Connectivity Guides >> OPC Road Show
The OPC Foundation and its sponsoring members will host a
one-day Training Seminars in Atlanta, GA on November 10, 2010. This event
will be held at the Hilton Atlanta Northeast Hotel in Norcross,
GA. This seminar is designed to cover the fundamentals of OPC including OPC Classic, OPC Unified Architecture (UA) and Compliance. Come visit us in Atlanta >> |