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Advanced Simulator

The Advanced Simulator driver for Kepware Server supplies reliable data access to any HMI, SCADA, Historian, or Enterprise application supporting OPC, DDE, FastDDE, and SuiteLink.

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  • Enterprise Connectivity

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  • Project Connectivity

    Advanced Manufacturing Suite

    Kepware’s Advanced Manufacturing Suite bundles every driver with tag linking and database logging unlocked data from any device for automation projects.

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  • Device Connectivity

    Manufacturing Suite

    The Kepware Manufacturing Suite packages 100 device drivers with OPC DA and OPC UA for integrating common manufacturing devices and systems.

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Details

Overview

Advanced Simulator Product Overview

The Advanced Simulator driver was designed to plug into our industrial-based communications server products. These products supply reliable data access to any HMI, SCADA, Historian, or Enterprise application supporting OPC, DDE, FastDDE, and SuiteLink. This driver provides single-point access to multiple ODBC data sources via ODBC. The driver simulates live data by traversing through all the records in a selected table at a rate set by the user.

Performance

  • Supports the option to automatically start at the first record when all the records in the table have been read or stop once the last record has been reached
  • Supports the internal tag (MoveTo) so the user can move to any specified record at any time
  • Multiple connection sessions to multiple ODBC data sources
  • OPC DA
  • Tags updated regularly from the database
  • CSV import and export for manipulating large numbers of tags easily
  • New tags can be added to your application at any time, even at runtime
  • Dynamic table access method
  • Simple and self-evident user interface will allow users to get their data immediately

Protocols

  • ODBC API

Supported Devices

  • Microsoft Access
  • Microsoft SQL
  • MySql
  • Oracle
  • Sybase

Available Languages

  • English

Application Support

  • DDE Format CF_Text and AdvancedDDE
  • NIO Interface for iFIX
  • OPC .NET Service (OPC .NET) Version 1.00
  • OPC Alarms and Events (OPC AE) Version 1.10
  • OPC Data Access (OPC DA) Versions 1.0a, 2.0, 2.05a, and 3.0
  • OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) Clients
  • SuiteLink and FastDDE for Wonderware

Documents

Release Notes

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Additional Tech Info

The Advanced Simulator driver is capable of communicating with any application that supports the standard "ODBC" data source format. Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) is required. MDAC consists of several core components that provide various database technologies, including ODBC and its drivers.

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