Utgard is a vendor-independent

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OPC client

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that supports the OPC

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and can be used independently from other Eclipse SCADA projects. Utgard is used in Eclipse SCADA together with Atlantis to communicate with systems of other vendors over the OPC DA 2.0 interface. The project is

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, written in pure Java and is distributed under the

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. Utgard eliminates the need for additional DLLs/

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libraries. Currently, an OPC server is required to communicate with Utgard.

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