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Industrial automation is facing a paradigm shift as machines, robots, and mobile systems are learning to “understand” space. With the new OPC UA Companion Specification for Identification and Locating, AIM-D e.V., PROFIBUS & PROFINET International (PI), omlox, and the OPC Foundation are looking to establish the foundation for a common language of “spatial intelligence” for use with physical AI.
Physical AI, AI that actively perceives physical space and acts contextually, requires a unified understanding of positions, movements, and identities in space. The new OPC Companion Specification looks to harmonize the spatial data model for absolute positions within the OPC Foundation and allows for unified global positioning of assets in the physical and digital world. This, in turn, is designed to enable seamless integration of spatial data into industrial IT and OT systems—a prerequisite for autonomous mobile robots, intelligent assistance systems, and self-organizing production environments.
The collaboration between AIM-D (the industry association for automatic data collection, identification/AutoID, and mobile IT systems), omlox/PI, and the OPC Foundation brings together the disciplines of identification, locating, and communication in a common spatial context to create a foundation to equip robots, vehicles, and machines with a shared spatial understanding. The new specification is now freely available on the OPC Foundation’s website.
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