EN 62541-3:2015

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-oktober-2015
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SIST EN 62541-3:2010
Enotna arhitektura OPC - 3. del: Model naslovnega prostora (IEC 62541-3:2015)
OPC Unified Architecture -- Part 3: Address Space Model (IEC 62541-3:2015)
OPC unified architecture - Part 3: Address Space Model (IEC 62541-3:2015)
Architecture unifiée OPC - Partie 3: Modèle de l'Espace d'Adressage (IEC 62541-
3:2015)
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 62541-3:2015
ICS:
25.040.40 Merjenje in krmiljenje Industrial process
industrijskih postopkov measurement and control
35.240.50 Uporabniške rešitve IT v IT applications in industry
industriji
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

EUROPEAN STANDARD EN 62541-3
NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
May 2015
ICS 25.040.40; 35.100 Supersedes EN 62541-3:2010
English Version
OPC unified architecture - Part 3: Address Space Model
(IEC 62541-3:2015)
Architecture unifiée OPC - Partie 3: Modèle de l'Espace OPC Unified Architecture - Teil 3: Adressraummodell
d'Adressage (IEC 62541-3:2015)
(IEC 62541-3:2015)
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Foreword
The text of document 65E/374/CDV, future edition 2 of IEC 62541-3, prepared by SC 65E "Devices
and integration in enterprise systems", of IEC/TC 65 "Industrial-process measurement, control and
automation" was submitted to the IEC-CENELEC parallel vote and approved by CENELEC as
The following dates are fixed:
• latest date by which the document has to be implemented at (dop) 2016-01-29
national level by publication of an identical national
standard or by endorsement
(dow) 2018-04-29
• latest date by which the national standards conflicting with
the document have to be withdrawn

This document supersedes EN 62541-3:2010.
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Endorsement notice
The text of the International Standard IEC 62541-3:2015 was approved by CENELEC as a European
Standard without any modification.

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Annex ZA
(normative)
Normative references to international publications
with their corresponding European publications
The following documents, in whole or in part, are normatively referenced in this document and are
indispensable for its application. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated
references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
NOTE 1 When an International Publication has been modified by common modifications, indicated by (mod),
the relevant EN/HD applies.
NOTE 2 Up-to-date information on the latest versions of the European Standards listed in this annex is
available here: www.cenelec.eu.

Publication Year Title EN/HD Year
IEC/TR 62541-1 -  OPC unified architecture - CLC/TR 62541-1 -
Part 1: Overview and concepts
IEC 62541-4 -  OPC Unified Architecture - EN 62541-4 -
Part 4: Services
IEC 62541-5 -  OPC unified architecture - EN 62541-5 -
Part 5: Information Model
IEC 62541-6 -  OPC unified architecture - EN 62541-6 -
Part 6: Mappings
IEC 62541-8 -  OPC Unified Architecture - EN 62541-8 -
Part 8: Data Access
IEC 62541-11 -  OPC unified architecture - EN 62541-11 -
Part 11: Historical Access
ISO/IEC 10918-1 -  Information technology - Digital - -
compression and coding of
continuous-tone still images:
Requirements and guidelines
ISO/IEC 15948 -  Information technology - Computer - -
graphics and image processing -
Portable Network Graphics (PNG) -
Functional specification
ISO 639 series Codes for the representation of - -
names of languages
ISO 3166 series Codes for the representation of - -
names of countries and their
subdivisions
ANSI/IEEE 754 1985 IEEE Standard for Binary Floating- - -
Point Arithmetic
Publication Year Title EN/HD Year
IETF RFC 3066 -  Tags for the Identification of - -
Languages
W3C XML Schema Part 1 -  Structures - -
W3C XML Schema Part 2 -  Datatypes - -
W3C Xpath -  XML Path Language (XPath) - -

IEC 62541-3 ®
Edition 2.0 2015-03
INTERNATIONAL
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OPC unified architecture –
Part 3: Address Space Model
Architecture unifiee OPC –
Partie 3: Modèle de l'Espace d'Adressage

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ICS 25.040.40; 35.100 ISBN 978-2-8322-2385-7

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CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 10
1 Scope . 12
2 Normative references . 12
3 Terms, definitions, abbreviations and conventions . 13
3.1 Terms and definitions . 13
3.2 Abbreviations . 14
3.3 Conventions . 14
3.3.1 Conventions for AddressSpace figures. 14
3.3.2 Conventions for defining NodeClasses . 14
4 AddressSpace concepts . 16
4.1 Overview. 16
4.2 Object Model . 16
4.3 Node Model . 16
4.3.1 General. 16
4.3.2 NodeClasses . 17
4.3.3 Attributes . 17
4.3.4 References . 17
4.4 Variables . 18
4.4.1 General. 18
4.4.2 Properties . 18
4.4.3 DataVariables . 18
4.5 TypeDefinitionNodes . 19
4.5.1 General. 19
4.5.2 Complex TypeDefinitionNodes and their InstanceDeclarations . 20
4.5.3 Subtyping . 20
4.5.4 Instantiation of complex TypeDefinitionNodes . 21
4.6 Event Model . 22
4.6.1 General. 22
4.6.2 EventTypes . 22
4.6.3 Event Categorization. 23
4.7 Methods . 23
5 Standard NodeClasses . 23
5.1 Overview. 23
5.2 Base NodeClass . 24
5.2.1 General. 24
5.2.2 NodeId . 24
5.2.3 NodeClass . 24
5.2.4 BrowseName . 24
5.2.5 DisplayName . 25
5.2.6 Description . 25
5.2.7 WriteMask. 25
5.2.8 UserWriteMask . 26
5.3 ReferenceType NodeClass . 26
5.3.1 General. 26
5.3.2 Attributes . 27
5.3.3 References . 28

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5.4 View NodeClass . 29
5.5 Objects . 31
5.5.1 Object NodeClass . 31
5.5.2 ObjectType NodeClass . 33
5.5.3 Standard ObjectType FolderType . 35
5.5.4 Client-side creation of Objects of an ObjectType . 35
5.6 Variables . 35
5.6.1 General. 35
5.6.2 Variable NodeClass . 35
5.6.3 Properties . 39
5.6.4 DataVariable . 39
5.6.5 VariableType NodeClass . 40
5.6.6 Client-side creation of Variables of an VariableType . 42
5.7 Method NodeClass . 42
5.8 DataTypes . 44
5.8.1 DataType Model.
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