OPC 10000-211: Global Positioning
Released 1.0.0
2025-10-09
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This document defines nodes in the following nodesets:
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms, abbreviated terms and conventions
3.1 Overview
3.2 OPC UA for Global Positioning terms
3.2.1 Global Position
3.2.2 Global Location
3.2.3 Zone
3.2.4 SourceId
3.2.5 Local Coordinate System
3.3 Abbreviated terms
3.4 Conventions used in this document
3.4.1 Conventions for Node descriptions
3.4.1.1 Node definitions
3.4.1.2 Additional References
3.4.1.3 Additional sub-components
3.4.1.4 Additional Attribute values
3.4.2 NodeIds and BrowseNames
3.4.2.1 NodeIds
3.4.2.2 BrowseNames
3.4.3 Common Attributes
3.4.3.1 General
3.4.3.2 Objects
3.4.3.3 Variables
3.4.3.4 VariableTypes
3.4.3.5 Methods
3.4.4 Structures
4 General information to Global Positioning and OPC UA
4.1 Introduction to Global Positioning
4.2 Introduction to OPC Unified Architecture
4.2.1 What is OPC UA?
4.2.2 Basics of OPC UA
4.2.3 Information modelling in OPC UA
4.2.3.1 Concepts
4.2.3.2 Namespaces
4.2.3.3 Companion Specifications
5 Use cases
5.1 Global Asset Tracking
5.2 Robotic Navigation and Relative Spatial Localization
5.3 Remote Monitoring and Field Operations
6 Global Positioning Information Model overview
6.1 Overview
6.2 Global Position
6.3 Global Location
6.4 Zones
6.5 Connecting trackable Assets to global position and location information
7 OPC UA ObjectTypes
7.1 ZoneType definition
7.1.1 Overview
7.1.2 ObjectType definition
8 OPC UA VariableTypes
8.1 GlobalPositionType
8.2 GlobalLocationType
9 OPC UA DataTypes
9.1 3DGeographicCoordinateDataType
9.2 GlobalPositionDataType
9.3 GlobalLocationDataType
9.4 GroundControlPointDataType
10 Instances
10.1 GlobalLocations
11 Profiles and Conformance Units
12 Namespaces
12.1 Namespace Metadata
12.2 Handling of OPC UA Namespaces
Annex A (normative) Global Positioning Namespace and mappings
A.1 NodeSet and supplementary files for Global Positioning Information Model
A.2 Capability Identifier