Evaluation of OPC-UA Technology in a Car-2x Communication towards an Industry 4.0 Driven Automotive Domain

Kurzfassung

In the area of Car 2X communication, ensuring a good quality secure communication always plays a vital role. One cannot ignore the dangers of losing data or getting data stolen from the public domain. This, especially when it involves the safety of the general public. Loss of data between two information exchange systems may lead to unwanted loss, additional overhead of fixing the devices among many others. In today’s world there are a lot of car companies that define information exchange models based on their language of programing and also based on the underlying architecture the products of the company are built in. therefore there is always a need to ensure a good communication while ensuring security. Current state-of-the-art techniques involved in the transformation of signals and information between a car and an infrastructure or a machine to machine have the underlying problem of security. The application platform for Intelligent Mobility can be considered as the most advanced form of communication architectures used on the roads today. However, there will always come another better technology as time goes by. The thesis 'Evaluation of OPC-UA Technology in Car2X Communication towards an Industry 4.0 Driven Automotive Domain' has been done at DLR, Braunschweig along with the Faculty of Science in Chemnitz University of Technology. The purpose of this thesis is to bring about a technology into the automotive domain, which can be made into a standard for security and robustness. The layered chapters of this thesis researches into the possibilities of an alternate to the current standards. The application is implemented by the use of a server-client model for information exchange. The evaluation is done based on the results and the huge potential OPC UA carries in the automation industry.