Industrial-IoT

Judgement

What it is

Integration

What it does

Microsoft OPC Publisher, an edge module that subscribes to OPC UA servers and publishes their data to Azure IoT Hub, Event Hubs or MQTT.

Adopt it when

Your plant data is going to Azure and your machines expose OPC UA.

Watch out

Designed around Azure IoT Edge and Azure services, so it ties you to Microsoft's cloud.

Ready for

Production-ready

Runs as

Self-hosted server

Built with

C#, .NET and Azure IoT Edge

How established

Established: started 7 years ago, latest release 2.9.18.

What the license allows

You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.

Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

Follow it down: Industrial-IoT → Runtime → LLVM project → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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