Silver OPC UA Toolkit

Modern open-source OPC UA toolkit for industrial monitoring, realtime visualization, and future industrial AI workflows.

Built for industrial engineers, automation developers, and Industry 4.0 environments.

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Overview

Silver OPC UA Toolkit is a modern industrial software platform focused on creating lightweight, developer-friendly, and cross-platform industrial tools around OPC UA.

The project aims to modernize industrial monitoring workflows with clean UI, realtime data handling, scalable OPC UA navigation, and future AI-assisted industrial tooling.

Designed for:

• Industrial engineers
• Automation developers
• PLC programmers
• System integrators
• IIoT developers
• Smart factory environments

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Why Silver OPC UA Toolkit?

Most industrial software tools are:

• Outdated
• Windows-only
• Difficult to use
• Built around legacy UX patterns
• Poor at realtime workflows

Silver OPC UA Toolkit aims to provide a modern alternative with:

• Modern web-based UI
• Realtime industrial workflows
• Cross-platform architecture
• Lightweight deployment
• Open-source flexibility
• Future-ready AI integration

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Current Features

Implemented

• OPC UA Connection Manager
• Scalable Tag Browser
• Searchable OPC UA Navigation
• Watchlist-based monitoring workflow (persistent via localStorage)
• Realtime OPC UA Monitoring
• WebSocket-based realtime updates
• Realtime Charts
• Configurable monitoring windows
• Configurable update intervals
• Chart pause / resume
• Boolean tag visualization (ON/OFF)
• CSV data export with time-window selection
• Alarm and threshold visualization (Warning / Critical, High / Low)
• Threshold reference lines on trend charts
• System Status panel with live runtime indicators
• Realistic 5-mode industrial simulator (normal / alarm / step / frozen / recovering)
• Structured logging
• Dockerized deployment
• Modern sidebar navigation with industrial SaaS aesthetic

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Architecture Overview

OPC UA Server
      ↓
asyncua Client Layer
      ↓
FastAPI Backend
      ↓
REST API + WebSockets
      ↓
React Frontend

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Tech Stack

Backend

• Python 3.12
• FastAPI
• asyncua
• SQLAlchemy (async)
• WebSockets
• Pydantic
• uv

Frontend

• React 19
• TypeScript
• Tailwind CSS
• shadcn/ui
• Recharts
• Vite

Infrastructure

• Docker
• docker-compose
• nginx

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Quick Start

Requirements

• Python 3.12+
• Node.js 20+
• uv (pip install uv)
• Docker (optional)

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Clone Repository

git clone https://github.com/silverlabs-dev/Silver-OPCUA-Toolkit.git
cd Silver-OPCUA-Toolkit

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Development Setup

Terminal 1 — OPC UA Simulator

cd backend
uv run python simulator/server.py

Simulator endpoint:

opc.tcp://localhost:4840

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Terminal 2 — Backend

cd backend
uv sync
uv run python run.py

Backend API docs:

http://localhost:8000/docs

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Terminal 3 — Frontend

cd frontend
npm install
npm run dev

Frontend development server:

http://localhost:5173

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Docker Quick Start

Run the full stack with:

docker compose up --build

Services:

Service	URL
Frontend	http://localhost:8080
Backend API	http://localhost:8000/docs
OPC UA Simulator	opc.tcp://localhost:4840

Inside Docker containers, use:

opc.tcp://simulator:4840

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Screenshots

Connections Management

Modern OPC UA connection management with realtime status tracking, retry monitoring, and connection lifecycle visibility.

Tag Browser

Scalable industrial tag browser with search, hierarchical OPC UA navigation, and watchlist workflow.

Live Monitoring

Realtime industrial monitoring dashboard with watchlists, configurable update rates, and live trend visualization.

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Roadmap

Near-Term

• ✅ Persistent watchlists
• ✅ CSV export
• ✅ Alarm visualization
• ✅ System Status panel
• ✅ Improved industrial UX workflows
• OPC UA security foundations (v0.4.0-alpha)
• Multi-connection monitoring (v0.5.0-beta)

Mid-Term

• Historical data logging
• MQTT integration
• Alarm & event workflows
• Multi-device support
• OPC UA write support

Long-Term

• AI-assisted diagnostics
• Predictive maintenance
• Industrial AI copilot
• Edge AI workflows
• Cloud monitoring platform

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Project Status

Current status: v0.3.0-alpha

The project is under active development and currently focused on building a modern industrial monitoring platform around OPC UA and future industrial AI workflows.

Current alpha focus areas:

• Realtime industrial monitoring
• Modern industrial UX
• Scalable OPC UA workflows
• Alarm and threshold visualization
• Lightweight deployment
• Open-source industrial tooling

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Contributing

Contributions, feedback, architecture discussions, and industrial workflow ideas are welcome.

Contribution guidelines and issue templates will be added in upcoming releases.

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License

Licensed under the Apache License 2.0.