The stepwise evolution of conventional production facilities into future Smart Factory or Industrial IoT paradigms entails special requirements on future industrial devices and communication networks. Due to the considerably increasing demand of interconnected devices-for internal and even external remote access-various security measures of future industrial equipment must be improved. Therefore, this paper presents an application-and feasibility study of secured communication between today's and future stationary industrial devices-based on the upcoming OPC UA protocol and partially enhanced with hardware-based security.
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