# Beckhoff ADS Driver **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [January 4, 2022, 8:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/beckhoff-ads-driver/54652 "2022-01-04T20:11:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![gnguyen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/41988e/32.png) [@gnguyen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/gnguyen)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 8:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/beckhoff-ads-driver/54652/41 "2025-07-28T20:20:06Z")
awesome! we have a customer who needs this for a really fast data acquisition system ---
**Author:** ![larsharald\_b](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@larsharald\_b](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/larsharald_b)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2025, 7:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/beckhoff-ads-driver/54652/42 "2025-09-12T19:03:53Z")
Hi, in Norway Ignition is really starting to gain momentum, a lot of companies has adopted to the software. Same applies for Beckhoff, especially in the aquaculture industry. A ignition ADS driver would really help to utilize these two systems. ---
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2025, 7:06pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/beckhoff-ads-driver/54652/43 "2025-09-12T19:06:10Z")
You already can, because Beckhoff has either onboard OPC UA server or software OPC UA server for their PLCs. Is there some use case not served by Beckhoff's OPC UA implementation that you can point to? ---
**Author:** ![larsharald\_b](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@larsharald\_b](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/larsharald_b)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2025, 7:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/beckhoff-ads-driver/54652/44 "2025-09-12T19:59:28Z")
Of course OPC UA will do the job, but you basically need to throw more money at your setup because Beckhoff is charging you for Opc ua access on a runtime level.. Other than that, just the pure performance hit you are getting when turning on Opc ua forces you to choose a higher “performance class” of IPCs. ADS is used natively in the Beckhoff systems and will give a better integration to scada, in my opinion. Ignition has Siemens and Omron native drivers, so why not ADS:) ---
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2025, 8:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/beckhoff-ads-driver/54652/45 "2025-09-12T20:03:01Z")
> [@larsharald\_b](#): > > so why not ADS:) Well, it's coming. But up until now "why not" has been because there is already OPC UA, and while a few people have made vague mentions of performance, not a single person has ever backed it up with hard numbers and hardware models. I'm not doubting the claims, but these kinds of things help increase the priority. ---
**Author:** ![mazeyrat](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/mazeyrat/32/10955_2.png) [@mazeyrat](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mazeyrat)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2025, 9:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/beckhoff-ads-driver/54652/46 "2025-09-12T21:41:54Z")
> **[Embedded PCs - Modular DIN rail industrial PCs](https://www.beckhoff.com/en-us/products/ipc/embedded-pcs/)** > > The CX series Embedded PCs combined with the various I/O modules offer a compact industrial controller mounted on DIN rails. Embedded PCs series seems not supporting OPCUA, with limited CPU. For them ADS is probably the best solution. > **[C69xx | Compact Industrial PCs](https://www.beckhoff.com/en-us/products/ipc/pcs/c69xx-compact-industrial-pcs/)** > > Compact Industrial PCs for installation in control cabinets or control housings as a control platform for machine and system engineering application. for compact industrial PC with powerfull CPU like intel Core i7, OPCUA is a better choice with possibility to reach 100K tags without issue, but harware and software cost of such PC/PLC are too expensive for some market or you have to group Ignition and PLC on the same harware, wich is not always a good practice. IMHO ADS versus OPCUA for Beckhoff is like S7+ versus OPCUA for Siemens CPU. OPCU is only suitable with powerfull CPU but not for entry level CPU, especially if too many tags are used. As a side note, what is coming for Beckhoff PLC and seems important to me too, is the protocol to use for the support of the coming redundancy solution… OPCUA server with a virtual @IP, transparent for the client ? ADS or OPCUA connection for each CPU @IP ? ADS with a virtual @IP ? > **[Redundancy solutions for increased plant availability](https://www.beckhoff.com/en-us/products/automation/twincat-3-redundancy/)** > > TwinCAT 3 offers redundancy solutions for securing control and communication processes, which can be used to increase plant availability. > **[TwinCAT 3 Controller Redundancy](https://www.beckhoff.com/en-us/products/automation/twincat/tfxxxx-twincat-3-functions/tf1xxx-system/tf1100.html)** > > TwinCAT 3 Controller Redundancy provides an extension to enable redundant processing of TwinCAT 3 PLC programs on two industrial PCs and increases availability... Q4 2025 ? ---
**Author:** ![christofer.dutz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/christofer.dutz/32/76634_2.png) [@christofer.dutz](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/christofer.dutz)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2025, 8:05am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/beckhoff-ads-driver/54652/47 "2025-09-29T08:05:08Z")
Well … at least for Siemens I could throw in some numbers … admittedly most people I know that use Beckhoff use ADS and not OPC-UA. I have been told not too much has changed on the Siemens Side and I guess that’s why everyone is so happy about the S7CommPlus driver in 8.3. An S7 1500 at a customer was able to serve 200 tags every 2 seconds using OPC-UA. If they wen’t above that the IO load was so high, that the PLC went to error mode. With the old S7Comm protocol, I was able to extract the 2600 datapoints in 200ms with increasing the CPU load by I think it was only 7%. My main issue, that I have with OPC-UA, is that it’s a super heavy weight protocol and serving such a protocol, requires more of an application server on the PLC side. ---
**Author:** ![christofer.dutz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/christofer.dutz/32/76634_2.png) [@christofer.dutz](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/christofer.dutz)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2026, 3:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/beckhoff-ads-driver/54652/48 "2026-02-03T15:36:25Z")
> [@christofer.dutz](#): > > Well … at least for Siemens I could throw in some numbers … admittedly most people I know that use Beckhoff use ADS and not OPC-UA. I have been told not too much has changed on the Siemens Side and I guess that’s why everyone is so happy about the S7CommPlus driver in 8.3. As I mentioned in the other thread about this … We’re currently finishing the beta testing and I’m planning on adding Secure ADS support which required acquisition of some additional hardware. So far we support any TC2 and TC3 PLC. Currently working on building the tooling to interact with Igntition’s licensing system. If you want us to release the driver ASAP, you could do us and you a huge favor and volunteer to beta-test the drivers. We’d feel a lot more comfortable finally starting to sell the driver if we’d tested it on a wider range of installations. We’re even giving you a discount as a thank you for testing. So if anyone is interested, please ping me here or via [christofer.dutz@toddysoft.com](mailto:christofer.dutz@toddysoft.com) Chris ---
**Author:** ![christofer.dutz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/christofer.dutz/32/76634_2.png) [@christofer.dutz](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/christofer.dutz)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2026, 2:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/beckhoff-ads-driver/54652/49 "2026-02-16T14:17:50Z")
Some more updates on this … Over the weekend I added support for Secure AMS 🙂 I think as far as I know this is now the first third party driver that supports this 🙂 Still working on cleaning up the edges for now, but looking good. Guess I’ll also add Ams via MQTT, while I’m at it 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Frantz\_Miles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/898d66/32.png) [@Frantz\_Miles](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Frantz_Miles)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2026, 3:30pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/beckhoff-ads-driver/54652/50 "2026-02-16T15:30:33Z")
@christofer.dutz Excellent stuff - sent an email. I am curious though @Kevin.Herron ← Is ADS something that still MIGHT be on IA roadmap? ---
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2026, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/beckhoff-ads-driver/54652/51 "2026-02-16T15:55:12Z")
We have an ADS driver in development. It already works with TC3, we're waiting on real hardware and figuring out TC2 support. It will be part of the Ignition 2027.2 release. ---
**Author:** ![witman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d2c977/32.png) [@witman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/witman)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2026, 4:16pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/beckhoff-ads-driver/54652/52 "2026-02-16T16:16:14Z")
> [@Kevin.Herron](#): > > It already works with TC3 👀 TC3 is all we’re looking for. Is there an early access version we could try in 8.3.x? ---
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2026, 4:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/beckhoff-ads-driver/54652/53 "2026-02-16T16:22:25Z")
No, sorry. It's only going to be available in 2027.2, and won't likely ever be available in 8.3. ---
**Author:** ![Andrea\_Gasparini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dbc845/32.png) [@Andrea\_Gasparini](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Andrea_Gasparini)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2026, 9:08am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/beckhoff-ads-driver/54652/54 "2026-06-25T09:08:43Z")
Is there any plan or tentative timeline for when the new version will be released? ---
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2026, 1:25pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/beckhoff-ads-driver/54652/55 "2026-06-25T13:25:28Z")
The new version scheme encodes a coarse release date into the version itself; 2027.02 will be released in February of 2027. We also move to a fixed release cadence. ---
**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2026, 3:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/beckhoff-ads-driver/54652/56 "2026-06-25T15:59:06Z")
More words: > **[Ignition’s New Release Cadence Balances Cutting-Edge Features With Unwavering...](https://inductiveautomation.com/blog/ignitions-new-release-cadence-balances-cuttingedge-features-with-unwavering-stability)** > > Ignition 8.3 represents a new beginning for Ignition’s release cadence, so our company is moving to a new, more consistent release cadence for future editions of Ignition. [Previous page](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/beckhoff-ads-driver/54652.md?page=2)