There is one problem: The interfaces of the many components often do not match. Scientists of the TU Dresden Chair of Technical Information Management Systems now present a solution to this: They develop an innovative tool for the automated design, which has already proven its functionality in the fields of smart building and smart home. The tool is able to find – among millions of possible solutions – those where the single parts optimally match.

Building automation has taken a pioneering role in the last 25 years. Facilities with a plethora of networked processors have long been customary; smallest things such as light switches are naturally networked. Questions regarding the WHO and HOW have already been answered, clearing the way for “next generation demands”: complexity and interoperability.

A global approach in respect thereof could be validated in room automation because there, “next generation” standards already exist, allowing for a semantic description of products

and customer requirements. They no longer stipulate the components’ characteristics but guarantee producers the level of freedom they desire.

Read the full article of TU scientists here.

You can find the above-mentioned article as well as many more in the issue “Sprungbrett Informationstechnik” (“Stepping Stone Communication Technology”) of the Dresden Transfer Letter. For the past 25 years, on-going transfer priorities of Dresden-based researching businesses and scientific institutions have regularly been published there. By publishing innovative research and development results, editors of the Dresden Transfer Letter (TU Dresden, TechnologieZentrumDresden, GWT-TUD and the Chamber of Industry and Commerce Dresden) would like to contribute to a successful exploitation.