Research Areas

Research areas

The Chair for Process Communication is concerned with the following main research areas:

Industrial communication systems

•     Ethernet-based industrial systems
•     Fieldbus systems
•     Management concepts of heterogeneous industrial networks
•     Middleware, distributed applications

Information models in automation

•     Device and interaction models in the life cycle
•     Consistent description methods

Industrial Internet

•     Integration of IT solutions and automation systems
•     Web technologies in automation
•     Industrial Security