Standardized Systems Engineering and Assessment In research and technology transfer projects, the Design and Assessment Group develops solutions that help companies achieve their strategic and business goals.
Today's inescapable conditions are rapidly changing requirements, historically grown, heterogeneous IT application landscapes and short technological innovation cycles. To enable business information systems to fulfil their tasks in this area of conflicting interests, flexible and agile concepts are required both in the development of individual applications and in the evolution of IT application landscapes.
Engineering of standardized systems
An exciting field of application is the future energy supply system, which is increasingly based on IT - the so-called "smart grid": Increasingly decentralised management of energy flows and the spread of decentralised, regenerative generators are changing the existing communication and energy distribution structure. This cannot usually be mapped with existing IT systems, so that a corresponding further development of the architecture of both individual IT systems and interacting systems is necessary. Standardization plays a major role in ensuring interoperability between the systems.
The Group applies its broad methodological knowledge in the area of designing standardized systems for complex IT structures to consulting in the areas of enterprise architecture and software development.
The purpose of Enterprise Architecture (EA) is the documentation of relevant information at various levels of an enterprise; such as strategies, business processes, the IT application landscape and the IT infrastructure.
Linking this information across levels helps to gain a better understanding of the relationships between levels. For example, it provides insight into which business processes are supported by which software applications or which projects will change what part of the IT application landscape. Tools for the analysis and visualization of these relationships support decision makers and designers both in business and IT.
Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) deals with the long-term planning of IT and how IT is best aligned with the business goals of an enterprise. It enables the goal-oriented designed and control of IT projects so that a continuous evolution towards the best IT support for business needs is possible.
Software Architecture
Flexibility is one of the most important requirements of modern business information systems; systems are required to be quickly and inexpensively adaptable to new or changing business processes. Model-driven software development (MDSD) meets the demand for increased flexibility through the use of modeling and generator technology. However, model-driven approaches are only slowly gaining importance in practical application for a number of reasons:
- Existing model-driven approaches tend to focus on the development of new software systems and neglect the very important need for integration and evolution of existing systems in practice.
- Additionally, today's model-driven methods encapsulate technical platform specifics well, but still require input models, which are often conceptually only slightly more abstract than program code. The cost of creation and maintenance are difficult to lower.
- A third reason is the lack of adequate tool support of model-driven development. Available tools are often specialized to individual development steps, but poorly combinable with other tools, so that universal support for model-driven projects becomes an obstacle.
Assessment of standardized systems
The increasing decentralization of energy management due to the growing number of decentralized, renewable generators requires changes to the established communications and power distribution structures. These are usually not coverable by existing IT systems - integration in a plug-and-play seldom possible. An increasing number of new standards and norms are under development to achieve the interoperability of field devices and control systems. OFFIS is actively participating in national and international standardization processes, such as the IEC or the German VDE / DKE. The CISE (Center for IT Standards in the Energy Sector) is the OFFIS Competence Cluster for automation and network control technology and provides training in standards, support during the implementation of projects and guidance for technology choices by manufacturers, energy suppliers and advisors.
Our topics:
- Safety Considerations
- Standards
- Informationmodels in the Energy Sector
Persons 
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Marie Antoinette Clausen (geb. van Amelsvoort)
E-Mail: Marie.Clausen(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-151, Room: I6 U 02
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Dr. rer. nat. Christina Kronberg (geb. Delfs)
E-Mail: christina.kronberg(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722 161, Room: I6 U 01
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Maike Salbeck (geb. Rosinger)
E-Mail: maike.salbeck(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-218, Room: I6 U 01
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Publications
2018
From Integration Profiles to Interoperability Testing for Smart Energy Systems at Connectathon Energy
Marion Gottschalk, Gerald Franzl, Matthias Frohner, Richard Pasteka, Mathias Uslar; Methods and Concepts for Designing and Validating Smart Grid Systems; 12 / 2018
Interoperabilität im Datenaustausch in der Energiewirtschaft - Vom Use Case zum Test der Integrationsprofile
Gerald Franzl, Marion Gottschalk, Matthias Frohner, Valerie Reif, Georg Koch, Angela Berger; 15. Symposium Energieinnovation 2018; February / 2018
Reifegradmodell - Konzeption für netzdienliche IKT
Agnetha Flore; Mathias Uslar; Postersession des 2. Statusseminar "Zukunftsfähige Stromnetze"; 11 / 2018
Smart grid digitalization in Germany by standardized advanced metering infrastructure and green button
Jürgen Meister, Norman Ihle, Sebastian Lehnhoff & Mathias Uslar; Application of Smart Grid Technologies; 05 / 2018
Smart Grid Security Method: Consolidating Requirements Using a Systematic Approach
Marie Clausen, Marion Gottschalk, Sebastian Hanna, Christina Kronberg, Christine Rosinger, Maike Rosinger, Judith Schulte, Johann Schütz, Mathias Uslar; CIRED WORKSHOP 2018 proceedings "Microgrids and local energy communities"; June / 2018
Structured workflow achieving interoperable Smart Energy systems
Marion Gottschalk, Gerald Franzl, Matthias Frohner, Richard Pasteka, Mathias Uslar; Energy Informatics; October / 2018
Use Case methodology: a progress report
Marie Clausen, Rolf Apel, Marc Dorchain, Matthias Postina and Mathias Uslar; Proceedings of the 7th DACH+ Conference on Energy Informatics; 10 / 2018
2017
New Control Functions for IEC 61850
Julia Masurkewitz-Möller; Thomas Kumm; Mathias Uslar; Wolfgang Friedrich; Proceedings of the INDIN 2017; 08 / 2017
Simulation: A Case for Interoperability based on LCIM
Mathias Uslar; Judith Schulte; Davood Babazadeh; Florian Schlögl; Maike Rosinger; Proceeding of the INDIN 2017; 8 / 2017
Smart grid architecture - key elements and definitions
Sebastian Lehnhoff; Mathias Uslar; Communication, Control and Security Challenges for the Smart Grid; 2 / 2017
