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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Christoph Bauschmann
E-Mail: christoph.bauschmann(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-226, Room: I6-U05
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Christina Kronberg
E-Mail: Christina.Kronberg(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-161, Room: I6-U03
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Designetz
Baukasten Energiewende - Von Einzellösungen zum effizienten System der Zukunft (sorry - only available in german)
Duration: 2017 - 2020E
enera
Dezentrale Energieversorgung im Praxistest (sorry - only available in German)
Duration: 2016 - 2020
ERIGrid
European Research Infrastructure supporting Smart Grid Systems Technology Development, Validation and Roll Out
Duration: 2015 - 2020L
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TDX-Assist
Coordination of Transmission and Distribution data eXchanges for renewables integration in the European marketplace through Advanced, Scalable and Secure ICT Systems and Tools
Duration: 2017 - 2020
Publications
2019
Bidirectional Power and Data Flow via Enhanced Portal TSO-DSO Coordination
Mohammed Radi, Gareth Taylor, Nermin Suljanovic, Mathias Uslar, Julia Köhlke; 54th International Universities Power Engineering Conference – UPEC 2019; 09 / 2019
Boundary objects as an approach for overcoming knowledge boundaries in Smart Grid projects
Julia Köhlke; ICREN 2019 Book of Abstracts; April / 2019
Energy Data Flow in Smart Grids - A conceptual model for addressing various use cases
Mohammed Radi, Gareth Taylor, Mathias Uslar, Julia Köhlke; CIRED Conference Proceedings 2019; June / 2019
Introducing the Concept of Technical Debt To Smart Grids: a System Engineering Perspective
Johann Schütz, Mathias Uslar; CIRED 2019 workshop proceedings; 06 / 2019
Knowledge boundaries in innovative Smart Grid projects
Julia Köhlke; 2nd International Conference on energy research and social science 2019; May / 2019
Learning vs. bridging of Big Data for innovation development in the Smart Grid
Julia Köhlke; AMCIS 2019 Proceedings; August / 2019
Migration Paths for Smart Grids and their evaluation using a case study
Agnetha Flore; Marie Clausen; Mathias Uslar; Enabling High-penetration Renewable Integration into a Smarter Grid; 11 / 2019
Organisationsentwicklung mit Smart Grid Reifegradmodellen für Versorger
Agnetha Flore; Mathias Uslar; 09 / 2019
Relevance and boundaries of innovation cooperation in the Smart Grid and its influence on energy transition
Julia Köhlke; CIRED Conference Proceedings 2019; June / 2019
