How can smart grids support the home care of elderly people?
What kind of additional possibilities are arising for our future due to latest developments in technology?
Christian Neureiter will discuss opportunities and risks through the merging of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) and Smart Grid technologies on 26 March 2014 at the “Forschungscafé des Schülerforschungszentrums Berchtesgaden”.

Following an invitation Christian Neureiter travelled to Brussels for a workshop on developing Smart Grid Archtecture Systems in the European M/490 reference architecture organized by DISCERN, a FP7 financed EU project.

For organzing a model-based development of Smart Grid Systems in a manageable way, we created a special tool: the SGAM (Smart Grid Architecture Model) toolbox.
Our new toolbox enables the integration of the European Smart Grid Architecture Model in a Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) process. The European Smart Grid Architecture Model was realized by the European Commitee for Electrochemical Standardization within the framework of the European Standardization Mandate M/490. Thus, we support users in dealing with complex Smart Grid Systems.

“Besides providing support in the elementary steps of development as analysis, architecure, design and implementation, our toolbox offers a consistent and structured representation of the realizable systems and, at the same time, provides a basis for structured KPI (Key Performance Indicator) Evaluation”, explains Christian Neureiter, member of our research team and primarily responsible for the development.
Meanwhile the SGAM Toolbox has been approved by Sparx Systems as a 3rd party solution for Energy Systems. The toolbox initial version is offered as “free to use” (please just let us know you are using our toolbox and let us reference your logo/website here) and is available here.

“Hacking – an insight”
In order to develop a good defense in IT, it is useful to know the attacks. Using practical examples that are demonstrated live, an overview of threat scenarios in the IT security is given. Alongside classics such as Man-in-the-Middle attacks, Pishing and social Engineering. Dominik Engel will also introduce new developments and discuss countermeasures.
The eDAY is organized by the UBIT (Fachgruppe Unternehmensberatung und Informationstechnologie) of Salzburgs Chamber of Commerce. The latest developments and application possibilities in information and communication technology are presented on this year´s event on 6 March 2014.

Christian Neureiter presented our research on handling advanced and distributed Smart Grid Systems at DED&M in Paris. Our approach provides a promising basis für a domain specific architecture development with integration of the European standardization mandate M/490.

• C. Dänekas, C. Neureiter, S. Rohjans, M. Uslar, and D. Engel, “Towards a Model-Driven-Architecture Process for Smart Grid Projects,” in Digital Enterprise Design & Management, P. Benghozi, D. Krob, A. Lonjon, and H. Panetto, Eds., Springer International Publishing, 2014, vol. 261, p. 47–58.
  [Bibtex]

  @InCollection{Daenekas14a,
  author = {Christian D\"{a}nekas and Christian Neureiter and Sebastian Rohjans and Mathias Uslar and Dominik Engel},
  title = {Towards a Model-Driven-Architecture Process for Smart Grid Projects},
  booktitle = {Digital Enterprise Design \& Management},
  publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
  year = {2014},
  editor = {Benghozi, Pierre‐Jean and Krob, Daniel and Lonjon, Antoine and Panetto, Herv\'{e}},
  volume = {261},
  series = {Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing},
  pages = {47--58},
  isbn = {978-3-319-04312-8},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-04313-5_5},
  pdf = {http://www.en-trust.at/papers/Daenekas14a.pdf},
  url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04313-5_5},
  }