The Fraunhofer Institute for Mechatronic Systems Design IEM in Paderborn possesses outstanding competencies in the field of “Intelligent Technical Systems”. Its three departments Product Development, Control Technology and Software Engineering concentrate on the development of mechatronic systems and the conception of the necessary production systems. The group develops new tools and techniques for the development of mechatronic products, model-based designs, and efficient systems as well as software solutions. This is done in applied research projects in close cooperation with companies, thereby helping them to manage the change to mechatronics and to develop innovative intelligent technical systems. In this project, contributions will be made by the research group IoT Systems that is part of the Software Engineering and IT-Security department. This department is headed by Dr. Matthias Meyer and focuses on processes, methods, and tools for the development of high quality embedded software. The department is associated with and works in close cooperation with the software engineering group at Paderborn University headed by Prof. Dr. Eric Bodden and focussing on secure software engineering.
Role in the project:
In the course of the project it’s OWL realized, that the project would benefit a lot from the competencies in secure engineering and operation of IoT systems of Fraunhofer IEM. In addition, different from the way it was initially planned, it’s OWL will not have the required capacity to perform the project. Thus, Fraunhofer IEM will join the project and keep a strong cooperation with it’s OWL and its linked third parties Weidmüller and Phoenix Contact. Fraunhofer IEM will mainly act as interface to Weidmüller and Phoenix Contact in order to provide use cases (scenarios, requirements, data, test environment) for SecureIoT services, resulting in a MWI4.0 use case specification. Fraunhofer IEM is responsible for deploying, validating and testing SecureIoT services from an end user perspective, especially in cooperation with Weidmüller and Phoenix (in particular T6.2), for coordinating and integrating contributions from Weidmüller and Phoenix Contact (WP6), and for creating materials for dissemination and presenting them together with it's OWL (WP 8).