A versatile networked embedded platform for KNX/EIB
Fritz Praus, Wolfgang Kästner, Georg Neugschwandtner · reposiTUm (TU Wien) · 2006
Abstract — The deployment of home and building automa-tion systems (BAS) allows to increase comfort, safety and se-curity and to reduce operational cost in the building domain. Today such systems typically follow a hierarchical distributed approach. While control networks interconnect smart sensors and actuators, a backbone network provides the infrastructure for management tasks. Devices interconnecting these networks play a strategic role. Especially in the home domain, the in-tegration of various control and data networks is essential for maximum benefit. The objective of my diploma thesis [1, 2] was to design such an embedded and versatile interconnection platform in hard- and software with a particular focus on the European Installation Bus (KNX/EIB) Twisted Pair (TP). I.