Interoperability tests on smart home products with the VDE Test Suite 2.0
Cross-product IOP and uniform security standards are the foundation for marketing Smart Living products and applications. The VDE Institute offers comprehensive testing and conformity evaluation services for such applications. The cloud-based VDE Test Suite 2.0 allows for remote-controlled testing of products for interoperability.
VDE works with associations, energy suppliers, and manufactures on standardizing interoperable systems and provides testing systems for communication tests. Interoperability is a requirement that is fulfilled at different levels in the available smart living solutions:
- Networking technology as a common standard from an alliance of manufacturers
-Syntactical interoperability through compliance of protocol standards (e.g. KNX) - A manufacturer’s closed system with proprietary networking technology
-Syntactical interoperability as a necessary product characteristic (e.g. HomeMatic) - Gateway-based platform for bridging network technologies
-Cross-technology syntactical interoperability (e.g. QIVICON) - Cross-technology and cross-manufacturer platform for implementing applications
-Cross-system semantic interoperability (e.g. EEBus) - Open integration platform with an ecosystem and open API for implementing smart home applications by independent developers
-Semantic interoperability (e.g. Eclipse SH)