VDE – Smart Garden, Smart Home, Smart Living

In the middle of hall 26a, trade fair visitors can inform themselves about future technologies at the IFA NEXT Innovation Engine stage. Trends and possibilities for making work and life more efficient, convenient and effective are discussed here with various speakers from many different companies. Of course, the experts from the VDE Institute could not miss out.

Tuesday, 09/10 at 12:40 pm at the Red Engine - Michael Wenzel: Consumer Centricity - Konsumentenorientierung, global denken, lokal handeln 

Tuesday, 09/10 at 11 am at the Blue Engine - Dr. Dennis-Keni Kipker: Cybersecurity - Aktuelles aus der Gesetzgebung

Digitalization has long since arrived in our day-to-day lives. An increasing number of devices are being controlled via a smartphone or tablet app. The garden area is by no means excluded from this. Networked devices are intended to make life easier and more pleasant, while also saving energy and money.

VDE Global Services offers operating instructions to ensure that there are no problems when setting up the equipment - for instance when running the cables used by mowing robots. With our so-called Smart Manuals, consumers are shown, in an effective and efficient way, how the set-up is successfully carried out. And that in every language. 

Safety ought also to play an important role in the green oasis of well-being. Regardless of whether functional safety, product safety or information safety, with networked devices - the well-being of oneself and that of the family is optimally protected if the products are labeled with the appropriate VDE symbol. And, to ensure functionality, it is imperative that the devices are suitable for outdoor use. You can identify this, for example, by the VDE symbol for the protection class IP44. Stop by and let us advise you on your product. 

Manufacturers of household appliances are not only confronted with the growing demands of consumers, but also with increasingly complex regulatory and legal requirements. The experts at the VDE Institute will show you what matters, and what advantages the VDE labels can offer you. You can listen to music from a VDE-certified hi-fi system and see how sharp the pictures on an 8K television (also VDE certified) actually are. 

At our demonstration area for cybersecurity, our experts demonstrate what happens when data is transmitted, and how hackers can access this data if the transmission is not encrypted. Find out how you can transmit your data safely and securely.

Furthermore, the experts of the VDE Institute provide various services to assist manufacturers and vendors of networked systems and devices in order to make them secure for the user. Stop by and learn how you can secure your devices, apps and systems.