Since December 2017, 16 high-ranking partners from domestic industry and science have developed guidelines, methods, tools and components for secure IoT-based applications in the innovation areas of automated driving and Industry 4.0. The innovations realized within the framework of the Austrian lighthouse initiative IoT4CPS (funded in the "Industry of the Future" program of the FFG) thus sustainably strengthen Austria as an Industrie 4.0 location. The project, with a total budget of around 5 million euros, was funded by the FFG with around 3 million euros as part of the BMK's "ICT of the Future" initiative.
The AIT Austrian Institute of Technology as consortium leader of "IoT4CPS" and its project partners will present the extensive project results to a broad professional audience in the afternoon at the "5th SUMMIT INDUSTRY 4.0 Austria", which will be held this year on December 10, 2020 in virtual space and organized by the Platform Industry 4.0.
In the IoT4CPS project, the challenges arising from the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in real industrial environments have been addressed over the past three years. Since in this context, in addition to cybersecurity issues, aspects of availability and (physical) safety must also be addressed from the design to the operation of the plant, the project developed methods for a joint consideration of safety and security over the entire lifecycle. In doing so, the topic of safety was considered at all levels, i.e. from the sensor to the communication interfaces, right up to networked plants. The suitability of the innovative project results for use in networked industrial production facilities and in the area of networked vehicles was evaluated using various industrial demonstrators.