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JOURNAL Smart home and building solutions. Global. Secure. Connected. 2021 KNX GOES DIGIT@L KNX IoT is taking shape IPBLiS: Standards joining forces ETS6: Secure, Smart, Open Award-winning KNX projects Version Englisch Smart home and building solutions. Global. Secure. Connected. 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ORDER AT: //MY.KNX.ORG Anzeige A3 Members.indd 1 16.12.2020 12:02:57 Anzeige ETS 27042019.indd 1 14.02.2020 13:18:25 KNX Journal 2021 | KNX.ORG EDITORIAL | 1 Editorial 2 Farewell to the island 3 KNX: constantly on the move 4 Joining forces in the new IP-BLiS initiative 6 sonnen becomes the first storage manufacturer to receive KNX certification 8 KNX welcomes SONY as 500th member 10 KNX Awards 2020 goes digit@l Projects | Winner KNX Awards 12 Smart Home for a self-determined life 14 Nobakht Offices with Energy Efficiency 16 Theatre Lighting installation 18 Smart Living in the E-Haus 20 Research in the Smart Living Lab 22 Gold LEED certification 24 Simulating Off-Grid Living 26 Al-Masa Smart Hotel in first Smart City System 28 KNX IoT is taking shape 32 Electrical Vehicle charging and Energy Management Tools 34 ETS6: Secure, Smart, Open 36 ETS Inside connects professionals and users 38 KNX Virtual – The success goes on and beyond 40 New ETS Apps Members 42 New Members 54 New Products Partners 72 KNX introduces a ranking for KNX Partners 74 National Groups 80 Userclubs | Professionals 83 New Training Centres 86 New Scientific Partners Out and About 87 KNXperience 88 #KNXis30 90 KNX at International Conferences and Fairs 91 Events and Fairs Schedule 92 Imprint 2 | EDITORIAL KNX Journal 2021 | KNX.ORG Farewell to the island “Our age of fear is largely the result The future is digital. The method is IP. of trying to do today’s work with yes- The tools are 0 and 1. terday’s tools”, as the Canadian phi- These are tools of today for the work losopher Herbert Marshall McLuhan of tomorrow. (1911-1980) put it. Marshall McLuhan Unlike the past: the Romans had no is considered a pioneer of new media number 0. Why have a number for theory and the creator of the “glob- something you can’t count. They al- al village” concept. That was back in so thought that the number 1 was 1962. superfluous because you can only start counting things once you have But we are only just beginning to build more than one of them. Aristotle even that global village now. Until now, we thought that the number 0 should be just didn’t have automation technol- banned because dividing by 0 creates ogy covering all of the applications such a mess. But that’s where he was necessary to fully automate a building wrong. and enable the resulting services. We, on the other hand, are right. KNX With KNX IoT, a platform is now is as KNX IoT today for tomorrow. available that makes an IP-based in- We are the future. frastructure the backbone of build- This quote, loosely based on Mashall ing system automation, doing away McLuhan, applies to our digital age: with isolated solutions. But this also “There are no passengers in digitali- means: farewell to the island and hello sation, everyone is part of the crew. Heinz Lux CEO, KNX Association to a world of smart sector coupling, So: all hands on deck for KNX IoT! to smart entertainment technology, management or facility services as well as media technology, access con- trol and alarm systems. KNX remains an interoperable world in itself that can also interact with other worlds via the REST API interface, because the digital world of IoT - the global village – requires data in a generally under- standable machine-readable format. KNX delivers. The future is digital. The method is IP. The tools are 0 and 1. These are tools of today for the work of tomorrow. KNX Journal 2021 | KNX.ORG EDITORIAL | 3 KNX: constantly on the move Now that the election of the KNX opportunities that we have not yet Executive Board in February of 2021 mined: is drawing nearer, I took the time to • as we have demonstrated through- look back at the accomplishments of out our history, KNX always builds the current Executive Board in the on top: well, it is time to extend the last five years. KNX classic world with the possibili- If looking just at figures, the last five ty to also have KNX communication years have been characterized by a not via KNX TP, but by using other steady growth, with the year 2020 IPv6 (wireless) networks to share announcing itself as the best year KNX data between devices. This is ever in the long history of the Asso- referred to as the KNX IoT Point API, ciation. In this unpleasant year, KNX which is currently under develop- has been able to convince an estimat- ment and will also allow us unprec- ed 10 % more new installers/integra- edented solutions, not in the least tors to purchase an ETS license, even in the field of energy management. compared to the record breaking year The field of energy management of 2019. In 2020, KNX was also able will play a significant role in the next to welcome its 500th KNX member, years, as the EU Green Deal is ex- SONY. pected not to be the only initiative The figures above do not come as a to curb climate change. surprise: with my Fellow-Board mem- • the KNX IoT Point API will also intro- bers and the KNX team in Brussels, duce alternative IT Cyber Security we are constantly evaluating where mechanisms that may be used next Franz Kammerl KNX could be improved and what is (Siemens) is president of the to KNX Secure. missing to make KNX an even bigger KNX Association in Brussels • what we have started with the KNX success. In the last five years: IoT 3rd Party interface and because • we convinced the market that KNX of the semantics we have included also provides the best answers to in that and we could also include in the growing demand for cyber se- services based on KNX data. We can our product data, KNX will hold the curity in home and building automa- with this rightfully claim: KNX is the best cards to e. g. improve the plan- tion by extending its standard with home and building automation Ser- ning stage, ease the configuration of KNX Secure, drawing up system and vice Enabler. products and will become the best test specifications, providing sup- • also for the classic KNX system, we data provider for Building Informa- port in ETS and test tools, making are not resting on our laurels: the tion Modelling (BIM). sure the solution materialized in real KNX System Group is working on products and bringing it to interna- solutions that will improve the use of I hope the above makes one thing tional standardization (EN 50090- KNX RF in existing TP installations clear: KNX has a lot of different things 3-4, EN ISO 22510). (Segment Coupler), make KNX RF to offer to a lot of different busi- • we worked intensively on improv- Multi more energy efficient, bringing nesses. Those that want to contin- ing the connectivity to the wealth down the time to include KNX Se- ue extending their KNX classic offer of data that the many thousands cure products in installations, …. continue to be served, those wanting of KNX installations store, by creat- • all the above described features to discover new horizons and use IP ing the KNX IoT 3rd Party interface will see the light in the forthcoming as communication can do so just as (see https://schema.knx.org). This ETS6 generation, which is sched- well. Third parties wanting to inter- interface will revolutionize the way uled for release in the course of 2021 face with KNX also become part of non-KNX clients tap into the data and in which also the UX will be im- the KNX community. All with one sin- of KNX installations, the only home proved (e. g. simplification of the gle aim: improving interoperability in and building automation system licensing workflow). smart homes and buildings! worldwide to provide such a REST- ful manufacturer independent inter- In spite of all the above, my current Looking forward to continuing work- face. This is the interface that will Fellow-Board members and myself ing with the entire community on this enable the realization of even more are convinced that there are still vast beautiful solution, KNX! 4 | EDITORIAL KNX Journal 2021 | KNX.ORG Joining forces in the new IP-BLiS initiative BACnet International, KNX Association, OCF, Thread Group and Zigbee Alliance work together BACnet International, KNX Association, OCF, Thread Group and the Zigbee Alliance are working together to better align commercial buildings with users’ connectivity needs and to improve the integration of smart building products.