Abstract: The disclosure relates to methods for a communication between a sensor and a satellite, and sensors for carrying out such a method. The sensor has a transmission unit for transmitting sensor data from the sensor to the satellite and a computing unit for calculating the position of the satellite at a specified point in time. The satellite is configured to receive and forward the sensor data. The method includes calculating a coverage duration using path parameters of the satellite and the position of the sensor, activating the transmission unit of the sensor during a transmission duration based on the calculated coverage duration, and transmitting the sensor data from the sensor to the satellite during the transmission duration.

Abstract: The invention relates to an automated method for providing local computing capacity for at least one local computing unit (1.1) for a less required computing task (3) of a demander, wherein the local computing unit (1.1) is used at least partially for controlling a local power generation unit (5.2), wherein the local computing unit (1.1) is provided as part of a local Edge Cloud (1), wherein the electrical energy generated by the local power generation unit (5.2) is used for supplying power to the Edge Cloud (1), and wherein the local computing capacity is provided to the demander by the Edge Cloud (1) in the event of an over-production of power. The invention also relates to an associated device for providing local computing capacity of at least one local computing unit (101) for a less required computing task (3) of a demander.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include an automated method for providing functionalities of a mobile unit for carrying out a function of a request unit required separately from the mobile unit. The method may include: providing the required function in the mobile unit; and carrying out the function based on a context. A context rule system is provided in the mobile unit for carrying out the function. The function is carried out in the mobile unit only if one or more rules of the context rule system are satisfied.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for transmitting sensor data from multiple sensors to a satellite. In a first phase, which is designated as a registration phase, the satellite registers the sensors in question and allocates each sensor a time window for transmitting the respective sensor data, and in a second phase, which is designated as a transmission phase, the satellite requests the sensor data in the individual sensors in a controlled manner, e.g., according to a list generated by the satellite during the registration phase. Thus, it is possible for satellites to access a ground-based sensor system in an optimized and self-learning manner. The disclosure additionally relates to a satellite suitable for carrying out the aforementioned method.

Abstract: A method is provided for determining an installation location. The method includes: providing a machine-readable description of the application to be installed; enhancing the machine-readable description with further requirements and/or properties; linking the application to be installed with an object identifier which includes the enhanced description and the requirements and/or properties of the application to be installed; linking objects existing in the distributed network environment with, in each case, at least one further object identifier which describes at least one property of an object; storing the object identifiers of the application to be installed and of the objects in the distributed network environment in a database; receiving a query regarding the application to be installed; providing the stored object identifiers of the application to be installed and of the objects for an evaluation unit; and receiving a determined appropriate installation location from the evaluation unit.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for transmitting sensor data from multiple sensors to a satellite. In a first phase, which is designated as a registration phase, the satellite registers the sensors in question and allocates each sensor a time window for transmitting the respective sensor data, and in a second phase, which is designated as a transmission phase, the satellite requests the sensor data in the individual sensors in a controlled manner, e.g., according to a list generated by the satellite during the registration phase. Thus, it is possible for satellites to access a ground-based sensor system in an optimized and self-learning manner. The disclosure additionally relates to a satellite suitable for carrying out the aforementioned method.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to methods for a communication between a sensor and a satellite, and sensors for carrying out such a method. The sensor has a transmission unit for transmitting sensor data from the sensor to the satellite and a computing unit for calculating the position of the satellite at a specified point in time. The satellite is configured to receive and forward the sensor data. The method includes calculating a coverage duration using path parameters of the satellite and the position of the sensor, activating the transmission unit of the sensor during a transmission duration based on the calculated coverage duration, and transmitting the sensor data from the sensor to the satellite during the transmission duration.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for use in production, which offers at least one production service or is connectable to a device offering a production service comprising a physical interface across which data in relation to at least one physical property are exchanged with at least one other device; further comprising a cyber physical interface across which data in relation to production service properties are exchanged with at least one other device; and comprising a communication interface across which at least one communication link having defined communication properties can be established. The invention further relates to a corresponding method.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for allocating at least one digital resource of a local, modular computer network. The computer network has at least two computing modules. Each of the computing modules is assigned a resource value for a digital resource. In accordance with a resource request having a demand value, at least one of the digital resources is allocated to the request. The demand value is compared with at least one of the resource values. The method acts and the associated algorithms may be stored in particular in an image file. Because of the high flexibility of the method, mobile computing modules, etc., may also be integrated into the local, modular computer network. The computer network thus exhibits the modular and flexible character of the computer network. The computer network is not configured as a fixed structure, but rather may also dynamically expand and contract.

Abstract: A method is provided for determining an installation location. The method includes: providing a machine-readable description of the application to be installed; enhancing the machine-readable description with further requirements and/or properties; linking the application to be installed with an object identifier which includes the enhanced description and the requirements and/or properties of the application to be installed; linking objects existing in the distributed network environment with, in each case, at least one further object identifier which describes at least one property of an object; storing the object identifiers of the application to be installed and of the objects in the distributed network environment in a database; receiving a query regarding the application to be installed; providing the stored object identifiers of the application to be installed and of the objects for an evaluation unit; and receiving a determined appropriate installation location from the evaluation unit.

Abstract: A railway automation network includes a publish/subscribe system with at least one transmitter-end application, at least one transmitter-end message broker, at least one receiver-end message broker and at least one receiver-end application. The at least one transmitter-end message broker is configured to map a message published by the transmitter-end application or one of the transmitter-end applications onto at least two redundant, at least partially physically independent network paths of the railway automation network on the basis of a subject specified in the message. The railway automation network is configured to transmit the message to the receiver-end message broker or at least one of the receiver-end message brokers simultaneously over the at least two network paths. The receiver-end message broker is configured to transmit the message to the at least one receiver-end application. A method for transmitting messages in a railway automation network is also provided.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for allocating at least one digital resource of a local, modular computer network. The computer network has at least two computing modules. Each of the computing modules is assigned a resource value for a digital resource. In accordance with a resource request having a demand value, at least one of the digital resources is allocated to the request. The demand value is compared with at least one of the resource values. The method acts and the associated algorithms may be stored in particular in an image file. Because of the high flexibility of the method, mobile computing modules, etc., may also be integrated into the local, modular computer network. The computer network thus exhibits the modular and flexible character of the computer network. The computer network is not configured as a fixed structure, but rather may also dynamically expand and contract.

Abstract: A method, computer program product and controller for controlling communication services for a plurality of applications on a physical network having a plurality M of network nodes providing certain network resources, wherein each of the applications is described by a set of requirements and is configured to run on at least two of the network nodes. The controller includes a generator and a calculator. The generator generates a network model of the physical network including a topology of the physical network and a node model for each of the network nodes, where the node model describes node capabilities and node resources of the network node. The calculator calculates virtual networks for the applications by mapping each respective set of requirements of the applications to the generated network model, where each of the calculated virtual networks includes at least two network nodes and a slice of the certain network resources.

Abstract: In order to extend the “Software Defined Networking” of the cyber-physical respectively the industry automation network such that the quality of networking is improved up to industrial grade and which resolves the bunch of problems discussed in the introductory part of the application, it is proposed to merge the usage control of Operating System resources by App's and/or Virtual Machines running on/hosted by a Networked Device including an Operating System in a cyber-physical Network with the controlling a modified SDN-System extending a conventional SDN-System to an “End-to-End”-Communication within the cyber-physical Network provides on a per-application-basis and to control all this from a SDN-Controller being adapted to these circumstances and requirements.

Abstract: A method is provided for incorporating a communication device in a network including a set of configuration servers having at least one configuration server, and a set of productive servers having at least one productive server. The method includes (a) establishing a connection between the communication device and the network, which connection is restricted solely to a stipulated selection from the set of configuration servers; (b) obtaining configuration data from the stipulated selection of configuration servers, which stipulate access rights of the communication device to a selection from the set of productive servers; and (c) configuring the communication device using the obtained configuration data such that access by the communication device is restricted to the selection from the set of productive servers.

Abstract: A method for configuring at least one device in an Ethernet-based communication network comprising a plurality of devices with Ethernet capability, wherein the topological position of a respective device to be configured, which is associated with a device type, in the communication network is ascertained, the respective device is sent configuration data, which correspond to its device type and to its ascertained topological position, from a database which contains a plurality of configuration data for at least one device type and a plurality of topological positions of the at least one device type, and the respective device is then configured based on the transmitted configuration data.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for use in production, which offers at least one production service or is connectable to a device offering a production service comprising a physical interface across which data in relation to at least one physical property are exchanged with at least one other device; further comprising a cyber physical interface across which data in relation to production service properties are exchanged with at least one other device; and comprising a communication interface across which at least one communication link having defined communication properties can be established. The invention further relates to a corresponding method.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for transmitting data of an application, which runs on source nodes, to a target node. Required resources are requested for the transmission in a network and the network may be subdivided into at least two virtual sub-networks and has a plurality of nodes. The method includes requesting of resources specified by a plurality of quality parameters via an application which runs on the source node, and transmitting data of the application via a virtual sub-network in which the requested resources are available.

Abstract: A method is provided for incorporating a communication device in a network including a set of configuration servers having at least one configuration server, and a set of productive servers having at least one productive server. The method includes (a) establishing a connection between the communication device and the network, which connection is restricted solely to a stipulated selection from the set of configuration servers; (b) obtaining configuration data from the stipulated selection of configuration servers, which stipulate access rights of the communication device to a selection from the set of productive servers; and (c) configuring the communication device using the obtained configuration data such that access by the communication device is restricted to the selection from the set of productive servers.

Abstract: Method and system for providing device-specific operator data for an automation device in an automation installation, which automation device authenticates itself to an authentication server in the automation installation via at least one authentication credential, wherein if up-to-date device-specific operator data from the installation operator of the automation installation are available for the automation device, then the up-to-date device-specific operator data are tied to the authentication credential of the authentication device.