New center investigates the development of reliable systems

The new Josef Ressel Center, endowed with 1.7 million euros over five years, was inaugurated at the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences on Monday. Half is financed by the Ministry of Economy and four business partners: Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart), Siemens AG (Munich) and the national companies has.to.be GmbH (Radstadt) and Geoconsult (Salzburg). The director is Walser native professor FH Christian Neureiter (40). Neu-reiter: “When fully developed, we will have eleven employees, many of them active students.” The “Center for Dependable System-of-Systems Engineering” is tasked with researching the development of reliable systems in an increasingly complex world: “The key is networking, such as the interaction between the vehicle and the control system traffic in the Smart City area, or the central charging control between the electric grid and the electric car, so that everyone can charge at the same time and the grid remains stable, keyword: smart grids. Because new technologies are However, in practice, what counts is that they work reliably, not just in the lab, but in actual operation. “The installation came from one of two research groups at the Center for Safe Energy Informatics of the FH, of which he is still a member. In addition to Smart City and Smart Grids, the topics of the automotive sector and Industry 4.0 are also opening up as research fields.