CHAIN

Those CECED as European federation of the domestic appliance manufacturers, with CHAIN (CECED Home Appliances interoperating network) for communication of electrical domestic appliances on the way brought a standard, new yardsticks within the range home automation and/or. "intelligent living" to set is.

In that KonnexWorld-wide numerous companies from the industries white commodity have themselves combination, Heating, Sanitarily, Ventilation and building engineering united. One agreed on the KNX standard as the further basis, that the best beginnings from the predecessor standards Batibus, EHS and EIB to unite should.

Is used minutes and/or with CHAIN abstraction. on the hardware side the single standards EHS and Konnex. CHAIN describes manufacturer-spreading minutes on this basis for the change of data and control instructions for interlaced household appliances.

Communication within the house is manufactured either over stromleitungen (power LINE) or radio communications over KNX RF (868 MHz). In both cases neither the transfer of new cables nor specialized knowledge are necessary for the configuration (plug and play).

CHAIN defines minutes for data exchange between a "service gateway" and interlaced single devices such as cool and gefrierschraenken, Washing machines, Trocknern, Dishwashers and baking-ovens. Thus steering and supervising key functions are made possible, which z.B. the remote maintenance of devices, the remote diagnostics of errors, automatic maintenance, an energy and a loading management or simply updating programs permit.

Standard and committees

• EHS / Konnex
• CECED

See also

• OSGi - middleware standard (Java Framework) for the integration of CHAIN in service gateways