Stephan Lauer from Wieland Electric GmbH, Professor Dr. Ludger Hovestadt from RaumComputer AG and Georg Schemmann from Beckhoff received the innovation prize on behalf of their respective companies.
Light + Building 2002 | Innovationspreis
Light + Building 2002 | Innovation prize for architecture and technology
The innovation prize for architecture and technology was awarded at the Light + Building trade fair in Frankfurt, Germany, in April 2002. The prize had been announced by the technical journals AIT and “Intelligente Architektur” in co-operation with Messe Frankfurt GmbH. In the “Building technologies” category, the 1st prize went to the project “RaumComputer” – a co-operation between the companies RaumComputer AG from Karlsruhe, Wieland Electric GmbH from Bamberg and Beckhoff. The focus was not so much on the products themselves but on the co-operation between companies and architects.

The panel, consisting of architects and representatives from the Light + Building sponsor associations, explained their decision as follows: As an innovative building automation system, the RaumComputer forms an “open and comprehensive, Internet- and softwareoriented softwareoriented information and communication platform” for integrated building services. “Open, because it operates exclusively with standard software. Comprehensive, because it expands and integrates classic building automation with the issues of security, telecommunication, facility management and e-commerce and combines the building services across all trade boundaries.”

The RaumComputer applies definitions at the levels of management, automation, field and user interfaces. The communication between the different levels is based on Ethernet TCP/IP and XML/XSL. At the field level, the Beckhoff Bus Terminal system is used, among others, preferably with Ethernet controllers.

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