Silicon Saxony Activities

Dresden, 24.06.2013
Dresden is on its way to becoming a "Smart City". The most significant location for micro- and nanoelectronics scrutinizes smart technologies for the city of future. Here, the Free State of Saxony and the trade association particularly envision smart infrastructure solutions – the "Internet of matters and services" means a vision for our daily life to come: by means of sensors and smart electronics, traffic flow is registered and optimized automatically; information flow is prepared and channeled. According to Heinz Martin Esser, head of Silicon Saxony e.V.: "It is all about intermedial communication. Whereas cyber-physical systems form the technological basis, we in Silicon Saxony contribute with highly innovative micro- and nanoelectronics and software."

Cross linking for smart infrastructure solutions in the Free State
In the future, cities and metropolitan regions will be dependent on smart solutions for a cross-linked infrastructure to a great deal. Advancing urbanization, demographic change and climatic changes call for rethinking and trigger the development of novel systems enabling stable nets and a smooth integration of renewable energies. With regard to Markus Ulbig, Saxon Minister of Internal Affairs: "We are aiming at maintaining our high living standard in Saxony". According to him, Smart City technologies represent a key factor there for a topical urban development. Furthermore, a symbiosis of Open Data, networked IT and smart controlling in the future cities saves energy, is easy on the climate and makes our lives much safer. Moreover, Ulbig emphasizes the importance of smart technologies being safe with respect to cyber attacks. "Smart Cities and cyber security are just two sides of the same coin. The Free State of Saxony cannot act on its own." As the Saxon Minister of Affairs continues: "We need Silicon Saxony as a stable and reliable partner of ours for a smart and safe urban development of tomorrow."

Work group "cyber-physical systems" as a competence center at Silicon Saxony e.V.
At the end of 2012 experts from various Saxon companies and research institutes founded the work group "cyber-physical systems". Amounting to 25 members now, this work group has created a competence center for state-of-the-art technologies which will be determining the future market. Being a primary step on the way to the "Internet of matters and services", cyber-physical systems control physical processes from a cloud, acquire sensor data with the result of being able to control as well as optimize flow of information, energy, material, goods and human resources. According to Uwe Gäbler, head of the work group "cyber-physical systems" at Silicon Saxony e.V.: "Thus, industrial processes might be automated efficiently – up to their self-regulating optimization."

Saxony to deliver key and cross-sectional technology for Smart Cities
As Dr. Wolfgang Sinn, second head of the Silicon Saxony work group "cyber-physical systems" and head of business development at the Institut für Miroelektronik- und Mechatronik Systeme