Standard VDI 3812 "Automation functions for residential buildings"

In the three sheets of the standard VDI 3813, extensive planning bases have already been developed in the last few years for space automation (special purpose building). The result was a semantic construction kit from which approx. 8,000 different, frequently occurring room types can be put together. For this purpose, a formal description means (linking of function blocks) has been used, which on the one hand is known to all practitioners and on the other has a high degree of unambiguousness. Building owners' wishes and resulting planner guidelines can be documented as clearly as the offers in the form of hardware and software products. Thus, the VDI 3813 already covers approx. 60% of the functionality customary in SmartHome in high description quality and it is obvious to add the remaining 40% of the same quality.


In the new VDI 3812 workgroup, product manufacturers, building suppliers, operators and service providers are now working on this missing 40% according to the methodology proven by VDI 3813. Among the many aspects of the broad terms "Smart-Home" and "AAL (Ambient Assisted Living)", the main focus will be on functions that are closely connected with the building or the house technology. The object is, for example, apartment-type smoke and fire alarm technology, closing and door communication technology, burglar alarm and consumption meter. But also all the increasingly important functions of the elderly and care assistants, such as detection of vital functions, dangers (fall, helplessness), household misconduct, as well as the assistance to be provided by the dwelling as guidance for dementia, alarm escalation chains, emergency shutdown of technology, access for rescue workers Etc. should be described as precisely as described in VDI 3813. They are thus made comprehensible for computers and accessible to a knowledge-based, automated planning (digitalization, building information modeling BIM).


The work is to be based on the already existing version of the VDI 3812 "Assistance functions for the housing - demand determination for electrical installation and building automation" (white printing in March 2010), in which many assistance functions for the accessibility, operating comfort, safety and Resource saving in a verbal or tabular form as a planning basis. A synchronization with the parallel work on the VDI 3814 is also carried out. Methodology to the primary and distribution systems in the purpose construction. More detailed information can be obtained from VDI or the spokesman of the working group (Klaus.Kabitzsch@tu-dresen.de).