CECED Home Appliances Interoperating Network
The CECED as the European Committee of Domestic Equipment Manufacturers has, with CHAIN ( CECED Home Appliances Interoperating Network brought) a standard for communication of electrical household appliances on the way the new standard in home automation or " intelligent living is to set".
Numerous companies from the white goods, heating, plumbing, ventilation and building technology industries have come together in the Konnex association. It was agreed on the KNX standard as a further basis, which should combine the best approaches from the previous standards BatiBus , European Home Systems (EHS) and European Installation Bus (EIB).
In the case of CHAIN abstraction, the individual standards EHS and Konnex are used on the protocol and hardware side. On this basis, CHAIN describes a manufacturer-independent protocol for the exchange of data and control commands for networked household appliances.
The communication within the home, either on power lines ( Power Line manufactured) or wireless connections via KNX RF (868 MHz). In both cases, neither the laying of new cables nor specialist knowledge for configuration are necessary ( plug-and-play ).
CHAIN defines a protocol for data exchange between a service gateway and networked individual devices such as refrigerators and freezers, washing machines, dryers, dishwashers and ovens. This enables the control and monitoring of key functions. B. the remote control of devices, the remote diagnosis of errors, automatic maintenance, energy and load management or simply uploading new program versions.
Standards and bodies
See also
- OSGi - Middleware standard (Java framework) for the integration of CHAIN in service gateways