Synergy workshop 2025 – Joint roadmap and revitalization of the SmartLivingNEXT ecosystem through data assets
21. July 2025
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The accompanying research for the SmartLivingNEXT technology program of the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space held the second synergy workshop for the application projects (BIM-4-CARE, COMET, DuITeasy, ExpliCareNEXT, FAME4ME, GAiST) and the use cases of the ForeSightNEXT flagship project on 25 June 2025.
The first part of the workshop addressed the question of which common challenges the projects are currently facing and which cross-sectionally relevant topics and requirements can be derived from this. In addition to catalogs with overviews of the data sets, service modules, best practices and business models available in the ecosystem, the main needs were formulated with regard to ecosystem-wide standards, e.g. for safety, effectiveness and quality certificates.
The revitalization of the ecosystem through data assets was the focus of the second part of the workshop. As part of a data asset exchange, existing and any desired data assets were recorded in a structured manner, presented and jointly evaluated in terms of their attractiveness and value creation potential. Two key challenges were discussed in the context of the evaluation. While reference prices can potentially be used for value estimation and pricing in application areas such as energy, there are other areas for which this does not apply. One example of this is highly sensitive data that is particularly worthy of protection, which is common in the care sector. Furthermore, no practice or process model has yet been established for pricing data assets from the smart living sector.
The accompanying research is looking forward to addressing the identified challenges and needs in the coming year together with the projects and other program participants in order to develop timely solution strategies!
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Editorial office:
Anita
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SmartLivingNEXT
Central documents for SmartLivingNEXT
The white paper contains the guideline and reference framework for the future technical development of the SmartLivingNEXT Dataspace and the desired governance structure. It was created with the collaboration of teams from German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), the Research Association for Electrical Engineering at ZVEI e.V., Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) and Materna Information & Communications SE. You can have the white paper sent to you as a PDF. Please contact our project office at projektbuero@smartlivingnext.de.
The document is intended as a structuring investor perspective and orientation framework, not as a final business plan, and analyzes the possible roles of potential investors. It was written in collaboration with Michael Schidlack, Research Association for Electrical Engineering at ZVEI e.V., Dr. Rahild Neuburger, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) and Lars Thomsen, future matters AG. You can have the document sent to you as a PDF. Please contact our project office at projektbuero@smartlivingnext.de.
Das Dokument erläutert im ersten Teil (Governance & Organisation) SmartLivingNEXT als föderiertes Datenökosystem und beschreibt die Rollen, Verantwortlichkeiten und Entscheidungslogiken. Der zweite Teil (technische Architektur & Datenraum) beschreibt, wie diese Governance technisch umgesetzt wird. Es entstand unter Mitwirkung von Michael Schidlack, Forschungsvereinigung Elektrotechnik beim ZVEI e.V., Dr. Rahild Neuburger, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) und Fanni Vespermann, Materna Information & Communications SE. Sie können sich das Dokument als PDF zusenden lassen. Please contact our project office at projektbuero@smartlivingnext.de.
