Certification as a Service

Abstract

The development of industry 4.0 and smart energy IT-Components relies on highly standardized communication protocols to reach vendor-independent interoperability. In innovative and fast-changing environments, the support of standard protocols increases the time to market significantly. In the energy domain, the business models and the regulatory frameworks will be updated more often than the protocols. Thus agile development and supporting standardized protocols at the same time seems to be an issue. Here we will present a new proposal for standardization and certification processes as well as an architecture for a certification platform. Both will improve the support of agile development in the industry and energy domain.

Implementation of a Microservice-Based Certification Platform

“…However, standardization and certification processes are classically very time-consuming tasks and therefore not compatible with agile development processes. In our last work [1] we proposed a new standardization and certification approach that can be integrated into agile development workflow for edge devices as well as for backend systems.…”

“…To support certification bodies and to provide certification services, we developed a certification platform. The platform is implemented based on our proposed microservice architecture in [1]. We implemented five backend services in NestJS and a frontend service in Angular.…”

“…The user management is realized with Keycloak. As mentioned in [1] the certification platform takes a software artifact during the test phase of a build process and performs compliance tests of a standard.…”