ONE TOOL. ALL YOU NEED: KNX community welcomes the future of home and building automation with ETS6!

BRUSSELS, SEPTEMBER 20, 2021 – Even smarter, more secure and more open: ETS6, the new version of the popular professional KNX tool for automating smart homes and buildings, will be available on September 28. That is when the next generation of the “Engineering Tool Software” (ETS) for smart home and construction projects based on KNX will be officially launched on the market. For more information, flyers, videos, webinars about the new ETS6 tool, visit www.ets6.org.

A full range of building automation functions in one tool
The product and manufacturer-independent ETS combines all important functions for planning, configuring, commissioning and controlling smart buildings in one tool and supports the integration of more than 8,000 smart home and building products from more than 500 manufacturers. With this unique selling point and the important consideration that older KNX devices can also be connected easily and securely thanks to 30 years of backward compatibility, the KNX tool has become the first choice for smart home and smart building projects all over the world in recent decades. world. KNX is now continuing this success story with the sixth version of ETS. ETS6 will make access to the KNX world even easier for new users. And for experienced users, the numerous new features ensure that the switch to ETS6 quickly pays for itself.

ETS6 brings next level security to the market
With ETS6, new security functions such as KNX Secure Proxy enter the KNX universe. The innovative link extension ensures smooth communication between devices with and without activated security functions in a smart building system. From now on, these can be operated side by side in a KNX installation without affecting the security of newly added devices. This makes retrofitting security features and adding new devices easier than ever. Finally, ETS6 also includes an improved KNX RF Multi that supports the new generation of KNX RF devices and offers several advantages such as mandatory security support and easy configuration: ETS automatically sets all frequency settings and all runtime capabilities resulting from a product entry made with the Manufacturer Tool.

ETS6 redefines “smart”
Working with ETS has never been so smart. Improved window and panel controls allow ETS6 to run in multiple windows. This makes it easier to check and compare data from one or more projects. Another clever highlight of ETS6 is the flexible handling of tabs: new ETS6 instances can be created very simply with drag and drop by dragging tabs from their existing instances. An adaptive dashboard, an improved project archive, browser-like navigation, optimized dialogs and automatic updates provide further simplifications. The overall improved user experience is based directly on user feedback, as is the new licensing model that comes with ETS6. Users of the KNX software can now choose between dongle licenses and cloud-based licenses.

ETS6 is ready for IoT!
For its users, ETS6 will open the doors to the almost borderless world of the Internet of Things (IoT). With the option to export all relevant semantic data to the KNX IoT 3rd Party API, KNX systems will become even more interoperable with any external client. This means that even other systems that are not directly compatible with KNX can be seamlessly integrated into existing KNX projects. ETS6 thus becomes the central tool for orchestrating all IoT devices in smart buildings.

More information about ETS6 can be found at www.ets6.org