The development of digital innovations and new, data-driven business models and processes is one aspect of this field of focus. Intelligent digital systems, IT, and connectivity often form the critical foundation for innovative products and services designed to address pressing future challenges. They are applied across all disciplines and enable their further development. Digital technologies are based on intelligent data collection and management, as well as on the development and use of artificial intelligence.
This is also linked to the aspect of system security, particularly IT security. Furthermore, this profile area encompasses the development and integration of highly automated, autonomous, and collaborative systems in industrial settings.
Digital technologies also support the other profile areas at THU, as medical technology, automated driving, or smart power grids would not be possible without these technologies. However, they constitute an independent profile area at THU, as the development of and education in digital technologies represent a fundamental task in our technologically advanced world.