In everyday life, we encounter middleware in many places and often don't even notice it - and that's exactly how it should be. The technology simply works. But there are often many complicated processes and different interfaces behind it that have to be connected to one another. Thomas Klütsch, authorized officer and project manager at schoettler, has therefore given us a tangible practical example of the use of middleware:
"One of our customers, with whom we have been working for many years, produces parking garage systems, both the hardware - such australia telegram screening as barriers and machines - and the software. Last year, the customer found a new cooperation partner, namely a manufacturer of an app for smartphones with which you can find parking garages and book parking spaces directly.
Two different IT systems cannot communicate with each other automatically - middleware acts as a translator and service provider in both directions.
For all of this to work, the app and the parking garage have to communicate somehow, and that's where we come in. We wrote a middleware for our customer that communicates information between the two systems. On the one hand, the app has to be able to show the user the locations of the parking garages and the available parking spaces, for example. On the other hand, the parking garage system has to be able to recognize who has booked a parking space via the app, who is allowed to enter and when they are allowed to leave again. The whole thing doesn't work with tickets, but with license plate recognition via video.