diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 18551ca6ac6..18e3a399048 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -231,4 +231,7 @@ io.openems.edge.controller.api.mqtt/edge0
 io.openems.edge.application/c:/
 
 ### Debian ###
-!tools/debian/**
\ No newline at end of file
+!tools/debian/**
+
+# Exclude config.d files which are generated by executing the start scripts
+/config.d/
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/scripts/start-edge.sh b/scripts/start-edge.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..8313a70f76c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/start-edge.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#!/usr/bin/zsh
+
+echo "Starting OpenEMS Edge"
+
+SCRIPTS_DIR="$( cd "$(dirname "$0")" ; pwd -P )"
+WORK_DIR="$(dirname "$SCRIPTS_DIR")"
+BUILD_DIR="$WORK_DIR/build"
+PATH_TO_OPENEMS_EDGE_JAR="$BUILD_DIR/openems-edge.jar"
+FELIX_CM_DIR="$WORK_DIR/config.d"
+
+# check if openems-edge.jar exists
+if [ ! -f "$PATH_TO_OPENEMS_EDGE_JAR" ]; then
+    echo "openems-edge.jar not found. Please run './gradlew buildEdge' first." >&2
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# check if Java 17 is active
+if [[ $(java -version 2>&1) != *"17"* ]]; then
+    echo "Java 17 is not active. Please run 'sdk use java 17'" >&2
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+
+java -agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,address=5005,server=y,suspend=n -XX:+ExitOnOutOfMemoryError -Dfelix.cm.dir="$FELIX_CM_DIR" -Djava.util.concurrent.ForkJoinPool.common.parallelism=100 -jar "$PATH_TO_OPENEMS_EDGE_JAR"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/scripts/start-ui.sh b/scripts/start-ui.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..170845bd18d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/start-ui.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+#!/usr/bin/zsh
+
+echo "Starting OpenEMS UI"
+
+SCRIPTS_DIR="$( cd "$(dirname "$0")" ; pwd -P )"
+WORK_DIR="$(dirname "$SCRIPTS_DIR")"
+
+cd "$WORK_DIR/ui"
+
+# check if @angular/cli is installed globally
+if ! command -v ng &> /dev/null
+then
+    echo "@angular/cli is not installed globally. Please run 'npm install -g @angular/cli'" >&2
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+npm install
+#Run OpenEMS UI
+ng serve -c openems-edge-dev