FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR OPEN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

At its first annual conference, Fraunhofer SIRIOS presents itself as a technology and innovation platform for public safety. In the event center of Fraunhofer FOKUS in Berlin, transformed into a demo lab, around 140 guests, representatives from politics, security authorities, industry, associations, and research came together on October 19 to discuss the first results of Fraunhofer SIRIOS.

Prof. Dr. Sonja Schimmler took on a visiting professorship at the Technische Universität Berlin on October 1, 2023. In the coming years, she will set up and lead the “Research Data Infrastructure” department at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. At the same time, she will continue to work as a research group lead in the Digital Public Services business unit at Fraunhofer FOKUS.

At the airfield in Schönhagen, ALADIN partners today demonstrated how a temporary local 5G network can improve forest firefighting. In various field tests, an overall solution was integrated so that emergency forces can now be networked, firefighting robots and drones can be controlled, and situational images can be transmitted to the operations center in real-time.

How can autonomous driving be made more reliable? Yesterday, the “KI-FLEX” project presented its research results. The initiative was built around a high-performance, energy-efficient, and yet flexible hardware platform with the corresponding software framework, which uses AI technology to process and fuse data from various sensors. This allows vehicles to perceive and localize environmental stimuli in a manner that is fast, efficient, and reliable. 

Fraunhofer FOKUS has been organizing the FOKUS Media Web Symposium (MWS) since 2010. For its tenth anniversary, over 200 participants from 21 countries met in Berlin on the 13th and 14th of June, 2023. With its tutorials and workshop, the MWS once again offered the opportunity for deeper insights into Internet-based media.

With the increasing demand for quantum computing, there is a growing need for programmers to have access to powerful and user-friendly tools for programming quantum systems. For this purpose, scientists at the Quality Engineering business unit at Fraunhofer FOKUS designed and released Qrisp, a high-level programming framework that makes it easy for developers to write efficient and scalable quantum algorithms.