FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR OPEN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

At the end of October, the Bundesnetzagentur published the fees for frequencies in the range from 3.7 GHz to 3.8 GHz for local applications, thus laying the foundation for campus networks, i.e. a company's own network on factory premises. Fraunhofer FOKUS discussed the technical implementation of such private networks with partners from industry and science at the Industrial IoT (IIoT) Forum and the FOKUS FUSECO Forum (FFF) from November 6-8, 2019, and presented various 5G demonstrations for the factory of the future. 

At the 10th FOKUS Fuseco Forum (FFF), the FOKUS researchers will present a field trial with a portable 5G network, which they carried out with partners at the Berlin Festival of Lights. The FFF will take place on November 7th and 8th in Berlin. During these two days, international telecommunications experts from science, business and politics will discuss trends and challenges in the use of 5G. 

Whether Open Data really creates benefits for the economy, population and administration depends strongly on the quality of the data. Only high-quality data that is easy to locate and process can be used efficiently. In order to simplify this task for data publishing organizations, Fraunhofer FOKUS created a guideline for the provision of data and metadata.

Digital administration services should be simple, intuitive and usable for as many people as possible. For this to succeed, they need to be designed in a more user-centered way. The “Competence Center Public IT” (ÖFIT) at Fraunhofer FOKUS, together with the Public Service Lab, has compiled a guideline for user-friendly digital administration services.

The latest publication “Recht Digital – Maschinenverständlich und automatisierbar” (“Law Digital – Automatable and readable by machines ”) by the “Competence Center Public IT” (ÖFIT) at Fraunhofer FOKUS deals with the question of how laws must be designed and how the legislative process can be adapted to facilitate (partial) automation of the application of law.

On the 20th of September at the Global Climate Strike 2019 adults in about 500 German cities will demonstrate along with the younger population for effective measures to secure a sustainable future. As an institute of digitalization, Fraunhofer FOKUS is looking to the future and contemplating the question: how can sustainability goals become the success criteria of digitization?

On 19 September, the 3.6-kilometer test track between Ernst-Reuter-Platz and Brandenburger Tor was opened after 29 months of preparation. Fraunhofer FOKUS, in cooperation with DCAITI of TU Berlin, offered test drives in automated cars and demonstrated the advantages of vehicle-to-x communication, such as warnings of hazards at construction sites and cyclists.

The International Robotics World Championship “RoboCup 2019” took place in Sydney from the 2nd to 8th of July this year. Under the direction of the FOKUS researcher Prof. Dr. Holger Schlingloff from our “System Quality Center“ (SQC) business unit, the junior team “.exe” was able to snag the third place in the “Rescue Simulation” discipline.