Embers: Internet-of-Things-Platform for mobility services

News from Mon., July 11, 2016

On the 5th of July 2016, at the "Mobility and Transport Meetup" of the European research project Embers, scientists and entrepreneurs of startups discussed technical and economic premises for successful mobility services. For this, Embers offers an IoT-Platform which the researchers of the business unit NGNI will accompany up to marketability.

Award for paper on Smart Learning Recommender

News from Thu., June 02, 2016

Two papers of our business unit “Future Applications and Media – FAME” on Smart Learning Recommender (SLR) were awarded and nominated at different conferences in April and May 2016. SLR extends traditional Learning Management Systems with the time value in order to respect the changing knowledge level in a continuous time interval.

"Rock am Ring" cautions attendees with KATWARN

News from Wed., May 25, 2016

At the music festival „Rock am Ring“ to be held from the 3rd to the 5th of June this year in Mendig, around 90,000 guests are expected. Commencing this year, in order to be better protected in the event of storms or other disturbances to security a special application of the alerting system KATWARN is at your disposal free of cost.

OpenBaton Release 2: Increasing flexibility in Network Function Virtualization Management and Orchestration 

News from Wed., May 18, 2016

The researchers of the business unit “Software-based Networks” extended their open-source ETSI NFV Management and Orchestration (MANO) compliant platform with additional components and communication mechanisms. 

EUREKA Innovation Award for ITEA research project DIAMONDS

News from Thu., April 28, 2016

Yury Glikman reelected as president of the OW2-Consortium

News from Fri., April 01, 2016

Dr. Yury Glikman, head of the working group Open Service Engineering, at Fraunhofer FOKUS, was reelected as president of the OW2-Consortium on the 23rd of March 2016 in Paris. With more than 2000 members OW2 belongs to the most important Open Source communities worldwide.

Supporting large-scale events in the smart city

News from Mon., March 21, 2016

As part of the South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conferences and Festivals, that took place between the 11th and 20th of March 2016 in Austin/Texas, Prof. Ina Schieferdecker (Director of the institute Fraunhofer FOKUS) and Dr. Stephan Steglich (Director of the Business Unit FAME)  gave a lecture on »Without Borders: Social TV-App Supports Mega Events«. The lecture was held in the »German Haus«.

Cooperation with Deutsche Telekom: "Immmr" will compete with WhatsApp

News from Fri., March 04, 2016

From February 22 to 25, 2016, Deutsche Telekom presented a new communication app at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. The technical basis for the app was developed by Telekom Innovation Laboratories in cooperation with Fraunhofer FOKUS.