FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR OPEN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

Smart cities – cities that become more efficient, technologically advanced and greener with the help of information and communication technologies (ICT) – have emerged as a way to solve the most pressing urban challenges and thus enable sustainable urban development. With the study “An overview of urban data platforms – An evaluation according to design principles of DIN SPEC 91357”, scientists from Fraunhofer FOKUS now present an overview of urban data platforms for smart cities.

On July 2, the Joint Science Conference (Gemeinsame Wissenschaftskonferenz – GWK) decided to fund the NFDI for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence proposal (NFDI4DataScience). The consortium is coordinated by the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems.

GovTech Campus Deutschland e.V. was founded on June 25th in Berlin. The aim of the association is to promote cooperation between administration, science and business as well as civil society.

The cooperative project “Stadt-Land-Fluss” (Data- and AI-supported development and strengthening of value chains in the area of regional food systems), SLF for short, is researching the strengthening of the regional food system through the development of digital data platforms for economic and nutritional data with artificial intelligence (AI) methods. The start of the consortium project, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL), was given on 1.6.2021.

The project “ResKriVer - Communication and Information Platform for Resilient, Crisis-Relevant Supply Networks”, funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), started on June 1, 2021. The project aims to develop a digital platform to strengthen the resilience of supply networks with crisis-relevant goods and resources in the event of a crisis or disaster. In addition, the platform intends to improve communication with the population and between crisis teams.

The scientific paper “Infrastructure for data processing in large-scale interconnected sensor networks”, written by Prof. Dr. Karl Aberer (EPFL), Prof. Dr. Manfred Hauswirth (Director Fraunhofer FOKUS and Chair for “Open Distributed Systems” TU Berlin) and Dr. Ali Salehi (EPFL, now Teradata) will be awarded the Test-of-Time Award at the IEEE Mobile Data Management Conference on June 18th.