FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR OPEN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

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.

Counterfeits of high-quality products such as medicines, cosmetics, watches, or food and beverages circulate in large numbers, especially in online retail. Consumers barely have a chance to verify the authenticity of a product. In the SmartID project, scientists at Fraunhofer are now developing a counterfeit-proof barcode system for authenticity verification simply by using a smartphone without accessing a database. The team is presenting a SmartID demonstrator for the first time at the Interpack 2023 trade fair for packaging in Düsseldorf.

The SVT4GS23 workshop will be hosted and organized as part of the 48th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) 2023. As part of a call for papers, contributions from industry and research can be submitted until May 31, 2023.