FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR OPEN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

How can cities and municipal enterprises use urban data efficiently, transparently and profitably? With the "Daten-Kompetenzzentrum für Städte und Regionen DKSR” (Data Competence Center for Cities and Regions), a project of the Fraunhofer Morgenstadt Initiative has been accompanied to spin-off at the beginning of the year. DKSR uses an open-source approach to help municipalities find municipal data, retrieve it in a structured way and share it securely.

The business unit Smart Mobility demonstrates how the open-source simulation environment Eclipse MOSAIC can be used to test and further develop Remote-Operated Driving (ROD).

Berlin's youth welfare service has made the switch to digital administration. The introduction of the new IT procedure for youth welfare has now been completed successfully and on schedule. It has been in use throughout the state as part of the ISBJ “Integrierte Software Berliner Jugendhilfe ” (Integrated Software Berlin Youth Welfare) since January 1, 2021. More than 3,000 administrative staff and social workers in Berlin's youth welfare offices and the Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family Affairs use it to provide services worth several hundred million euros a year for tens of thousands of children.

Today, the Publications Office of the European Union has awarded a six-year framework contract to a consortium made up of eleven partners to develop a new service: Data.Europa.EU. It will combine the two European data portals, and their efforts towards facilitating open data publication and re-use in Europe. The new portal Data.Europa.EU will be based on the technological data solutions from Fraunhofer FOKUS.

The first supervisory board meeting of DigitalService4Germany GmbH is taking place today. The head of the Competence Center Public IT (ÖFIT), Prof. Dr. Peter Parycek, was appointed as a member of the  board and will support the work of the federally owned corporation in the future.

Initiated and supported by the European Space Agency (ESA), Fraunhofer FOKUS and partners have developed in the SATis5 project a 5G test environment that brings together satellite and terrestrial communication technologies. The project team has evaluated various use cases in a real over-the-air test environment, proving this technology convergence. In the whitepaper “Satellite is 5G”, satellite technology's advantages in a 5G network are presented in detail.