FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR OPEN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

On the 4th of June the Governing Mayor of Berlin Michael Müller, the Berlin Senate and Berlin Partner yet again invited to the annual traditional ”Hoffest” at the Red City Hall. Fraunhofer FOKUS, along with Berlin leuchtet e.V. participated in the festivities and offered its guests an extraordinary 360° film experience.

Direct communication between vehicle and vehicle, as well as vehicle and the road, can contribute to avoid traffic jams and accidents in the near future and increase safety for all road users. With various live demonstrations, the 5G Automotive Association (5GAA) demonstrated its vision for intelligent and safe mobility today in Berlin based on the C-V2X technology (Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything).

The inaugural meeting of the working group openMobility took place today in Berlin-Adlershof. Apart from Fraunhofer FOKUS the first members include the German Aerospace Center, Bosch and Vector Informatik. The aim is to develop an open framework for the simulation of mobility scenarios and applications for research and industry.

This Sunday, viewers of the German music variety show “ZDF-Fernsehgarten” were able to experience the program as a 360° livestream through the HbbTV on-demand service of public broadcaster ZDF. This complementary experience was provided by using the Fraunhofer FOKUS “Cloud-based 360° Video Playout” technology. The unique and patented solution enables the viewing of high quality 360° videos on nearly any device. 

The paper “Testing Embedded Real Time Systems with TTCN-3” by FOKUS scientist Dr. Jürgen Großmann, Director of Fraunhofer FOKUS Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ina Schieferdecker and Dr. Diana Serbanescu (Weizenbaum Institute) has been awarded the “Most Influential Paper Award” in the category practical impact at the 12th IEEE International Conference in Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST). 

The German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) today submits its report titled “Towards our Common Digital Future” to Federal Minister of Education and Research Anja Karliczek and Federal Environment Minister Svenja Schulze. The Council pleads for a consistent orientation of digital change towards sustainability. 

DECHEMA e.V., Fraunhofer FOKUS and six other partners collaborate on the joint project “DynaWater 4.0” which aims to maximise the scientific, technical and economic potential of digitizing industrial water management.

In industries that rely on robust and secure low-latency communication, centralized clouds will soon be a thing of the past: Edge Computing promises to bring data processing closer to the source. During today’s “Edge Computing Forum”, Fraunhofer FOKUS and industry partners announced that they are planning to found the “Edge Computing Consortium Europe” in the coming year, to get the technology concept ready for the market more quickly.