FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR OPEN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

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.

Fraunhofer FOKUS has been researching the topic of environmentally friendly mobility in the city for years and is now participating in the joint project “LamA - Laden am Arbeitsplatz” (“LamA - Charging at the Workplace”), which aims to significantly expand the charging infrastructure for electric vehicles in communities with particularly high nitrogen oxide values, including Berlin. The researchers will also be demonstrating how connected-automated electric mobility can be achieved on 5 and 6 December during the closing event of the project “iKoPA - integrated cooperation platform for automated electric vehicles”.

State Secretary Christian Rickerts opened the yearly meet-up between public administration and the open data community at the Berlin Open Data Day (BODDy) 2018. In cooperation between the Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises, Fraunhofer FOKUS, and the Competence Center Public IT, this year’s BODDy took place on October 11, 2018.