FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR OPEN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

Fraunhofer FOKUS unveiled the “Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) + OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA)” testbed together with Huawei and 18 other partners. It provides unified real-time Ethernet for manufacturing and control applications that require low latency and adherence to timely reliable communication sequences. 

At the anniversary conference of Fraunhofer FOKUS in Berlin, in addition to previous successes in applied research on digital networking, particular attention was paid to the current challenges in digital transformation in order to continue to actively shape them. About 200 guests from business, science and politics discussed this topic at the conference.

The founding members, China Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, Digital Domain, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Huawei, CEPRI of SGCC, Tencent, TIM and Volkswagen AG announce the inauguration of the “5G Slicing Association”. The association will address requirements from vertical industry and the potential application scenarios of 5G network slicing on the way to defining new business models.

The FOKUS Institute Directors Prof. Dr. Manfred Hauswirth and Prof. Dr. Ina Schieferdecker gave talks on connected mobility and test solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT) at Bosch Connected World on February 21 and 22, 2018. The conference for IoT trends and implementations took place in STATION Berlin and was attended by about 140 speakers and 3500 guests.

The new “DIN SPEC 91357 – Reference Architecture Model Open Urban Platform (OUP)” has been released by DIN (Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V.). Based on the final voting, the reference architecture, wich was co-designed by Fraunhofer FOKUS, becomes an established guideline for the development of integrated Smart City solutions. DIN SPEC 91357 is now available in English and can be purchased.

On 22nd November, the German chamber of commerce in Austria invited participants to the Berlin-Vienna Urban Development Forum held in Vienna. Speakers from the German capital included the Governing Mayor of Berlin Mr. Michael Müller as well as Dr. Ilja Radusch, director of the business unit Smart Mobility at Fraunhofer FOKUS.

On the occasion of the #Berlin5GWeek, Fraunhofer FOKUS has released a high-performance IoT (Internet of Things)-communication platform as open source software that can be used for the connected factory. The OpenMTC platform is a prototype implementation of a middleware which provides a standard-compliant platform for IoT services.

The research group "Internet of Things" from Fraunhofer FOKUS, managed by Dr. Florian Schreiner and Dr. Alexander Willner, together with the start-up company Assistr was awarded with a cooperation budget of 10,000 € as one of five winning teams of the TandemCamp II.