FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR OPEN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

Counterfeit-proof product protection and resilient supply chains are the goals of the Fraunhofer SmartID project. The Fraunhofer Institutes for Applied Polymer Research IAP, for Secure Information Technology SIT and for Open Communication Systems FOKUS are developing a novel marking system that can determine the authenticity of products via smart devices even while being offline, i.e. without access to a database. SmartID will be embedded in existing track & trace infrastructures and can be printed on products or their packaging using commercially available printing processes.

Beginning in August, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research is funding the establishment of four hubs for research into the future technology 6G with up to 250 million euros. Fraunhofer FOKUS will be involved in two of them over the next four years: the “6G Research and Innovation Cluster” (6G-RIC) and the Open6GHub. Drawing on its many years of 4G and 5G core network expertise, the team from the Software-based Networks business unit will design essential components for an organic, distributed 6G core network and integrate them into the emerging test environments.

Smart cities – cities that become more efficient, technologically advanced and greener with the help of information and communication technologies (ICT) – have emerged as a way to solve the most pressing urban challenges and thus enable sustainable urban development. With the study “An overview of urban data platforms – An evaluation according to design principles of DIN SPEC 91357”, scientists from Fraunhofer FOKUS now present an overview of urban data platforms for smart cities.

On July 2, the Joint Science Conference (Gemeinsame Wissenschaftskonferenz – GWK) decided to fund the NFDI for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence proposal (NFDI4DataScience). The consortium is coordinated by the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems.

GovTech Campus Deutschland e.V. was founded on June 25th in Berlin. The aim of the association is to promote cooperation between administration, science and business as well as civil society.

The cooperative project “Stadt-Land-Fluss” (Data- and AI-supported development and strengthening of value chains in the area of regional food systems), SLF for short, is researching the strengthening of the regional food system through the development of digital data platforms for economic and nutritional data with artificial intelligence (AI) methods. The start of the consortium project, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL), was given on 1.6.2021.