Within the project about a service hotline for administrations, funded by the ISPRAT Institute (Interdisciplinary Studies on Politics, Law, Administration, and Technology), exemplary scenarios for administrational processes, showing potential applications for this hotline, are being developed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS. The developments origin in the concept of the American service hotline 311, realized by means of a call center.

The share it! project developed an end-to-end system that enables easy access to and transfer of personal content between local storage devices using home-to-home (h2h) networks and that enables innovative services through a seamless combination of on-line, broadcast, and stored content.

In Reinickendorf, Berlin, automated vehicles and new communication technologies are used to test and further develop safety and comfort in digital urban traffic.

sim-EDEN develops a unified framework in the form of a simulation-based environmental disaster prediction system applying cyber-physical systems. The project follows an interdisciplinary approach to contribute to the environmental resources management, environmental disaster prediction, and their analysis.

With the help of Car-to-X Communication infrastructure, individual vehicles and a lot of further stakeholders have access to new, high resolution information in real time. Using this information, a broad spectrum of applications, especially for traffic safety and efficiency applications will be developed in simTD.

Large scale cooperative ITS assessment on the road

The “Smart Learning” project is part of the funding line “Digital Media in professional education” of the BMBF. Four project partners developed a media didactic concept for a further training for building energy consultant under the title “Smart Learning – Media use in craft training”. The concept is performed with the help of digital enriched learning objects as well as an innovative learning guide in the form of a web application. 

The successor project “Smart Learning – Use of media in online training” ties to the concept of an interoperable infrastructure for the demand-driven presentation of digital media used for training. The project introduces the concept of online courses as a supplement to classroom training or blended learning courses in a mobile web app, the learning guide. In this course, a special focus lies on the necessary didactical and technical development, evaluation and optimization of content and components. The testing takes place with the involvement of several education institutions, which profit of the synergy effects of a joint learning infrastructure.

Smart City Services - Contextualisation - Live information - Live sharing & communication - Citizen's participation (Fix my City) - Open Data Social connected TV - Multi-screen interaction - Personalised TV experience - User tracking and privacy

In the Smart Wearables project, Fraunhofer FOKUS is developing prototypes of smart wearable devices and M2M application for precisely locating objects and people. The researchers are using the latest technology to guarantee reliable indoor and outdoor tracking while ensuring maximum user-friendliness and intuitive operation.

No product is safe from counterfeiters, whether it's sneakers, chainsaws, medicines, or FFP2 masks. At the same time, consumers hardly have a chance to detect such pirated products. Especially in medical products and pharmaceuticals, there is also a considerable health risk from counterfeit products. Therefore, the Smart ID project is developing a novel labeling system that can be used to verify the authenticity of products.

The goal of the SmartOrchestra project is to develop an open and standard-based service platform that enables the openness and utilization of public and business-related services.