Labs and Testbeds

The joint “Open 5G Campus Network for the Software-defined Factory” in Berlin located at Fraunhofer FOKUS and IPK is an open environment for testing the end to end performance of integrated 5G standalone components from different vendors within specific customer use cases for the automation industry.

Whether it is the electronic transfer of health records or the proactive care of emergency patients, the eHealth Interoperability Lab offers the state-of-the-art development and test environment for all relevant applications in the healthcare sector.

In future, cities will change enormously due to a growing population, more traffic, increasing pollution, and other challenges. In various projects across our business units, the Smart Cities Lab is working on solutions to improve the future citizen's daily life.

The Blockchain Workshop bundles the activities of the DPS and SQC business units of Fraunhofer FOKUS around blockchain and distributed ledger technologies. The Blockchain Workshop focuses on digital administration, the energy sector, open data, open science, quality assurance, identity management and the Internet of Things.

The CertLab supports the certification of IT products on behalf of the Federal Office for Security in Information Technology (BSI). The “CC certification procedures” guarantee that software and hardware products that are newly placed on the market are safe and trustworthy.

The Open User Lab supports public administration and the judiciary in digitalisation projects with methodological competence and scientific expertise in the areas of user-centred design, user experience and digital accessibility. In addition, the Open User Lab supports the transformation of the state and administration in organisational development projects with lab concepts and e-learning formats.

The FAME 5G Media Testbed (F5GMT) enables the development, testing, evaluation and demonstrations of Media Applications and Services operated within a 5G and in the future in 6G environments.

The Conformance and Interoperability Test Lab is a laboratory for the development and execution of tests in wireless and wired environments.

The safety lab at Fraunhofer FOKUS is a demonstration room and research laboratory and shows networked solutions in the field of public safety that put people at the center. In various realistic scenarios, it shows processes and technical interrelationships in control centers and monitoring centers and how they can be connected to alerting technologies for the population.

The 5G+ Nomadic Node consists of robust, transportable server rack containers with the hardware and software needed to set up a 5G campus network in just a few minutes. The software-based core network Open5GCore guarantees a highly flexible network in “standalone” operation tailored to the application.