Sovereign Platform & Innovation Engineering – Projects

In the context of the European Technology Initiative ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking, the project CRYSTAL aims at fostering Europe’s leading edge position in embedded systems engineering, particularly regarding quality and cost effectiveness of safety-critical embedded systems and architecture platforms.

The REMICS project deals with the issues of migration of existing applications to a Cloud environment using MDE technologies. Fraunhofer FOKUS is concerned with the quality assurance in the migration process and the creation of an adequate model-based tool environment.

The ReqMech project intends to develop and deliver a Requirements Engineering Framework that enhances the product development process of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in the field of mechatronics.

The SPRINT project - short for Software Platform for Integration of Engineering and Things - aims at overcoming the challenges presented by today's silo'ed approach, where the actual integration and testing of various components is only possible once a system can be completely assembled.

Within the VARIES project 23 partners from seven European countries work on maximizing the potential of variability in safety critical embedded systems, which underlie additional requirements. Therefore, the VARIES project team will develop an extensible reference platform for the “Variability Management”.

SmartDelta builds automated solutions for quality assessment of product deltas in a continuous engineering environment by providing smart analytics from development artifacts and system execution, offering insights into quality improvements or degradation of different product versions, and providing recommendations for next builds.

Standardized communication protocols and technical specifications do require unique descriptions for testing. Scientists of Fraunhofer FOKUS are part of the Special Task Forces (STFs) and Testing Task Forces (TTFs) of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), whose objective it is to define test specifications using TTCN-3 and to maintain TTCN-3.

The changes in energy policy pose new challenges to the power grid. Thermal power stations, windmills, photovoltaic plants as well as energy accumulators shall all be fed into the power supply system without causing any fluctuations. The control of such decentralized systems is performed using the VHPready standard.

Within the scope of the project IoT an IoT testware is to be developed. The testing and certification of IoT solutions is to be made cost-effective for manufacturers. The focus is on systematic inspection processes and test methods in order to prove the technologies demonstrably and to improve the quality of IoT solutions.

Up to one hundred computers in a car ensure a safe drivability. Automotive manufacturers and suppliers work together in the development of such software systems. The Symphony Project integrates development data from various data sources at BMW into one data model and tests the consistency to ensure the eventual compatibility and necessary software quality of the individual components.