Although severe precipitation events are rare, they can overload urban wastewater systems and thus become a challenge for environmental protection. Moreover, due to climate change, such events are expected to occur more frequently. The OPTIMA project is thus developing a prototype of an »Intelligent Pumping Station« to improve the management of sewage and stormwater drainage in Berlin and beyond.

The joint project ActiVAtE (“Activity Tracking Data to Understand Volition, Attrition and Engagement towards Healthy Behaviors in Diabetic Patients and Controls”) aims to collect data on the physical activity of people with and without diabetes using wearables such as Smartwatches. In cooperation with several project partners, FOKUS will evaluate the collected data which will then be made available for further interdisciplinary purposes.

The aim of WindNODE is to establish a model region for intelligent electric energy in Northeastern Germany. The digitization of the increasingly decentralized energy system with the development of ICT services as well as the development of an Open Data portal are main subjects of the project.

The aim of FLEXCoop is to introduce a fully automated demand response framework and a tool environment for private electricity generators and consumers.

SEE.4C will define a set of analytics tasks (the principal task being forecasting electricity grid traffic) and design a specially tailored competition (more specifically, a coopetition). Participants and teams will submit algorithms to be evaluated on an special cloud-based computational environment. 

Fraunhofer FOKUS supports the Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (Zentrum für Marine Umweltwissenschaften MARUM) at the Universität Bremen with the development of a telepresence system for the ship’s control container. It consists of an upright dome projection with a horizontal and vertical angle of 180°.

OR.net is the BMBF-funded research project that aims to increase the medical devices and medical IT systems interconnections in the operation theaters and hospitals while maintaining or even improving their reliability and security. To this end, the project proposes the replacement of the proprietary interfaces and protocols with open standardized ones. Viscom is involved in the architectural design, real-time domain and performance testing, and in the creation of the adapters for the proprietary medical interfaces.

The production of high quality motion pictures, especially in 3D, is an intricate and costly undertaking. For this reason, four Fraunhofer institutes, which constitute the Fraunhofer Alliance Digital Cinema, cooperate in the project SpatialAV to develop solutions that allow for the generation of high quality 3D content while at the same time keeping technical production costs low.

In the ESWT (Extra-Corporal Shock Wave Therapy) project, VISCOM collaborating with a broad range of other Fraunhofer institutes (MEVIS, EMI, ITWM and SCAI) on the development of new technologies to make focused ultrasound therapy safer and more gentle. VISCOM’s role in the project is to develop software that can calibrate organ movements caused by breathing.

The MUSE project (Multi-core Architecture for Sensor-based Position Tracking in Space) seeks to improve the positioning of spacecraft. In the project VISCOM is developing an optical position sensor which could be combined with other sensors (e.g. radar or laser-based distance measurement, LIDAR) in a spacecraft.

Modern endoscopes offer the surgeon a limited viewing angle of typically 70 degrees. As a result, doctors can only observe a small segment of their operative area. A panoramic view corresponding to the natural human visual field is missing. An endoscope with a 360-degree view is thus currently being developed in the Endoguide project. With the new endoscope, the surgeon can initially perform an automatic scan function that provides a panoramic view.

VISCOM has developed a new solution for digital dome projection in close cooperation with Carl Zeiss. It allows digital images and videos to be displayed on a concave hemisphere using standard projectors and commercially available PCs – without loss of quality even in the case of high-resolution images.