Projects and products

Our research and development work happens within the framework of projects - these include equally R&D contracts with industrial customers, publicly funded (collaborative) research projects, and pre-competitive research projects funded by Fraunhofer. You can browse through many of these projects below - as well as products, i.e. results of our R&D activities that have reached a high level of technological maturity.

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  • PCP Wise - water management from outer space

    Innovative approaches to climate resilience

    PCP-WISE is an innovative project developing state-of-the-art solutions (up to TRL 8) for water management and climate resilience in Europe using public procurement (PCP). By leveraging space technology and environmental observation data, PCP-WISE aims to address critical challenges related to floods, fires, and their impacts on infrastructure in rural and urban areas.

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  • DRUM – drone-based support for mass events

    Our technologies for authorities and organizations

    The aim of the DRUM project is to create tools that provide support for drone teams and the operational management of BOS in the security monitoring of mass events. The main task is to automate the evaluation of sensor data and to create a means of transmitting and clearly visualizing the results, enabling the incident command team to quickly and easily assess the situation, identify dangerous situations and locate relevant events.

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  • Laser and nonlinear crystals

    Crystal growing and Processing for efficient laser sources

    The requirements on the optical components, especially on the grown crystals used for the generation and conversion of laser radiation, are in consequence high and the crystals available on the market often do not meet these challenging requirements

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  • High-energy laser weapon technology

    Research, component development & integration studies

    Fraunhofer IOSB is researching new and improved laser components and laser architectures for future high-energy lasers with an emission wavelength >1.4 μm and a reduced hazard range.

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  • AMFIS - Sensor management for complex reconnaissance and monitoring tasks

    AMFIS integration platform for heterogeneous sensors and mobile systems

    Complex reconnaissance and surveillance tasks often cannot be solved with stationary sensors alone or with just one mobile sensor carrier (e.g., a drone). If several mobile systems are used simultaneously in a scenario, conventional individual applications quickly reach their limits.

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  • The aim of the project is to make the operation of drones safer - by connecting U-Space to data sources on relevant hazard information, including monitoring drone statuses, AI-based decision support and communication concepts.

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  • © Fraunhofer IOSB / M. Zentsch

    The deflectometric measurement method uses specular reflection: mirror images of known patterns in the surface and their deformations are observed to automate the quality inspection of painted car body parts, for example.

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  • A holistic optimization of district heating supply areas offers great potential, for example, through the feed-in of renewable energies, network expansion, energy savings and cost reduction, as well as a reduction in CO2 emissions. The aim is to initially make synergies visible by exchanging and combining data/information that has not been exchanged before, and ultimately to generate added value for as many participants as possible.

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