Projects and products

In any operation conducted by emergency services such as firefighters, police, or rescue services, the first steps are situation reconnaissance and risk assessment. Drones that transmit live video to the ground control station, can offer a great advantage, especially in complex incidents that are spread over large areas.

The internally funded project is aimed at developing a software-based system for defining dynamic safety zones. This should make it possible to fulfill functional safety requirements in modular, dynamically changing production environments in a way that saves time and money.

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.

In SALSA, research is focused on vehicle interiors for cars and trucks. These should be adaptable to a wide range of driving situations, including allowing relaxed sleeping, but also safe takeover of the driving task and intuitive use of driver assistance and automated driving functions.

Until now, only a small proportion of plastic is recycled to be reused as a secondary raw material. The K3I-Cycling project aims to increase the use of recyclates with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) and paves the way to a sustainable circular economy.

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.

The VIGIMARE project aims to improve cooperation and information sharing between critical infrastructure operators, EU Member States and public authorities to optimize the response to threats to EU critical underwater infrastructure.

In the lighthouse project Factory-X, an open and collaborative data ecosystem for factory outfitters and operators is being developed on the basis of Catena-X and concepts of the Industry 4.0 platform. Fraunhofer IOSB is involved in or leading a number of use cases.

The Fraunhofer Academy's “Cybersecurity Training Lab” is a collaboration between the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and selected universities of applied sciences. Specialists and managers from industry and public administration receive a compact qualification in high-quality laboratories with up-to-date IT infrastructure.

Innovative assistance systems and services support vehicle automation.