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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  • In the in-house research project CrossTEP-OPAL, we are developing a web-based platform toolbox for the acquisition, presentation and intelligent evaluation of sensor data. The aim is to establish a data science pipeline in order to be able to implement application projects revolving around sensor data quickly and cost-effectively.

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  • The project "FriDa - Fresh Data" aims to digitally map the freshness status of food within the entire supply chain from harvest to sale. In the process, the technical possibilities of Industry 4.0 are translated into the food industry in an exemplary manner.

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  • BRDF: Measurement of the directional reflection of surfaces

    The bidirectional reflectance distribution function describes the reflection properties of a material surface

    Optical reflections on surfaces of objects and materials play a major role in many areas. BRDF is used in the analysis of materials to obtain detailed information about the optical reflection properties.

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  • As part of the project, a software suite tailored to the production environment was developed to support a wide range of process and product optimisation tasks, e.g. performance and condition monitoring, quality optimisation, product development, variant management, trial planning and updating of master data.

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  • © Fraunhofer IOSB

    Within the E-MonAut project, measures for the optimization of the operational management are investigated and evaluated. These measures are expected to make a comparatively large contribution to the reduction of the final energy demand with a relatively low investment volume while at the same time actively protecting the building fabric (e.g. prevention of mold growth) and considering the individual user needs (comfort and economic criteria, information requirements).

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  • Urban heat islands degrade the quality of life in many urban centers. This is why local councils of fast-growing megapoli work hand in hand with scientific communities and research facilities to identify and reduce the man-made sources of UHI by imposing forestation, employing sustainable and heat-emissive materials and strengthening public transport.

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  • Eur3ka – Manufacturing as a Service for fast pandemic reaction

    Repurposing and networking of available production capacities and capabilities to cope with global production crises

    Manufacturing as a Service – Eur3ka – Network for Fast Pandemic Reaction
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    The aim of the H2020 project is the digital management of production capacities for the development of flexible supply chains between consumers and producers - especially for rapid response to pandemics.

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  • The MODISSA testbed

    Experimental platform for hardware evaluation and software development

    MODISSA, a mobile sensor carrier

    MODISSA in front of the IOSB institute building in Ettlingen, Germany.

    MODISSA (Mobile Distributed Situation Awareness) is the IOSB's realization of an experimental platform for hardware evaluation and software development in the contexts of automotive safety, security, and military applications. It is based on a Volkswagen van VW T5 that has been equipped with a broad range of sensors and contains hardware for complete raw data capture, real-time data analysis, and immediate data visualization on in-car displays

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