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All press releases of Fraunhofer IOSB including it's IOSB-AST and IOSB-INA branches (as far as they have been published in English)

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  • The world's first omlox test laboratory was accredited at the Fraunhofer Institute in Lemgo in November 2023. This means that Lemgo meets all the technical and organizational requirements and has the expertise to test an omlox component for conformity to the standard. The accreditation was granted by the PROFIBUS user organization. Fraunhofer would like to use the future scientific findings of the test laboratory for the further technological development of the standard in order to sustainably strengthen Germany and Europe as technology locations.

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    Whilst there is no doubt about its detrimental effects, corruption is a complex phenomenon that is hard to precisely grasp and measure. Thus, policy decisions are poorly informed, and technological tools to support the fight against corruption are lacking. The recently launched Horizon Europe project “Fight Against Large-scale Corruption and Organised Crime Networks (FALCON)” will tackle these challenges. To this end, 25 partner organisations from 15 countries join forces. The 3-year interdisciplinary project is funded by the European Union with 4.7 million Euros under Grant Agreement ID 101121281. It is being coordinated by the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS), Greece. The kick-off meeting was held September 20-21 in Athens (see photo).

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  • Under the leadership of Fraunhofer IOSB, the "Data Platforms" subproject of the Baden-Württemberg KI-Allianz (AI alliance) will lay the technical and organizational foundation for companies and startups to easily gain access to the data and AI models of others. - with the aim of establishing a market for data that promotes the development and application of innovative AI solutions. The formal grant notifications for this first sub-project of the KI-Allianz BW - totaling 5.1 million euros - were handed over to the nine participating institutions in Stuttgart on July 20, 2023.

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    Surveying bodies of water precisely is a challenging task. Authorities and port operators are required to provide up-to-date maps of riverbeds and port facilities. Until now, this has required the use of special mapping vessels and a great deal of manpower. It is costly and is not being carried out with the frequency and precision that will be required for future applications, such as autonomous shipping. For this reason, a team of researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation IOSB has developed an easy-to-operate, unmanned watercraft that autonomously surveys bodies of water such as rivers, lakes and harbors both above and below the surface and produces corresponding 3D maps.

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  • Lemgo, 06.06.2023 -The very first omlox Plugfest recently took place and provided a platform for networking, professional exchange and collegial collaboration. The Plugfest was organized to test the compatibility and interoperability of omlox V2, an open standard for UWB-indoor localization in an industrial context.

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  • (Lemgo / Aurich) One of Germany's largest manufacturers of wind turbines, ENERCON, has joined forces with Fraunhofer IOSB-INA in Lemgo to develop a groundbreaking innovation for wind turbine (WTG) control: The new ultra-high-speed communication system has now been successfully implemented and tested at the end of 2022 at the Staphorst wind farm in the Netherlands in a model type E-138 EP3 wind turbine with a rotor diameter of 138 meters and a rated power of 4.26 MW. The new technology improves the control of so-called feed-in converters. With the increasing number of regenerative energy sources, powerful feed-in converters play a central role. Thus, the new Fraunhofer technology is an important building block for a robust energy grid of the future. The system makes it possible to control the active and reactive power feed-in of wind turbines into the energy grid in real time and more precisely than ever before, enabling potential for greater efficiency.

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  • Measuring the wing shape in midair

    Ettlingen / April 05, 2023

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    Making aircraft more fuel-efficient is one of the aviation industry's most important goals. To this end, Lufthansa Technik uses AeroSHARK, a technology inspired by sharkskin, which significantly reduces frictional drag and thus emissions. To attach the coating optimally, however, it is necessary to conduct flow simulations which take the actual wing shape during flight into account. Measuring this is a challenge - and a specialty of the Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation IOSB, as successful measurements flights by Lufthansa Technik have shown.

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