Intelligent networking of digital documents
Networking information and pooling knowledge: that is the major challenge of the digital world. Whether it be online information or datasets from companies and organizations - for efficient network...

Self-contained navigation of cities and buildings with awiloc®
For a more memorable museum trip, use Wi-Fi positioning with awiloc®. This guide system offers in-depth information about whichever exhibit the visitor is standing in front of. The position is calc...

Artguardian - high-tech solutions for protecting art
Private art collectors and national museums alike are faced with the dilemma of wanting to exhibit their works to the public while at the same time wanting to protect them against external factors,...

Smart Semantics - a range of opinions analyzed at a glance
Customer feedback is in higher demand than ever before. To provide the best possible assessment of opinions found on the Internet, Fraunhofer IAIS offers solutions for semantic analysis of blogs, f...

autoportrait - hand-drawn portraits by a robot
A robot that does portraits of humans! It sits at a drawing board, with a stool standing ready for its model. As soon as a visitor sits down, the robot sets to work. The automated artist uses camer...

RedFIR® - the chip-in-ball technology
The radio-based location positioning technology RedFIR® provides trainers and the media with innovative solutions for football: real-time 3D analysis, direct feedback while training or during a mat...

FitnessSHIRT: with the ball at your feet - and your heart in the spotl
Performing and giving your all - this is the core of sporting ambition. But rather than constantly pushing yourself to the limit, it is more effective and efficient to follow an active training pla...

WiBack technology - PeopleConnect
Where no landline infrastructure is available, wireless connectivity offers a fast alternative with minimal resource requirements. As an alternative to conventional, narrow approaches, Fraunhofer F...

SAISBECO
The great apes are threatened with extinction. In various wildlife conservation projects, different methods are being employed to study their behavior, including the use of video traps. A new type ...

Full-HD Voice: redefining the quality of phone calls
HD is the 21st-century standard. In movie theaters, on TV, on iTunes: every way we turn, we encounter high-quality audio and video content. The only exception is telephone calls, which sound muffle...

Virtual Sky and nLightened Workplace
The Virtual Sky luminous ceiling is composed of square LED tiles and simulates the dynamic lighting produced by passing clouds. The nLightened Workplace utilizes the high resolution and extra inter...

Open data for urban management
Access to freely available data sets of government authorities and other municipal entities is becoming ever more important for the interaction between governments, the business world and ordinary ...

Open government for modern administrations
Interactive Internet services are one of the chief drivers of social change. Social media and Web 2.0 have introduced new forms of communication, collaboration and participation that are beginning ...

Interactive planning in 3-D
When new buildings or urban infrastructure projects are built, planners have to take into account information from local consultation exercises and data from various different sources. Multitouch t...

The 3D Innovation Center Berlin
Berlin now hosts the 3D Innovation Center! The Center offers all actors in the 3-D systems chain a platform where they can exchange ideas and experience, build contacts and test products and system...

MPEG-DASH - 3-D adaptive videostreaming
Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH) is the recent open, multimedia transmission standard for streaming Internet TV to stationary and mobile terminals. Fraunhofer HHI is showcasing the ...

Technology preview: Dialogue enhancement
Fraunhofer's new dialogue enhancement technology enables radio listeners and TV viewers to control the audio balance between the commentator's voice and background noise or sound effects to suit th...

Independent living with AAL
Intelligent environments will soon be making our lives easier. With the help of ambient assisted living technologies, they automatically and proactively adapt to a person's needs according to the s...

HearingSupport4Telecommunication
HearingSupport4Telecommunication is a system that enables people with hearing difficulties to use a normal telephone. Innovative signal processing strategies adapt the incoming voice signal to the ...

ADVANCED training WITH FRAUNHOFER
In cooperation with renowned colleges and universities, the Fraunhofer Academy offers specialists and executive staff an excellent program of educational training based on the research work being c...

HOPSCOTCH - combining physical exercise and learning
Sitting down with a book to memorize vocabulary can quickly become boring. HOPSCOTCH is a learning concept developed by Fraunhofer IDMT that utilizes the natural urge to move around as motivation f...

Invent the future with us!
There are excellent opportunities for developing young scientific talent at the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. Practical, application-oriented projects, combined with professional and personal education,...

Interactive Shop Window
The interactive shop window enables people in the street to operate a video terminal installed behind a store window by means of simple gestures. Four small cameras fixed to the window continually ...

SHORE: Face detection and facial expression analysis
It's in the smile... The cognitive systems research and development group is developing integrated face detection and facial expression analysis solutions for use in market research, targeted adver...

BizzTrust for Android - two smartphones in one
BizzTrust smartphones protect commercial data and applications without posing any restrictions on users. They detect whether data relate to a private or business application, store these data in se...

Serious games for system development and evaluation
Play at being a firefighter! Take part in a search-and-rescue operation in the virtual simulation FireSim, testing a future navigation system for firefighters. Fraunhofer FIT demonstrates how game-...

Cloud Control Center
The Cloud Control Center displays risk management information and continuous monitoring of cloud-based infrastructures (IaaS) and applications (SaaS) using different dashboards and drill-down funct...

Cloud Workpad
Cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) are the dominant trends in the IT industry today. But how practical is it to actually work with cloud services? And how should the issue of data pro...

Visual analytics for security applications
Ever-increasing and confusing volumes of data are a typical feature of every area of business and public life today. In many cases, this flood of data can threaten the security of critical infrastr...

OmniCloud - guaranteed security and lower backup costs
OmniCloud provides an efficient means of backing up data in the cloud. The software solution is installed on the company's own premises and encrypts data before they are sent to the cloud. If multi...

ConWeaver - make your data work!
These days, companies generate vast amounts of data. This data is stored in various different file formats on a variety of internal storage media. As a result, data islands form, making it consider...

Logistics Mall - cloud-based solutions for logistics IT services
The Logistics Mall virtual marketplace provides customers with flexible, demand-driven access to individual logistics IT services, as well as to complex logistics applications and IT support for co...

Visible Light Communication
LEDs are the lighting technology of the future - combining energy efficiency and long life. A new system developed by Fraunhofer HHI in collaboration with Siemens allows broadband data streams to b...

Template protection - security for biometrics
Biometrics can create a clear link between a person and their identity. To make this possible, biometric reference data is stored in systems. This data is extremely sensitive and can also contain d...

BlackFIR® - radio-based positioning service for security and logistics
BlackFIR® technology ensures transparent processes by continuously detecting the position of objects and people within delimited areas. This real-time positioning service can be used in airports or...

Reality Monitoring - Tracking events in real time
Mounting a response to critical events and major disasters requires rapidly available, reliable information. New methods for analyzing mobile phone data and Twitter postings provide this rapid-resp...

Smart interactive electromobility
Advanced information technology and software engineering are the principal innovation drivers in the automotive industry. Fraunhofer FOKUS will be presenting Cooperative Driving - which increases t...

A toolbox of algorithms for autonomous mobile robots
Mobile robots can offer people support in a wide variety of ways by operating in dangerous or inaccessible environments. The algorithm toolbox enables a multitude of different mobile platforms to b...

Engineering Mobile Business
Thanks to apps on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, personal and private business can be taken care of anytime, anywhere. As part of the "Business goes mobile" research field, Fraunho...

InnoVisions - Fraunhofer magazine showcasing future innovations
The Fraunhofer InnoVisions project provides a platform for presenting editorial articles on ICT research topics undertaken by Fraunhofer Institutes and their partners. The projects are sorted accor...