03/09/2021 | The German Association of Mechanical and Plant Engineering (VDMA) created the working group Wireless Communications for Machines (AG WCM) on March 1, 2021. As a founding member, fortiss wants to make a significant contribution toward supporting the integration of wireless communications in industrial IoT environments. This working group will form the basis for the creation of cooperation with the production industry, making it possible for fortiss to better coordinate the development concepts in line with the requirements of real production environments.

03/03/2021 | “As of 2022, everything here will be digital.” Is that a sentence that would be hard to imagine coming from a government representative these days? At the moment, perhaps not yet, but the regulation with the bulky name “Federal Act to Improve Online Access to Administrative Services”, which also goes by the German acronym OZG, can help. If the researchers from IBM and fortiss, the independent, Free State of Bavaria research institute for software-intensive systems, have their way however, that’s not all. The two partners are already working together on a solution for proactive public administration services, in which the process is not only digital, but is even initiated proactively. Beginning to sound exciting, right?

02/24/2021 | At the end of January a virtual kick-off meeting was held for the research project "BEST - Blockchain-based decentralized energy market design and management structures". fortiss and its consortium partners are conducting research into how the blockchain technology can best be implemented for energy trading within the framework of the energy transition. The consortium project, which is scheduled to run for three years and includes participants from the research and the energy industry is being funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. Represented by the Human-centered Engineering field of competence, among other activities fortiss is developing a personalised prognosis model for future energy consumption through the utilization of machine learning (ML) technology.

02/10/2021 | Most of us are meanwhile familiar with fake news. Using artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning however, not only images but also video and sound can be manipulated so that these “deep fake” videos appear authentic. As a result, politicians end up making false statements or celebrities have their faces superimposed in pornographic videos – or so it seems.

02/03/2021 | The innovation centers TUM Venture Labs at Technical University Munich promote high-tech innovation and technology-based spin-offs at the interfaces of engineering, natural and life sciences, AI/IT and medicine. Their service offerings include start-up support, networking events, and a variety of educational opportunities. As part of a 4-day educational webinar, fortiss successfully contributed its expertise in the field of Machine Learning to the initiative.

01/27/2021 | Thanks to more complex legal frameworks and numerous exceptions to the rules that make farming operations increasingly more time consuming, Bavarian farmers and their consultants are facing major challenges. With the aim of enabling more efficient and cost-effective farming operations, an independent, digitally-supporting agriculture consulting platform was developed as part of the FarmExpert 4.0 research project.

01/13/2021 | Scientists around the world are urgently conducting research into the vehicle traffic system of the future. After all, connected and autonomous driving has the potential to make mobility significantly safer and more reliable. Studies that examine better ways to provide real-time information to drivers, assistance systems, self-driving vehicles and road infrastructure operators are serving as the foundation for this research. With the aim of safeguarding interaction between the participating systems in the near future, fortiss is collaborating with research and industry partners as part of the Providential++ consortium project to establish the required digital infrastructure.