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Germany's innovative and economic strength is based above all on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which successfully hold their own in the market with high-performance products and services. To achieve this, SMEs increasingly need highly integrated technologies whose in-house development is too complex, lengthy and expensive for many companies.

The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Europe´s largest application-oriented research organization, will showcase a combination of RFID Auto-ID technology and sensors at the 2019 Automate exhibition and conference. This solution combines wireless identification and condition monitoring - two key functionalities of automated IoT solutions.

The Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Europe’s largest application-oriented research organization, will showcase a contactless and fiber-free high-speed optical communication solution at the 2019 Automate exhibition and conference. Instead of radio frequency, the solution uses light to transfer data wirelessly. Automate 2019 is scheduled to be held at McCormick Place in Chicago from 8-11 April.

Fraunhofer IPMS will promote a Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) IP Core with switch functionality, facilitating the integration of TSN functionalities into Ethernet network devices at the 2019 HANNOVER MESSE. Interested parties can inform themselves at the Fraunhofer IPMS Booth A11 in Hall 9.

Developers at Fraunhofer IPMS use visible or infrared light to send and receive data. Transmission takes place without contact, in real time, at very high data rates. Optical communication, Li-Fi (light fidelity) is particularly advantageous in applications in which cables and connectors can interfere, or wireless radio networks such as WLAN or Bluetooth reach performance limits in terms of bandwidth or real-time capability. Data glasses or “augmented reality glasses” fall into this category. Visitors to the 2019 embedded world Exhibition & Conference, being held from 26-28 February in Nuremberg, can experience the possibilities of optical wireless data transmission in an augmented reality scenario at the Fraunhofer IPMS Booth 123 in Hall 3.

Radio frequency identification (RFID) has long since arrived in the world of logistics. The AIM-D e.V., an independent association of the global Industry Association for Automated Identification, Data Acquisition and Mobile Data Communication (AIM) responsible for Germany, Austria and Switzerland, will demonstrate the potential of RFID in the context of various material flow processes at the 2019 LogiMAT in a Tracking & Tracing Theater showcase. Fraunhofer IPMS will participate in the showcase, exhibiting how the addition of wireless and battery-less sensors can further enrich Auto-ID processes.

Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) is a set of standards allowing for the timed and prioritized transmission of real-time critical messages over standard Ethernet hardware. With the TSN IP Core, developers at Fraunhofer IPMS provide equipment manufacturers and operators the opportunity to make their devices fit for new TSN standards. Fraunhofer IPMS will be presenting the possibilities of the TSN IP Core to members of the specialist public in Hall 7a, Booth 246 at this year's SPS IPC Drives event from 27-29 November in Nuremberg.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS developed a unique ultrasound transducer using its MEMS technology. OtoNexus Medical Technologies, Inc. - a Seattle, WA-based startup company - is using this technology in an innovative medical device to help diagnose middle ear infections (Otitis Media). Visit our partner OtoNexus Medical Technologies at MEDICA in Düsseldorf, Germany, from November 12-15, 2018 in Hall 16, Booth D10-1.