Fraunhofer Joint Booth: Digital Factory
Hall 2 Booth C22 - Cognitive Systems for Industry 4.0 and IIoT
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Hall 17 Booth C24 - Ultra reliable Wireless Industrial Network
RFID is already being used in logistics today. However, the current state of the art only allows the identification, but not motion detection of the RFID chips. Thus, it cannot be assessed whether a good is leaving the company or wheter it has just arrived. The innovative technology of Fraunhofer IIS makes this possible. A demonstrator simulates a logistics department and because of the direction recognition through the RFID chips, outgoing and incoming goods can be clearly determined.
Smart Objects enable complete transparency of logistic and production processes like e.g. current production status or ressources which allow for controlling flexible and efficiently the whole manufacturing process: the demonstration showcases are distribution of goods assisted by Put-to-Light processes, level measurement via smart containers, process control by Smart Objects during production.
Man and machine will work closely together in the future. Fraunhofer IIS now offers an innovation for the safe and effective assistance of picking vehicles in high-bay warehouses. The new technology constantly measures the exact position of the person to the picking vehicle. Thus, the wagon can follow the person during picking at a safe and reasonable distance. This innovative technology will be shown live at the HMI.
With location awareness becoming an essential feature of many new markets, positioning is consequently considered as an integral part of the system design of 5G mobile networks. Increased contextual awareness of goods, parts, machines and workers enables an unprecedented degree of interaction and collaboration. Fraunhofer IIS is working on advanced accurate positioning technologies to provide flexible solutions for tracking of mobile devices with sub-meter accuracy under varying requirements.
Foto: Kurt Fuchs / Fraunhofer IIS
Energy Harvesting uses environmental energy such as heat, light or motion to generate electric energy. Using thermal generators or piezo materials and highly optimized voltage transformers, minimal amounts of energy from the immediate environment can be used to supply small electrical consumers such as sensors or radio transmitters. This results in maintenance-free systems with unlimited operating and service life.
Moving components of industrial automation systems often require connections to a central control system with very short cycle times. In order to achieve free rotation up to 360° a wireless connection is required. Therefore Fraunhofer IIS has developed an ultra-reliable low-latency communication technology. It is deployable as a wireless extension or even as a substitute for wired fieldbuses.
In the "Track and Trace" application scenario of the Fraunhofer CCIT, permanent goods tracking with secure location information and trackchain technology is shown. By using the Trackchain technology, the transport data is stored in the blockchain and manipulation-free further processing with read permissions is guaranteed. This ensures beyond doubt that only involved and authorized parties have access to information.
The Fraunhofer Cluster Cognitive Internet Technologies (CCIT) offers bundled technological competence from thirteen institutes and researches cognitive technologies for the industrial Internet in order to strengthen the competitiveness of companies through highly intelligent products and services. With its work, the IoT-COMMs research center aims to advance and combine research in the basic technologies of networking, localization and information security.
Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS![](/en/muv/2019/HMI2019/_jcr_content/contentPar/sectioncomponent/sectionParsys/textwithinlinedimage/imageComponent1/image.img.large.jpg/1550586975373/IMG-0247.jpg "Neue RFID- und Antennentechnik für den "digitalen" Warenein-und ausgang")
