Research
Research area of the Cyber-Physical Systems working group
CONET, the Cooperating Objects Network of Excellence, is an EU-funded project that aims at fostering a European research community in the emerging domain of cooperating objects, i.e., wireless networks of embedded systems that perform a task in cooperation. One of the key issues addressed by CONET is the reliability...
The DFG Excellence Cluster on Inflammation at Interfaces involves more than 200 researchers in genetics, biology, medicine and engineering who are investigating causes and treatment of inflammatory diseases by which millions of patients are affected in the developed world...
makeSense is a research project funded by the European Commission and aims to develop techniques and tools to simplify the development of business processes that involve sensing and actuation. This is achieved by extending business process modeling languages to support the seamless specification of sensing and actuation tasks, by...
Programmable matter is an innovative material whose physical properties can change on-demand by reprogramming the small particles it is composed of. Our focus is on shape shifting material where the macroscopic shape of the material can be changed under program control. Such material would enable ...
Real-World G-Lab is an individual project in the framework of the German-Lab initiative funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and explores the integration of embedded computing platforms such as wireless sensors and sensor networks into a Future Internet, resulting in an ...
SPITFIRE is a research project funded by the European Commission as part of the FIRE initiative which aims to integrate the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) and the Semantic Web. In SPITFIRE, semantic annotations are developed to describe embedded sensors connected to the IoT, their output, and the objects they are attached to; such that applications ...
Bridges are subject to a continual process of aging and require continuous monitoring, which is associated with considerable costs. The goal is to make the monitoring and maintenance more cost-effective through continuous monitoring with wireless sensor networks.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is deemed to enable applications of utmost societal value including smart cities, smart grids, and smart healthcare. However, most of these applications pose strict dependability requirements on IoT performance:
sensor data and actuation...
