The Network

Size of companies / institutions:

The spectrum ranges from micro to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with a wide range of employee numbers, from a large social institution to very large institutions of higher education and non-university research.

Age:

It ranges from  recently founded spin-offs to institutions with more than 100 years of tradition.

Basic competencies:

• Investigation and evaluation of customer requests, market analyzes
• Requirement engineering
• Innovation Management
• Management of health processes
• Research and Development
• Teaching, education and training
• Testing, Validating, Evaluating, Certification
• Sales, marketing of products and services
• Care, support of patients or disabled people
• Economic Development

Specific subject-specific competences in various fields:

• Automation technology, process automation, measurement and control technology
• Robotics, motion automation, robot collaboration
• Autonomous driving, driver assistance
• Electrically powered small vehicles, electric motor control
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)
• Image processing, remote sensing, pattern recognition, classification
• Sensors, multimodal sensors, sensor data fusion
• Ambient Assisted Living (AAL)
• Micro Energy Harvesting (MEH)
• Contactless energy and data transmission
• Human-Machine Interaction, Human Machine Interfaces (HMI), user centered design
• Digital communication
• Internet of Things (IoT)
• Industry 4.0, Workplace 4.0, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Medical technology, orthopedics
• Computer Aided Facility Management (CAFM)
• Digital Building and Terrain Modeling
• Positioning, navigation
• Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) in the context of technical developments