Projects

GreenHET is developing a digital energy twin for real-time sustainability, reducing energy consumption and emissions to create an energy-efficient hospital. This enables the identification of energy-efficiency opportunities, the digital simulation of optimization measures, and the monitoring of their impact during operation.

With the WarehouseDesigner warehouse design software, you can transform warehouse layout sketches into compliant digital layouts in seconds. AI-based computer vision recognizes functional areas, capacities, and labels—for faster concept phases, reliable variant comparisons, and transparent, data-driven warehouse planning.

The Sensing Puck makes cold chains transparent: The robust IoT device measures temperature, humidity, and position, logs events, and simplifies quality control. Ideal for the chemical industry and other sectors that must maintain a temperature of 15–25 °C. For fewer complaints and greater process reliability.

Minerva stands for Skilled trades 4.0 in practice. The joint project is developing a platform that combines virtual consulting, problem diagnosis, augmented reality guidance, and AI chatbots. Small craft businesses are making their services more flexible in terms of space and time. They are testing new business models. The platform builds on preliminary work from „Athene 4.0“ and „ARBAY“.

The Athene 4.0 joint research project investigated how digitalization can be made practical and employee-friendly in the skilled trades, which forms of skills development are suitable for small businesses, and what a utilization model could look like. The result of Athene 4.0 was a digital platform for the skilled trades that facilitates order processing and improves the exchange of information between mobile employee groups and between trades.

The Baden-Württemberg port strategy strengthens the role of inland ports on the Rhine, Neckar, and Main rivers in climate-neutral freight transport and responds to declining transport volumes on waterways in the 2040 federal transport forecast. The topic page outlines the approach, work packages, freight flow analyses, and transformation paths for politics, the port industry, and logistics companies, and brings together in-depth information on the project.

InstaScan turns paper into real data: AI recognizes content from waybills and accompanying documents, writes it to your systems as JSON, and speeds up workflows – open, secure, interoperable.

ForestGuard demonstrates how open source and blockchain simplify verification for deforestation-free coffee supply chains. The project combines geodata, proof of ownership, and process data, supports due diligence declarations in accordance with EUDR, and strengthens data sovereignty along complex, cross-border value chains.

Many businesses are being confronted with the challenge of introducing predictive maintenance. In this strategy, data from the operating environment of a machine leads to forecasts of imminent damage so that maintenance measures can be initiated at an early stage. This innovative data-driven maintenance strategy makes a major contribution toward increasing machine availability and profitability.

The SKALA project stands for scalable AI and blockchain solutions for automation and autonomization in value networks. The goal is to create an open, decentralized ecosystem that enables companies to design processes in production, logistics, and supply chain management in a secure, transparent, and efficient manner.