Fraunhofer FOKUS researches digital transformation and its impact on society, economics and technology. Since 1988 it supports commercial enterprises and public administration in the shaping and implementation of the digital transformation. For this purpose, Fraunhofer FOKUS offers research services ranging from requirements analysis to consulting, feasibility studies, technology development right up to prototypes and pilots in the business segments Digital Public Services, Future Applications and Media, Quality Engineering, Smart Mobility, Software-based Networks, Networked Security, Visual Computing und Analytics. With about 440 employees in Berlin and an annual budget of 33 million euros, Fraunhofer FOKUS is one of the largest ICT institutes of the Fraunhofer Society. Around 80 percent of its budget is generated through projects from industry and the public domain. Within the IIoT Center industrial network technologies, standard-based connectivity and communication mechanisms, Fog/Edge/Cloud computing infrastructures, machine-to-machine communication, device management, orchestration and data analytics platforms enable a new generation of highly reliable, highly secure, near-realtime and intelligent IIoT applications.

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