Green by ICT

Research focus

• Automation Technology
• Supply Chain Services
• Electronic Solutions for Logistics
• Distributed Sensor Systems
• Blockchain
• Data Ecosystems
• Energy Management Systems
• Predictive Maintenance

The role of information and communications technology (ICT) in business and society has changed radically in recent years. Modern everyday life is no longer imaginable without ICT, from smart cell phones to intelligent power grids, from operating rooms to assistance systems in cars. The main reason for its rapidly growing importance is the ability to use sensors to record the environment with greater precision and to process large volumes of data in the smallest spaces at breakneck speed. The ability to link data in real-time and the immediacy of data exchange positively and negatively affect environmental sustainability.

Not only can ICT itself be designed to be environmentally friendly and sustainable (Green ICT), but ICT solutions can also be used in other technical and economic areas to reduce energy and resource consumption as well as the carbon foot print (Green by ICT).

Project ARCHE

A holistic management concept is necessary to ensure an optimal energy mix and operation of energy storage systems for building complexes with a decentralized energy system. A particular challenge here is to guarantee the security of supply despite different energy sources and energy conversion processes. Such energy and building control systems are currently technically possible but are associated with high costs for development and commissioning. ARCHE ("Architectures and Design Methodology for Self-Optimizing Control Methods in Distributed Energy Systems") will significantly reduce development costs. This will contribute to spreading environmentally friendly systems with high use of renewable carbon-free or carbon-neutral energy.
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ENTRAS – Energy self-powered tracking system

Consistent and energy-efficient localization of goods, people and animals is made possible by the modular, energy-independent ENTRAS tracking system. Satellite navigation was combined with localization in wireless sensor networks and energy supply through Energy Harvesting.
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Data Hub for the Exchange of Sustainability Data (SustainHub)

The SustainHub initiative makes collecting and relaying sustainability data (energy and material consumption, prohibited hazardous substances, such as those specified by REACh, RoHS and the ELV directive) possible along the supply chain and between different stakeholders at the same stage in the supply or value-added chain. Key target groups include the electronics and automotive industries.
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