Harald Sundmaeker

Institut für angewandte Systemtechnik Bremen GmbH | ATB-Bremen · System Analysis and Design

The position paper underlines the importance of data spaces and though the sovereign sharing of data in creating the future data economy. It has been developed under the coordination and leadership of Task Force 1 lead by International Data Spaces Association of the Horizon 2020 project “OPEN DEI Aligning Reference Architectures, Open Platforms and...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to be a real game changer in food and farming. However, an important challenge for large-scale uptake of IoT is to deal with the huge heterogeneity of this domain. This paper develops and applies an architecture framework for modelling IoT-based systems in the agriculture and food domain. The framework compr...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to be a real game changer that will drastically improve productivity and sustainability in food and farming. However, current IoT applications in this domain are still fragmentary and mainly used by a small group of early adopters. The Internet of Food and Farm 2020 Large-Scale Pilot (IoF2020) addresses the...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is changing how industrial and consumer markets are developing. Robotic devices, drones and autonomous vehicles, blockchains, augmented and virtual reality, digital assistants and machine learning (artificial intelligence or AI) are the technologies that will provide the next phase of development of IoT applications. Th...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to be a real game changer that will drastically improve productivity and sustainability in food and farming. However, current IoT applications in this domain are still fragmentary and mainly used by a small group of early adopters. The Internet of Food and Farm 2020 Large-Scale Pilot (IoF2020) addresses the...

Supply of fresh food is of vital importance to feed Europe in a healthy way, while Europe has also an important role in feeding the world. Food products and other perishables such as flowers impose very challenging demands on the management of its supply chains. Food networks are struggling with an integrated usage of information and communication...

Supply of fresh food is of vital importance to feed Europe in a healthy way, while Europe has also an important role in feeding the world. Food products and other perishables such as flowers impose very challenging demands on the management of its supply chains. Food networks are struggling with an integrated usage of information and communication...

FIspace represents an Internet based B2B collaboration platform that can be used by actors along the supply chain, and specifically the agri-food chain, facilitating the design and usage of inter-organisational workflows. The FIspace platform was developed by using FIWARE, a European initiative to develop technologies for a Future Internet. At the...

Energy and resource efficiency is becoming an important strategy in manufacturing. In the automotive industry, the assessment of the environmental impact of a product in use-phase is common practice. In contrast, the manufacturing phase often lacks detailed data; potential for improvement gets lost. Analysis and comparative evaluation of how the pr...

FIspace represents an Internet based B2B collaboration platform that can be used by actors along the supply chain, and specifically the agri-food chain, facilitating the design and usage of inter-organisational workflows. The FIspace platform was developed by using FIWARE, a European initiative to develop technologies for a Future Internet. At the...

The European Future Internet Initiative, called FIWARE, targets in its final and third phase at acceleration of Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SME). The ‘FInish’ accelerator provides grants for realisation of intelligent systems and specifically business to business (B2B) oriented apps for supply chains of perishable products such as food and...

The European Future Internet Initiative, called FIWARE, targets in its final and third phase at acceleration of Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SME). The ?FInish? accelerator provides grants for realisation of intelligent systems and specifically business to business (B2B) oriented apps for supply chains of perishable products such as food and...

The paper will present an approach for an incremental solution development that is based on the usage of the currently developed Internet based FIspace business collaboration platform. Key element is the clear segmentation of infrastructures that are either internal or external to the collaborating business entity in the food network. On the one ha...

The EC funded FI-PPP programme is currently elaborating a large set of enabling technologies that shall help to overcome challenges towards a sustainable networked society of tomorrow. This up-front investment can highly facilitate access to such Internet potentials by food chain SMEs. Nevertheless, SMEs require a systematic support for being able...

The food and agribusiness is an important sector in European logistics with a share in the EU road transport of about 20%. One of the main logistic challenges in this sector is to deal with the high dynamics and uncertainty in supply and demand. This paper discusses the opportunities of Future Internet (FI) technologies to addresses the specific de...

The Future Internet is expected to greatly influence how the food and agriculture sector is currently operating. In this paper, we present the specific characteristics of the agri-food sector focusing on how information management in this area will take place under a highly heterogeneous group of actors and services, based on the EU SmartAgriFood p...

Energy and resource efficiency is becoming an important factor in manufacturing, helping to avoid bottleneck situations in times of sparse resources. Sustainable products are promising new improvements and are attracting customers more than ever. In the automotive industry, the assessment of the environmental impact of a product in use phase is alr...

The paper presents a systematic approach for energy efficient engineering of injection mould design. It supports engineers with analysing design outcomes for an energy efficient operation of injection moulds, while the approach needs to guarantee the appropriate final products’ quality and assure production process performance over several years of...

The book aims to provide a broad overview of various topics of the Internet of Things (IoT) from the research and development priorities to enabling technologies, architecture, security, privacy, interoperability and industrial applications. It is intended to be a stand-alone book in a series that covers the Internet of Things activities of the IER...

This paper discusses the specific challenges of the agri-food sector in the light of research carried out in the SmartAgriFood project. Using questionnaires and focus groups, our research identifies a number of business needs and drivers which enable the identification of suitable Future Internet technologies across the three sub-domains of Smart F...

Internet of Things (IoT) enables the objects in our environment to become active participants, i.e., they share information with other members of the network or with any other stakeholder and they are capable of recognizing events and changes in their surroundings and of acting and reacting autonomously in an appropriate manner. In this context the...

The food and agribusiness is an important sector in European logistics with a share in the EU road transport of about 20%. One of the main logistic challenges in this sector is to deal with the high dynamics and uncertainty in supply and demand. This paper defines requirements on Future Internet (FI) technologies that have to be met to accomplish t...

The number of electronic networked devices that can potentially connect the Internet simply exploded over the last several years in both private and public environments. They are covering a wide range from passive RFID tags up to personal computer like “all-in-one” devices. The CuteLoop project is researching a framework for using such networked de...

Foreword by Peter Friess & Gérald Santuci: It goes without saying that we are very content to publish this Clusterbook and to leave it today to your hands. The Cluster of European Research projects on the Internet of Things – CERP-IoT – comprises around 30 major research initiatives, platforms and networks work-ing in the field of identification te...

The availability of mobile and distributed networked devices dramatically increased over the past decade in both private and business environments. They are covering a wide spectrum from passive RFID tags up to personal computer like “all-in-one” devices. This current infrastructure of “digital things” is already connecting the internet to a certai...

Im Rahmen des Forschungsprojektes Mobility@forest wurde eine innovative nutzerorientierte IT-Infrastruktur eines mobilen Arbeitsplatzes für Forstbetriebe entwickelt. Durch intelligente Unterstützung des Fachpersonals bei Planung, Navigation, Datenbereitstellung und Datenerfassung soll die Vor-Ort-Arbeit im Wald grundlegend verbessert werden.

This paper presents an innovative approach how to bring AmI technologies to the industrial sector of manufacturing SMEs and how to develop and validate business process innovations based on the Ambient Intelligence philosophy. Furthermore a Building Block concept to develop reusable components which are required to realise an intelligent human oper...

A proactive collaboration with customers facilitates serving of their explicit as well as implicit requirements. However, current supply chain organisation and installed information systems have often problems with dynamic interfacing of supply chain actors and with supporting real life interaction principles. Therefore, specifically interaction be...

Competitiveness of European Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SME) in the global marketplace is correlated to and determined by diverse factors. However, specifically SME’s ability to satisfy explicit and implicit customer requirements as well as to proactively integrate them as a driver of complex business networks is a key success factor. Altho...

This paper presents an innovative approach how to bring AmI technologies to the industrial sector of manufacturing SMEs and how to develop and validate business process innovations based on the Ambient Intelligence philosophy. Furthermore a Building Block concept to develop reusable components which are required to realise an intelligent human oper...

AmI technologies are likely to play a key role in respect to the innovation of industrial collaborative working environments. The paper presents a new approach how to bring AmI technologies to the industrial sector of manufacturing SMEs and how to develop and validate business processes innovations based on "Ambient Intelligence" philosophy. Thus,...

The paper intends to contribute to understanding and definition of the paradigm of Ambient Intelligence (AmI). The paper specifically focuses upon AmI application in manufacturing industry. The new definition of AmI systems in industry is proposed intending to indicate a clear correlation between AmI systems and 'classical intelligent control'. The...

This paper covers results of the EU funded project Team-Hos (IST-1999-11567): METHODOLOGY AND TOOLS FOR WORLD-BEST TEAMWORK IN HOSPITALS. This paper presents a business process reengineering method enabling health care professionals to drive the introduction of optimal, ICT supported, new methods of work. The detailed results are outlined from one...

This paper presents results of the COST-WORTH project (IST–2001-52223/ IMS 02005): COaching Support Tool to better identify Working process improvements Through introduction of Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Solutions (IMSS). Within the scope of EU funded IMS-project a new methodology framework is under development providing a unique, consistent...

Modern workplace design approaches, such as teamwork concepts, supported by advanced Information and Communication Technology (ICT) offer excellent opportunities to act in response to the high requirements imposed by modern health care systems in hospitals, ensuring the highest quality to the patient by minimising health care costs. Presented is a...

This paper presents a cost and time efficient approach to implement a vital Quality Management System (QM) at small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries (DC) to increase their competitiveness and to enable them to enter in international supply chains and virtual enterprise structures. It includes an overview of the actual sit...

Each Business Process Improvement activity aims besides others in increasing quality or productivity. Within the realisation of these abstract aims, improvement projects which are resulting in introduction of new production management systems often fail in the phase of implementation. Advances as planned could not be realised and the break even poi...