Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications
 Main building of Fraunhofer HHI in Berlin, Germany (2020) | |
| Established | 1928 |
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| Focus | Information and communications technology, Telecommunications engineering |
| Executive Directors | Martin Schell and Thomas Wiegand |
| Staff | 410 |
| Location | , |
| Website | www.hhi.fraunhofer.de |
The Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute, HHI, also known as Fraunhofer HHI or Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, is an organization of the
Competencies
The Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute develops mobile and stationary
Scientists at the institute work together with national and international research and industry partners. For example, institute researchers were involved in the development of the
Research
The research and development work of the Fraunhofer HHI takes place in six departments.[4]
The research focus of the Photonic Networks and Systems department are high-performance optical transmission systems for use in in-house, access, metropolitan, wide-area and satellite communication networks. The focus is on increasing the capacity as well as improving security and energy efficiency.
The Photonic Components department develops
The research on novel
The research focus of the Wireless Communications and Networks department is on radio-based information transmission. The department provides contributions to the theory and technical feasibility of radio systems and develops hardware prototypes. This is supplemented by scientific studies, simulations and evaluations at the link and system levels.
The Video Coding & Analytics department is researching actively the efficient encoding, transport, processing and analysis of video signals as well as machine learning.
The focus in the Vision & Imaging Technologies department is on complex 2D/3D analysis and synthesis methods, on computer vision as well as innovative camera, sensor, display and projection systems. The department is researching for the entire video processing chain from content creation to playback.
Partnerships
Fraunhofer HHI employees hold professorships at the following universities:
- Technical University of Berlin (image communication, optical and opto-electric integration, network information theory)
- Clausthal University of Technology (applied photonics)
- Humboldt University of Berlin (visual computing)
- University of Potsdam (embedded systems architectures for signal processing)
Fraunhofer HHI is a member of the following internal Fraunhofer groups and alliances
- Fraunhofer ICT Group
- Fraunhofer Group for Microelectronics
- Fraunhofer Group for Defense and Security
- Fraunhofer Alliance Ambient Assisted Living (AAL)
- Fraunhofer Alliance Big Data
- Fraunhofer Innovation Cluster Secure Identity
- Fraunhofer Innovation Cluster Life Cycle Engineering
- Fraunhofer Alliance Digital Media
- Fraunhofer Alliance Embedded Systems
- Fraunhofer Alliance Vision
Infrastructure
The total budget of Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute in 2015 was around EUR 49.2 million. The external funding ratio was 75 percent. 49.8 percent of the budget came from industrial revenues, 13 percent from federal and state contract research, and 6.5 percent from funds provided by the European Union. Around 270 employees and 140 students worked at the institute in 2015.
History
Establishment of the institute
The founding phase of the
Effectively, the institute was founded on 23 February 1928 as Heinrich Hertz Institute for Oscillation Research. The opening took place in 1930 in Berlin-Charlottenburg, Franklinstrasse 1, with four departments: High-Frequency Engineering, Telecommunications and Telegraph Technology, Acoustics and Mechanics. Research focused on radio and television technology, room acoustics and electronic music among other things. The institute was reorganized in 1936 and the name Heinrich Hertz was wiped out from its designation in the course of National Socialist "cleansing" in the interest of the Third Reich.
Post World War II
After the institute building was entirely destroyed in 1945, the Heinrich Hertz Institute for Oscillation Research was newly founded in the same year by Gustav Leithäuser with the former department structure. During the time of the currency reform and
Institute with state and federal participation
The institute was renamed to Heinrich-Hertz-Institut for Nachrichtentechnik Berlin GmbH (Heinrich-Hertz Institute for Communication Technology) in 1975 with the state of Berlin and the Federal Republic of Germany as shareholders. Realignment of the entire HHI research profile by Horst Ohnsorge. Systematic work on current problems of modern communication technology. Vision of a universal broadband communication network on a fiber optics basis. 5 specialist departments: General Principles; System Structures; Image and Sound; Relaying and Transmission; Planning. Support for optical communication engineering as a key technology at HHI in the 1980s. Restructuring of the institute with formation of two divisions: Communication Systems with the departments of Relaying and Transmission, Signal Processing and Terminal Equipment, Economic and Social Sciences Accompanying Research, and Human Engineering, and the division: Integrated Optics.
In the 1990s research focused on the following fields: photonic networks, electronic imaging technology for multimedia, mobile broadband systems, and integrated optics.
Transition to the Fraunhofer Society
The institute became part of the Fraunhofer Society in 2003 and received today’s name, Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute, HHI. The institute has been cooperating with the neighboring Technical University of Berlin for decades.
A data transmission system was successfully developed in 2006 with a never-before-seen speed of 2560
On 10 November 2016 scientists of the Fraunhofer HHI established a bidirectional 1.7
List of directors
- Karl Willy Wagner, founding director (1927–1936)
- Willi Willing (provisional February 1936–March 1937)
- Heinrich Fassbender (1937–1945)
- Gustav Leithäuser (1945–1953)
- Friedrich-Wilhelm Gundlach (1957–1972)
- Horst Ohnsorge (1975–1980)
- Wolfgang Grunow (1980–1982)
- Clemens Baack (1982–2002)
- Joachim Hesse (provisional with Mr. Mrowka 2002–2004)
- Hans-Joachim Grallert (2004–2013) and Holger Boche (2004–2010)
- Martin Schell (since 2014) and Thomas Wiegand (since 2014)
References
- ^ Emmy for MPEG-2 Transport Stream Standard Archived 24 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine – hhi.fraunhofer.de, 17 January 2014.
- ^ The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) honors Dr. Detlev Marpe Archived 24 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine – hhi.fraunhofer.de, 16 January 2015.
- ^ Awards for researchers of the Fraunhofer HHI Archived 22 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine – hhi.fraunhofer.de, 15 July 2015.
- ^ Research Departments of the Institute hhi.fraunhofer.de, 31 January 2017.
- ^ History of the Heinrich-Hertz Institute Archived 31 January 2017 at the Wayback Machine – www.freunde.hhi.de, as of 31 January 2017.
- ^ 2x1.7-Terabit/s eye-safe optical link demonstrated over 380 meters at Fraunhofer HHI – hhi.fraunhofer.de, 2 February 2017.
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