[EN] BEEWEN Automation GmbH joins ECSEL JU Projekt FRACTAL!

On September 16 and 17, 2020, the kick-off meeting of the FRACTAL research project took place successfully. Full of joy, our company has joined this research project and bears a part of the challenge in the project as a potential use case. Led by IKERLAN S. COOP and a consortium of 29 academic and industrial partners, the project will be researched and developed within 36 months.
This project has received funding from the ECSEL Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No 877056. The JU receives support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and Spain, Italy, Austria, Germany, Finland, Switzerland. Additional support at national level from VDI/ VDE-IT has given our company the opportunity to research and apply innovation in intralogistics.

FRACTAL or "Cognitive Fractal and Secure Edge Based On Unique Open-Safe-Reliable-Low Power Hardware Platform Node" chooses an alternative approach compared to the well-known cloud computing and aims to perform critical computations, in a timely and energy-efficient manner, through hardware nodes. The cloud infrastructure is used only for data ingestion and storage. Occasional offline data processing to improve predictions and non-critical computing capacities shall support the hardware node. BEEWEN Automation GmbH will demonstrate this technology in a use case. Using AI, a swarm intelligence in a shuttle system shall provide an optimal environment for high throughput and safety.