Press releases

The Fraunhofer-inHaus-Center will be cooperating with the Sonepar Germany GmbH – January 1st was the starting point for the major wholesaler in electronics to become an active partner of the inHaus. Sonepar occupies an important position in the field of smart home technology.

The aim of the Hackathons “hacking female health” in Berlin was to put the individual needs of patients first, develop specific solution approaches together and use the potential of existing Fraunhofer-technologies. Romina Möllmann, PhD student at the Fraunhofer inHaus-Center also participated and this with great success.

During the InnoHealth Australia initiative 16 Australian researchers accompanied by the involved parties of the German Health Research Center visited the Fraunhofer-inHaus-Center in Duisburg.

"From practice - effectively relieving the clinical routine through digitization" was the motto of the open days at Fraunhofer-inHaus-Center. In a completely new format the unique living labs of the inHaus were opened for visitors and lectures were offered on 17th and 18th October 2018. Partners, users, producers, engineers and developers also came together to exchange ideas.

A fridge that orders food automatically, a mirror that forecasts the weather, or an app that can be used to open the front door while sitting on the couch – those are just a few things in the Fraunhofer inHaus-Center in Duisburg that four senior citizens had to get used to. The public broadcaster ZDF worked with them for the eight days of shooting – now the exciting experiment can be seen on TV.

Glow, speak, vibrate – the interactive therapy ball “ichó” of the Duisburger startup ichó-systems is able to do all of this and even more – and while doing this it helps people suffering from dementia. Now, this young business is the first startup-partner of the FraunhoferinHaus- Center in Duisburg. The cooperation is a gain for everyone involved.

Improving supply quality, relieving hospital staff and using subsidies more efficiently – those are the common goals of Helios university hospital Wuppertal and the Fraunhofer-inHaus-Center in Duisburg. In Realraum Innovations Labor both will be jointly working on solutions for better medical care. Also they support the interaction between science, society and economy as well as small and medium-sized enterprises. This project is just the starting point for further joint activities – and more partners can contribute to Realraum Innovations Labor in the future.

“The inHaus-Center is supposed to become an open forum for ideas and promote practical innovations”, Wolfgang Gröting hopes. He manages the Fraunhofer-inHaus-Center in Duisburg since October 1st 2017 and is especially excited about the cooperation with motivated and creative scientists. Their great amount of know-how holds great potential for innovations, explains Gröting.

With the entry of the Proceram group into the partner network of the Fraunhofer-inHaus-Center with their Cerabran system construction materials , the areas of thermal insulation, functional coatings for buildings and fire protection are going to be steadily further developed in the think tank in Duisburg.

The factor light plays a critical role in well-being – important processes in the body are influenced subconsciously [1]. Using a light cycle (circadian light) that is adapted to the time of day and night, the inner restlessness of dementia patients is supposed to be reduced. In this way they are supposed to find a stabilized sleep-wake cycle. Fraunhofer UMSICHT is researching this property of light in practice with other partners within the scope of the project SILVERlighting.