AIoT Lab Heilbronn
The AIoT Lab was set up in 2021 to help validate AIoT-enabled business ideas and do practical research on the key concepts described by the AIoT Framework. The goal of the AIoT Lab is to provide a collaboration platform for testing and validating some of the concepts which we are developing in the AIoT User Group. The primary motivation is to provide smart connected products and solutions that illustrate how the challenges in real world can be overcome. The AIoT Lab Heilbronn is operated by Ferdinand-Steinbeis-Institute at the Research Campus in Heilbronn. This setup ensures access to the academic network in Heilbronn, which can be easily extended to include the greater Stuttgart area and Baden Würtemberg. Technological as well as practical expertise is offered in the duality of research and entrepreneurship in order to create an environment that reflects the AIoT Playbook.
The AIoT Lab is planning to support additional industrial use cases in the digital.industry Working Group. The research focus is on making the creation of AIoT-enabled industrial solutions more efficient and better manageable for industrial users. The lab is also a significant contributor to the digital.auto Working Group. Participants can propose new research topics or initiate micro testbeds. The lab provides AIoT expertise and access to an academic ecosystem.
Demo system and research areas
The AIoT Lab has built an initial demo system which utilizes AI-based ultra sound analysis to detect leakages in pneumatic systems. The goal is to use this platform as a real-world demo to evaluate concepts in the following areas:
- Holistic DevOps: Validation of best practices for an integrated DevOps model which combines cloud, edge and AI
- AI/ML model re-use: how can re-use of existing models be maximized, especially from the point of view of smaller companies with limited R&D capabilities
More details can be found here.
The team successfully demonstrated the first running solution to STACKIT, one of the sponsors:
