Communication Systems

Our ambition is to provide our customers with leading-edge technology. We develop solutions that meet your specific needs, covering all stages of the transmission chain. Drawing on our experience and expertise, harnessing state-of-the-art transmission technologies and breakthrough research, we create innovative communication solutions for a variety of applications and industries.

“We make it possible for people and systems to communicate around the world.”

Range of services

The Communication Systems Division researches and develops communication solutions for different industries and applications. The focus is on the following business areas:

 

Automotive

  • Infotainment: software defined radio solutions for DAB/+ and DRM30/+
  • Intelligent connectivity
  • Automotive antenna solutions
 

Artificial Intelligence

  • Embedded machine learning
  • Spiking neural networks
 

Public Safety

  • Test and measurement equipment
  • Antenna solutions
  • SDR transmitter and receiver components
 

Internet of Things

  • Critical IoT
  • Massive IoT
  • IoT antenna solutions
 

Mobile Broadband
Communication

  • Technologies for mobile communications
  • Test environments for 5G
  • SDR transmitter and receiver components
 

Satellite Communication

  • High throughput satellite systems
  • IoT via satellite
  • 5G and 6G satellite integration
  • On-board processing
  • Antenna solutions
  • SDR transmitter and receiver components

News

Press Releases Communication Systems

Please find all press releases from Communication Systems Division in the news section of Fraunhofer IIS.

 

18.4.2024

Fraunhofer IIS opens laboratory in space

 

28.03.2024

Bernhard Niemann is the new Director of the Communication Systems division at Fraunhofer IIS

 

14.9.2023

5G-ECONET project aims to optimize the energy efficiency of campus networks

 

Fraunhofer IIS appointed to the steering board of ESA's NTN Forum

Alexander Hofmann, our expert for 5G/6G non-terrestrial networks (NTN), represents Fraunhofer IIS at European Space Agency’s newly founded NTN Forum.

 

What mobile communications can do to protect the climate

The energy consumption of 5G and 6G networks could increase dramatically in the future. Therefore, a team at Fraunhofer IIS is researching how to give mobile communication networks their own sleep rhythm. It’s called “network energy savings”. But what exactly does that mean?

 

On course for success: satellites in the mobile network

With Release 19 of the 5G standard NTNs are now set to shift into the next gear.

Three things are essential for this: enhanced satellite coverage, cellular base stations on satellites, and seamless handover procedures. We are working on it!

 

Green mobile networks

Ambitious climate goals and rising energy costs are driving the mobile sector's search for greater energy efficiency.

The NGMN publication 'Green Future Networks: A Roadmap to Energy Efficient Mobile Networks,' which we contributed to, provides orientation in the maze of technical possibilities and presents the most important solutions.

Events

 

3.3.–6.3.2025

MWC

Fira Gran Via, Barcelona, Spain

Hall Congress Square, booth CS64

 

Topic: 

Network energy saving

Contact

Bernhard Niemann

Contact Press / Media

Bernhard Niemann

Head of Division Communication Systems

Fraunhofer IIS
Am Wolfsmantel 33
91058 Erlangen, Germany

Phone +49 9131 776-3105

Claudia Wutz

Contact Press / Media

Claudia Wutz

Head of Marketing and Communication, Communication Systems Division

Fraunhofer IIS
Am Wolfsmantel 33
91058 Erlangen, Germany

Phone +49 9131 776-4071