The Meaning of Live of a Digital Twin
Data is the fuel of our modern industry 4.0. Digital Twins are the solution for developing and operating more complex systems and systems of systems. But what is a Digital Twin? We mentioned that term already in our mission posting and now it’s time to dig into this buzzword...
Experts’ Voices: Getting Traction on Geodata
We had the pleasure to talk to two geodata experts in the railway domain about collecting, processing, storing and providing geodata in the railway domain and the specific challenges...
Halloween Special: Constant Change
For Halloween we are opening hell and have and dive deep into the subtle changes of Mother Nature...
Experts’ Voices: Sum – es – est – SUMO – estis – sunt
How often do you get a chance to talk first-hand to the brain behind an established product with worldwide impact? Well, we did and had a great chat with Jakob Erdmann, chief designer, developer, support etc. of the open-source tool Simulation of Urban MObility...
Educating Settlements
In the last years the hype started to make cities smart. Before autonomous driving got popular and after the mobile phones got smart there was the idea to advance the infrastructure of our cities to support mobility and living. Let's check what makes a city smart...
Experts’ Voices: There’s more than 15 Minutes in one Hour
In February 2023 we had the pleasure to talk to Daniel Krajzewicz, researcher at German Aerospace Center (DLR) to take a deep dive into one of his latest research topics: The 15-minute city...
Experts’ voices: Collect, Evaluate, Repeat
Reproducibility of data analyses is a big topic in scientific communities. On March 24th, 2023, we had a chance to talk about this subject with Dr. Markus Konkol, research software engineer at 52°North in Münster...
To Build the Smartest and the most Interoperable Map in/about the World
Recently two announcements caught our attention: TomTom wants to build the smartest map in the world and the Linux Foundation wants to build interoperable open map data. Let’s look behind the scenes...
Have we Already had Enough?
Automotive domain often asks about how much testing is needed to guarantee that the system is good enough. But what about the systems we are using for testing? How good do they have to be? Let’s collect some (philosophical) questions...
Tracking Tracks
We visited the InnoTrans 2022 to get an update about the state of affairs regarding geodata in railway domain...