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The world's first omlox test laboratory was accredited at the Fraunhofer Institute in Lemgo in November 2023. This means that Lemgo meets all the technical and organizational requirements and has the expertise to test an omlox component for conformity to the standard. The accreditation was granted by the PROFIBUS user organization. Fraunhofer would like to use the future scientific findings of the test laboratory for the further technological development of the standard in order to sustainably strengthen Germany and Europe as technology locations.

Lemgo, 06.06.2023 -The very first omlox Plugfest recently took place and provided a platform for networking, professional exchange and collegial collaboration. The Plugfest was organized to test the compatibility and interoperability of omlox V2, an open standard for UWB-indoor localization in an industrial context.

(Lemgo / Aurich) One of Germany's largest manufacturers of wind turbines, ENERCON, has joined forces with Fraunhofer IOSB-INA in Lemgo to develop a groundbreaking innovation for wind turbine (WTG) control: The new ultra-high-speed communication system has now been successfully implemented and tested at the end of 2022 at the Staphorst wind farm in the Netherlands in a model type E-138 EP3 wind turbine with a rotor diameter of 138 meters and a rated power of 4.26 MW. The new technology improves the control of so-called feed-in converters. With the increasing number of regenerative energy sources, powerful feed-in converters play a central role. Thus, the new Fraunhofer technology is an important building block for a robust energy grid of the future. The system makes it possible to control the active and reactive power feed-in of wind turbines into the energy grid in real time and more precisely than ever before, enabling potential for greater efficiency.