Do the eco-check!

Services from Hub II: Energy-saving communication infrastructures

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We examine your products from the ICT sector, assist with the eco-balancing of the systems and develop proposals for CO2e footprint reduction. If you would like to have your product checked free of charge, you can apply for a validation project with us.

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Services:

  • Provision of the use of various measuring stations 
  • Development and testing of algorithms to optimize energy consumption 
  • Characterization of systems and components 
  • Data acquisition on the energy consumption of components, subsystems and overall installations 
  • Conformity, interoperability and performance tests 
  • Digitization, energy-efficient circuits, modules and front ends 

Detailed range of services: download here (pdf)

Areas examined

  • Testbed for 5G network at 3.7 GHz
  • X-Haul wireless: components and links for fronthaul and backhaul up to 300 GHz
  • X-Haul optical: Optical links and transceivers

Focus topics

  • Testing of hardware and software components in the 5G test field and evaluation of 5G/6G subsystems and individual components with regard to energy consumption
  • Protocol-based methods for load-adaptive control of mobile networks
  • Digitalized MIMO-TRx
  • Energy-efficient antenna subsystems for 5G mm-waves
  • MIMO modules with OTA interfaces up to 67 GHz / up to 270 GHz
  • Radio link 60 GHz - P2mP
  • D-band links for fronthaul/backhaul - SiGe MIMO system and InP/Si system for long-range links
  • H-band measuring systems: components and testbed
  • Optical systems laboratory
  • LiFi / TSN
  • Radio-over-fiber systems
  • Digital EO transceiver
  • Grid planning

Application form

    Company name and address

    Company website

    Contact person

    Contact person email

    Contact person phone number

    Please describe in a few words what makes your solution special.

    To which subject area of energy-saving communication infrastructures would you assign your request? (multiple answers possible)

    5G testbedDigitalized MIMO transceiversmm-wave MIMO transceiverBroadband links between 30 and 300 GHzOptical systems laboratoryLiFi / TSNRadio-over-fiber systemsDigital EO transceiverGrid planning

    Would you like to use our equipment park for your proposal?

    YesNo, implementation in own company environment

    Can you already name the fields of application that you are addressing with your solution?

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    Allgemeine Leistungen von Green ICT @ FMD:

    • Know-how transfer in the creation of life cycle inventory models, life cycle assessments and calculations of the carbon footprint of products and processes
    • Advice on more environmentally sustainable components and systems for sensor edge cloud applications and communication infrastructures 
    • More environmentally friendly manufacturing processes for microelectronic components through material substitution and energy savings in clean rooms 
    • Provision and plausibility checks for life cycle assessment data sets from the above-mentioned areas