The Industrial Radio Lab Germany (IRLG) researches scientific and technical issues of current and future secure industrial radio communication systems, develops innovations, supports companies in their implementation and ensures the transfer of knowledge for a digitized society through cooperation with economic and political bodies. The IRLG is organized as a network of four distributed research and development laboratories with regional roots in small and medium-sized companies. The regional laboratories (IRLs) provide cooperating companies with resources for joint research and allow companies to efficiently develop demonstrator developments in the field of radio communication. Each laboratory also has its own individual research characteristics.
The IRL Dresden studies the following topics in particular:
- Resilient industrial campus networks
- Real time spectrum sensing & interference monitoring
- Jamming detection & mitigation
- Communication control co-design
- Industrial radio interface design for URLLC
- IoT cross-layer design
- Tactile Internet applications and technologies
The IRL Bremen covers the aspects:
- Interconnection of satellite and terrestrial communications systems
- Artificial intelligence in communications systems
- Co-design of communication and control
- Spectrum monitoring mechanisms
At the IRL Kaiserslautern, the focus lies on:
- Resilient systems
- Coexistence management
- IT and network security
- Verification and certification
- Dependability
- 5G campus networks
- Industrial radio intelligence
The following topics are investigated at the IRL Magdeburg:
- Applications and requirements of water management
- Wireless solutions for the water industry
- Protection against active environmental influences
- Specifications of interference profiles
- Measures for improving robustness
- Coexistence management
