Business Models
Platform Navigator: Designing and Implementing Platform Business Models
Today, platform companies like Amazon, Alibaba, Apple and Google dominate our economy. In fact, eight out of the ten most valuable companies worldwide are built upon a [...]
EaaS Navigator
Equipment as a Service (EaaS) is a major paradigm shift for many enterprises in the industrial sector. More and more industrial companies have started to bundle their [...]
IoT Profit Cycle
The IoT Profit Cycle is the result of a multi-year research project together with 31 companies. As a fundamental performance management tool, it transfers the core idea [...]
Monetizing the Internet of Things
Across all industries, smart, connected products are changing the way companies create and capture value. Smart agriculture, smart city, smart manufacturing, smart home, smart health and fitness [...]
IoT Business Models
Our research provides theoretically and practically grounded assistance to companies that are today engaged primarily in non‐digital industries in the development and implementation of business models [...]
IoT Revenue Models
More and more companies recognize the Internet of Things (IoT) as a game changer within their industries. The IoT represents the vision that every object [...]
IoT Organization
In light of emerging digital technologies, executives across industries are challenged to rethink current business models, including their companies’ organizational structures. To meet future customer [...]
Connected Mobility
DRIVE: In-Vehicle Drunk Driving Detection
Driving under the influence of alcohol is among the most relevant reasons for deaths or severe injuries in public road traffic. The main problem with driving under [...]
HEADWIND: A Vehicle Hypoglycemia Warning System in Diabetes
Diabetes mellitus and its associated complications represent an important challenge to society and the health care systems globally. It is estimated that in 2021 537 million adults [...]
ARNE: In-Vehicle Affect Recognition and Regulation
In recent years, there has been a massive increase in the number of people affected by mental health issues. Over the last decade, major depressive [...]
Accident hotspot prediction and warning
Despite continuous investment in road and vehicle safety, as well as improvements in technology standards, the total amount of road traffic accidents has been increasing over the [...]
Eco-Driving Information Systems
Almost 17% of the worldwide CO2-emissions can be ascribed to road transportation. Using information systems (IS)-enabled feedback has shown to be very efficient in promoting a less [...]
Personalized Mobility
In an ever-more digitalised world, the effortless and secure identification of a person has become a key enabler of many new products, services and business models. [...]
E-Bike Business Model
New German tax legislation puts a new spin on establishing the eBike as a central means of transportation: Company eBikes are treated the same as company [...]
Digital Biomarkers
RADAR: Wearable-Based Dysglycemia Detection and Warning in Diabetes
Diabetes mellitus affects approximately 537 million people worldwide, and a doubling of cases is expected within the next 25 years. The economic burden manifests in yearly expenditures [...]
FLIRT: A Feature Generation Toolkit for Wearable Data
Researchers use wearable sensing data and machine learning (ML) models to predict various health and behavioral outcomes. However, sensor data from commercial wearables are prone to noise, [...]
HYPEX: Hypoglycemia Prediction During and After Exercise
Diabetes mellitus affects approximately 460 million people worldwide, of which type 1 diabetes is estimated to impact 1.1 million children and adolescents under the age of 20 [...]
WAVE: Wearable-based Risk Assessment for COVID-19 inpatients
To provide effective care for COVID-19 inpatients, clinical practitioners need systems that monitor patient health and subsequently allow for risk scoring. Existing approaches for risk scoring in [...]
Bitcoin / Blockchain
Blockchain-based Microgrid
This research project is part of the lighthouse project of the Bundesamt für Energy (Federal Ministry for Energy) ”Quartierstrom” (German for district power). We are building a decentralized [...]
Initial Coin Offerings
Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) are a novel form of funding mechanism that is based on blockchain technology. While ICOs are already the dominating financing paradigm in [...]
Odometer on the Blockchain
Giving people ownership of the data they produce becomes more and more important in times of ever-growing capabilities to collect and analyze data of individuals. [...]
The Impact of Cryptocurrencies on the Internet of Things
The vision of an Internet of Things (IOT), in which every physical object can become part of the Internet is almost 25 years old. Only [...]
Smart Home
Security Light / Comfy
Already today, the Internet eases our everyday life. It helps us to get connected, to work efficiently and to stay informed. Tomorrow, the Internet will make [...]
Smart Individual Room Heating
Large amounts of energy are wasted due to unnecessary space heating in residential buildings, i.e. by heating rooms (or whole dwellings) even though residents do not [...]
Quantified Art
Indoor room-climate influences our everyday life. Regardless, we don´t control our room climate in an effective way, although we would be better off doing so. Quantified [...]