Cyber Valley is Europe's largest research cooperation in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) with partners from politics, science, business and society. 

Cyber Valley strengthens research and education in the fields of machine learning, computer vision and robotics as well as the exchange between scientific disciplines. By promoting the exchange between science and industry as well as spin-offs, the technology transfer in this central future field is strengthened. 

Cyber Valley is located in the Stuttgart-Tübingen region and is supported by the state of Baden-Württemberg.

Smart Site Solutions GmbH is a member of the Cyber Valley startup network.

In the KINERA research project, Smart Site Solutions is developing and testing methods for automatically deriving work status and task performance from sensor data from mobile machines. With the results, we are increasing the degree of automation of Smart Site One at various points. Among other things, the methods developed allow tasks assigned to subcontractors to be monitored in a more automated way than was previously possible.

Project partners: Universität Hohenheim; EXA Computing GmbH; Claas Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH; Horsch Maschinen GmbH; VDMA Landtechnik

Funded by Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture in the program "Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture, the Food Chain, Health Nutrition and Rural Areas.".

Together with numerous partners from science and construction practice, the consortium developed and tested a common platform for cross-company, standardized data exchange in large infrastructure projects. Smart Site One integrates into the platform and automatically coordinates the ove

rall scheduling with the detailed scheduling and work progress analysis carried out in SSO. 

The results of the research project were presented to an expert audience from politics, science and industry at a final event.

Project partners: Fraunhofer IESE & ITWM; TU Kaiserslautern; Drees&Sommer; Volvo Construction Equipment; Wayss & Freytag Ingenieurbau; HOCHTIEF ViCon; Science & Innovation Alliance Kaiserslautern  e.V.; CRANIMAX; Wolff & Müller Tief- und Straßenbau

Funded by Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport

The direct successor of the SmartSite research project. The SmartSIte consortium transfered the findings from the research project into operational construction practice in follow-up funding from the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Transport. Today, the "QSBW4.0 Manual" is the basis for the tendering practice of the public sector in Baden-Württemberg.

Project partners: Drees&Sommer, STRABAG, AMMANN, Ceapoint Technologies; Topcon; Jesselle

Ministry of Transport Baden-Württemberg

The vision of the research project was fully autonomous, quality-assured and resource-saving road construction. To this end, fully automated construction machines (rollers & pavers) and fully automated process control (logistics) were developed and tested under practical conditions in the project. The findings were exploited in the follow-up project QSBW4.0. 

Project partners: Drees&Sommer, STRABAG/Züblin, AMMANN, Ceapoint Technologies; Topcon; Universität Hohenheim

Funded by Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climare Action within the program "Autonomy for Industry 4.0".

AutoBauLog used concepts of Distributed Artificial Intelligence and autonomy for the first time to actively control earthworks sites. The research project explored completely new approaches to decentralized decision-making and construction site control and tested them in a scenario with real construction machinery. The research project laid the conceptual foundations for the follow-up project SmartSite in the field of asphalt paving.

Project partners: Universität Hohenheim, Topcon, Drees & Sommer, Züblin, KIT; RIB Information Technologies

Funded by Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climare Action within the program "Autonomics - Autonomous and simulation-based systems for medium-sized companies.