IT laboratories of the FHV
State-of-the-art IT infrastructure for study and practice
The IT laboratories are equipped to the highest standards and are open to students and, in some cases, engineers from industry.
Various software installations and virtual database servers as well as workstations and laptop workstations provide you with an ideal learning environment. As a student, you have free access to technical laboratories - seven days a week for 24 hours!
Network Laboratory
The network laboratory offers you an experimental environment with different operating systems, routers, switches and a high flexibility in the area of couplings, where you can gain experience with these modern technologies. This will prepare you well for real-life situations in Business and Management. Open source software and insights into their development processes will enhance your understanding of modern software and software development processes. In the context of e.g. bachelor's theses, you can also create contributions for the communities yourself.
Database Laboratory
Data and its processing play a central role in many areas of modern business life. The modeling, organization, keeping and security, etc. of data are essential core issues. Increasingly, the holding and processing of data is being virtualized and outsourced to the cloud. Various virtual servers and cloud providers are available at the FHV.
Software Engineering Laboratory
The software engineering laboratory is specially designed for the requirements of software engineering with work islands with a central screen and laptop workstations. Sufficient flipcharts and pinboards can be used by you, especially for agile software development processes.
Various software installations and virtual database servers as well as workstations and laptop workstations provide you with an ideal working environment.
Laboratory for Autonomous Systems
In the Laboratory for Autonomous Systems, students work on the development and networking of intelligent technical systems, such as robots, drones and autonomous transport systems. The laboratory is equipped with modern embedded system platforms, including ARM and RISC-V boards, a wide range of sensors and actuators, as well as a Home Assistant environment for home automation applications.
Through practice-oriented projects, students learn how to work with hardware and software components, communication protocols and programming languages, as well as how these elements interact in networked systems. The focus is on applying modern software engineering methods to the development of innovative low-level and autonomous systems.
Virtual Reality Laboratory
The Virtual Reality (VR) laboratory is equipped with hardware and software for creating and viewing or "walking" virtual scenes. Various state-of-the-art devices and tools are available for this purpose, for example, very different input devices (Microsoft Kinect, Myo wristband, haptic devices, Leap Motion, eye trackers, a magnetic as well as an optical motion capture system, etc.). For output, various (auto-)stereoscopic displays, head-mounted displays (from Oculus Rift) and 3D printers are available. The developments are based on game and VR engines (including Unity) and 3D computer animation systems (including Autodesk Maya).