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Updates from the work itself.
New releases, research, field notes, and open-source milestones from the Starwit team.
TRACE advances to the final round of the EU AI-BOOST
ChallengeTogether with Aalen University, Starwit is one of five teams
that advance to the final round of Challenge 4 of the European AI-BOOST Challenge. Our joint project TRACE
combines human-controlled AI with camera-based traffic detection to generate test cases for autonomous driving
from crash data and safety standards.Read update 
Starwit at the WirtschaftsDienst Forum: Smart ways to
better trafficOn August 31, 2026, the 35th WirtschaftsDienst Forum
„Smarte Wege: Wie digitale Lösungen Verkehr besser machen“ took place at the Lower Saxony Ministry for
Economic Affairs, Transport and Building in Hannover. Its central question: which digital traffic solutions
should be scaled in Lower Saxony right now? Anett Hübner, managing director of Starwit Technologies, was one
of five speakers giving a short talk, followed by a panel discussion with all speakers.Read update 
Traffic statistics with DAVe: our talk at FrOSCon
2026On August 15, 2026, Anett Hübner presented DAVe at FrOSCon, the Free
and Open Source Software Conference. Her talk „Verkehrsstatistiken mit DAVe“ showed what the open-source
traffic count platform does, how it went from Munich to Wolfsburg, and how cities can build a DAVe community
together. The recording is online.Read update 
DAVe rollout in WolfsburgThe Starwit team is proud to announce, that Wolfsburg is the first user of DAVe outside
of Munich. With DAVe Wolfsburg has a now proven analysis and visualization tool for traffic data. Developed
and open sourced by the city of Munich, DAVe now collects live data from Starwit’s various object detectors in
Wolfsburg. With Starwit Awareness Engine , Observatory Stack and DAVe Wolfsburg now runs a powerful software
pack, to get a detailed traffic model.Read update 
AI Cockpit at the GTP conference 2026 in
DinslakenOn March 14, 2026, Markus Zarbock presented AI Cockpit at the
44th annual conference of GTP, the German Society for Tropical Paediatrics and International Child Health, in
Dinslaken. In his talk „AI and EU Act – How to set borders to an unimaginable technique“ he showed how humans
can check the decisions of AI systems, and why open source is a good way forward.Read update Progress on Multi-Camera trackingWhen observing a situation with multiple cameras, it is necessary to map objects in a
way, such that the same object observed by multiple cameras, is recognized as one object. So some mathematical
magic is needed, that transforms coordinates and matches objects. The following video shows one of the test
grounds, that Starwit can use to develop those mathematical components. Once again many thanks go to the city
of Carmel, Indiana for being a wonderful innovation hub – a true partnership for tomorrow!Read update 
Starwit joins AI cockpit federal research
projectWith AI systems becoming more and more complex and taking over
decisions with impactful consequences, putting humans in command becomes more important than ever. Explaining
how systems work, which AI methods they use and most importantly how they make decisions is a key challenge to
address. Only if this is done successfully, humans can truly control and command complex AI system – and can
intervene adequately if necessary.Read update 
Education & Training RepositoriesProper education and training is the foundation of any successful technical product
development. Our team is constantly growing skills and knowledge of everyone and thus training material is an
inevitable result. As we believe in open source, example code and support material is published on Github
under https://github.com/starwit-trainings/Read update Geo mapping feature addedStarwit’s Awarenes Engine (SAE) just got a new feature. Detected and tracked objects
can now be mapped to geo-referenceable coordinates. This means, that any detected movement can now be placed
on a map.Read update 
SmartParkingConfig open-sourcedAnother part of Starwit’s product offering was published as open source.
SmartParkingConfig or SPC is a tool, with which one can define observation areas. Those can be send to
Starwit’s Awareness Engine and will then start observing how many objects are present in a certain region or
crossing a defined threshold. A first use case of this tool, is collect data to manage parking spaces for
vehicles. However many other use cases are possible so stay tuned!Read update
Starwit Awareness engine at HackHPI 2024At this year’s installment of HackHPI Starwit awareness engine (SAE) was used for one
challange track. HPI – Hasso-Plattner-Institute does every year a hackathon challange, that provides
opportunities for students to work on data and solutions from sponsoring businesses. Within (literal) 24 hours
19 teams worked intensively together to build prototypes. Supported by mentors (Anett, Florian and Markus from
Starwit) and lots of sweets it was an amazing experience, what is possible to develop so quickly.Read update Collaboration with Intel and Wolfsburg
strengthenedWith #Wolfsburg as home base Starwit builds #AI #software
for smarter cities. Strong partners are a vital ingredient for success. So we are proud to be part of #Intel
‘s #Liftoff program and have the city of Wolfsburg as a strong supporter.Read
update Starwit joins AI-Cockpit research
projectComplex software systems, that use AI components are hard to
understand and it can be difficult to explain how they work. As those systems are becoming more and more part
of everyone’s life, explaining how they work and how they make decisions will be essential, to keep humans in
control.Read update AI Solutions for Smart Cities – podcast with
IntelIntel’s Tony Mongkolsmai did a podcast with Florian and Markus from
Starwit and talked about AI, our open source software and how all of that has the potential to revolutionize
traffic in smarter cities. Tony does among other things a podcast around latest trends in software development
and AI. Listen to latest episode with Starwit here:
https://codetogether.podbean.com/e/ai-solutions-for-smart-cities/Read update
Slack Channel for Awareness EngineOpen Source is about collaboration and thus staying in touch with everyone, using
Starwit’s Awareness Engine very important. With some research projects already using SAE for algorithmic
development exchange on latest additions, bugs and ideas is now spanning multiple countries and
continents.Read update 
Starwit Awareness Engine releasedComputer vision is still an area of great innovation and many yet unexplored
applications. So bundling necessary components to run an image stream analyzing engine is still very handy. To
address this need, software development team at Starwit released Starwit’s Awareness Engine (SAE) as open
source. It is a engine that combines image/video capturing, object detection, object and time series based
data storage.Read update 
A new Version of ProjectBuilder releasedA New Version of ProjectBuilder has been released. ProjectBuilder is an OpenSource
Project to develop new web applications based on Domain Driven approach and templates (see code and
documentation on GitHub). Hence, the project kick-off can be done in minutes. You can log in via LinkedIn and
see example project definitions in our demo environment .Read update 
Visiting WeAreDevelopers: The first DayWeAreDevelopers was the first really big conference and event after Lockdowns. It
started with a train ride from Wolfsburg to Berlin. Having worked in Berlin for a project, I actually missed
going to the ICE Restaurant, drinking coffee and starting programming or reading a magazine. And I love that
this train generally is too early (or punctual).Read update