diff --git a/FlippR-Driver/src/input/InputDriverFactory.hpp b/FlippR-Driver/src/input/InputDriverFactory.hpp
index e843f33..05cf0fd 100644
--- a/FlippR-Driver/src/input/InputDriverFactory.hpp
+++ b/FlippR-Driver/src/input/InputDriverFactory.hpp
@@ -13,12 +13,16 @@
 #include "Detector.h"
 
 #include "../utilities/InputGPIOInterface.h"
+#include "../utilities/config.h"
 #include "../lib/json/json.hpp"
 #include "../lib/easylogging/easylogging++.h"
 #include "EventNotifier.h"
 
 using namespace nlohmann;
 
+
+INITIALIZE_EASYLOGGINGPP
+
 namespace Input
 {
 class InputFactory
@@ -57,7 +61,13 @@ private:
 
   static void ConfigureLogger()
   {
+    el::Loggers::getLogger(INPUT_LOGGER);
 
+    //TODO may configure?
+    el::Configurations defaultConf;
+    defaultConf.setToDefault();
+
+    el::Loggers::reconfigureLogger(INPUT_LOGGER,defaultConf);
   }
 
 };
diff --git a/FlippR-Driver/src/utilities/config.h b/FlippR-Driver/src/utilities/config.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4979a97
--- /dev/null
+++ b/FlippR-Driver/src/utilities/config.h
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+/*
+ * BlockingQueue.hpp
+ *
+ *  Created on: May 17, 2018
+ *      Author: Andreas Schneider, Johannes Wendel, Jonas Zeunert, Rafael Vinci, Dr. Franca Rupprecht
+ */
+
+#define INPUT_LOGGER "input_logger"