The 1 st IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Systems within the Conferences on Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems 20-21 September 2012, Offenburg, Germany Mobile Transfer of Wireless Technologies Matthias Prellwitz 1 , Eileen K¨ uhn 2 , Prof. Dr. J¨ urgen Sieck 3 1, 2, 3 Hochschule f¨ ur Technik und Wirtschaft (HTW) Berlin [University of Applied Sciences], Department 4, INKA Research Group, Wilhelminenhofstr. 75a 12459 Berlin Germany, {matthias.prellwitz, eileen.kuehn, j.sieck}@htw-berlin.de, http://inka.htw-berlin.de/ Abstract – Wireless technologies and applications are still undergoing rapid development. To promote new standards and scenarios to particularly small and medium-sized businesses (SME) and to boost the regional economy, a mobile transfer centre is used to transfer expertise, demonstrating wireless technologies and applications at a potential customer’s site. Keywords – technology transfer; regional marketing; wireless hardware components; wireless applications I. I NTRODUCTION Stimulating wireless activities in the Berlin-Brandenburg region and connecting local research and business part- ners in this field was the original aspiration of the Berlin Senate whilst facilitating ”Berliner Wireless Transfer- und Entwicklungs-Center (BeWiTEC)” [Berlin Wireless Transfer and Development Centre] [2]. BeWiTEC is acting multi- faceted by utilizing multiple channels to publicize regional wireless development activities and to link wireless technolo- gies to companies. II. TRANSFER OPPORTUNITES Businesses need to allocate a considerable amount of funds to advertise their market-ready product to potential buyers. Generally, larger companies find it easier done to invest the necessary money and receive the attention required than small and medium-sized enterprises (SME), which often struggle to establish new products where the technology used is not current at a sonsumer site or ongoing applications are difficult to impart. Scientific results of universities or research institutions are predominantly published at academic events such as conferences where the audience generally consists of fellow researchers or representatives of larger businesses due to travel and fee expenses. Conference proceedings of presented papers are available, often against a fee, either printed or online via a chosen publisher. Research projects, whether publicly or privately funded, are mutually benefitial to both research institutions and BeWiTEC project hosted by the Information and Communication Appli- cations (INKA) [1] research group is gratefully funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Berlin state initiative ”Projekt Zukunft”. enterprises, as scientific knowledge of emergent or well- established technologies is combined with customer needs and the ability to apply the research directly and therefore to transform the outcome into a market-ready product. Promoting the knowledge within a specific area can be further encouraged by setting up a competence centre where a dedicated group focuses on creating and enhancing a network which targets the exchange of knowledge between universities, research institutions, enterprises, high schools, and politics. This can be undertaken through hosting or attending conferences or trade fairs, delivering workshops or training sessions, and providing a field-orientated knowledge base addressing different levels of consumer experiences and requirements. III. TRANSFER AT BEWI TEC PROJECT Besides the generic aspects described in the previous sec- tion, BeWiTEC offers extended science transfer by delivering workshops to the general public, advising on student thesises, and in particular by providing online, stationary, and mobile resources for knowledge transfer: A. Workshops The computer labs of the applied computer science study programme at HTW Berlin have been utilized to provide an modern infrastructure to workshop participants in order to deliver technical fundamentals as well as hands-on sessions by implementing simple applications according to a work- shop topic. To date these have covered: RFID - scenarios, standards, protocols, hardware; Deepening OpenBeacon and OpenPCD2 RFID hardware; Introduction and programming mobile applications (Location-based services, iOS, Android). B. Knowledge base The knowledge gathered by project participants and asso- ciated professors through their business contacts and research projects must be published publicly showcasing regional wireless expertise of companies and research institutes. To ensure reusability of the open and free data as well as preservation of the knowledge base beyond the project pe- riod, no own web-based application has been implemented. 978-1-4673-4679-5/12/$31.00 ©2012 IEEE 43