But the NASA Lewis Research Center is offering the technology free to anyone who wants it. Using various Internet programming languages, the technology allows scientists to remotely control and monitor experiments on space stations. Mr. York said that software easily can be applied elsewhere. Corporations can control equipment and machinery in remote manufacturing plants.
Landlords can monitor the heat and electricity use of office buildings miles away.
Stores and museums can control cameras to view special merchandise or displays. We'd be glad to set someone up in business with this kind of thing, to have people come in, look at the technology, license it to them and let them go ahead and build a business. Next month Mr. York and other NASA Lewis officials will host a special workshop at an adjacent facility in Brook Park to explain the technology. The agency will charge a workshop fee to cover its expenses, but it generates no additional profit to commercialize the technologies. It's something we should be doing.