Technology transfer provides area companies with innovative technologies and facilitates the solutions to real-world, commercial problems by Glenn scientists and engineers. The resulting benefit is the advancement or creation of products, processes, and services. Using various programming languages, the technology allows scientists to remotely control and monitor experiments on space missions, including those on the International Space Station. A wide variety of commercial applications for this technology are being realized. Companies can control equipment and machinery in remote manufacturing plants by connecting their machines to the Internet and feeding data directly into databases and analysis programs.
Landlords can monitor the heat and use of office buildings from miles away.
Stores and museums can control cameras to view special merchandise or displays. Among the benefits of this technology is the ability to improve products and services and to integrate production equipment with other corporate systems. NASA has been involved in the development and commercial transfer of many of the revolutionary and evolutionary technologies that define this century. Glenn has helped hundreds of companies turn high-tech research into marketable products, and Glenn's CTO serves as the hub for making these achievements possible. Director Donald J. Campbell, head of the Glenn Research Center, has been recognized for his outstanding efforts in transferring NASA technology.