Eighteen entrepreneurs being incubated at the IoT hub have, on 27th March 2023 started the first training as one of the services they are poised to get under the IoT and AI Applied Research Results Commercialization through Incubation Hub project.

The IoT and AI Applied Research Results Commercialization through Incubation Hub is a project funded by Research and Innovation Systems for Africa (RISA), a program of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office that aims to strengthen research and innovation ecosystems in Africa.

The project aims at establishing an IoT and AI based applied research incubator/accelerator, which will facilitate the transfer of applied research prototypes and knowledge from IoT lab to market and commercialization through academia industry collaboration.

In his opening remarks, the Principal Investigator of the project Prof. Damien Hanyurwimfura who welcomed all participants who showed interest in this program and urged them to ensure the training provides them with skills which will help them to finetune their prototypes to have a viable business product.

A five-day training will cover, Basics of Embedded programming, IoT Hardware, Digital and Analog Sensors, Sensor interfacing with IoT Hardware among others

Three types of training are expected to be delivered namely the training on AI and IoT prototyping, entrepreneurship and commercialization. The best eight projects will get funding for project prototyping.

Among the participants, there are females and people with disabilities as one of the requirements to have been awarded the grant to run this hub.