ABSTRACT
Construction industry in general and under the economic situation the German construction sector in particular is suffering from increasing complexity, tight timeschedules and budgets on the one side and decreasing profitability on the other side. This chapter provides an overview on the project and its underlying technology, but is focusing on its specific tasks for mobile applications in the construction sector. From an application viewpoint the project is researching in possible future mobile business scenarios in the construction industry, new mobile applications, mobile usability and acceptability. Quasi the backbone of the MOBIKO-architecture is a mobile middleware which is offering a series of basic mobile services, which can be used by the mobile applications and server-based applications. As the usage of mobile technology is fairly new in the construction sector, at the beginning of the project there were only some vague ideas, in which specific scenarios this industry could really gain benefit from it.
