Innovative Projects Realized

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The adoption of innovative technologies is crucial in today’s business environment – driven by the ongoing pressure to acquire more customers by launching new services in a faster and more convenient way. But adopting new technologies always brings with it a slew of security challenges, making it harder to maintain a secure working environment that provides protection from cyber threats.
For many organizations it’s the security team that is most impacted by this kind of deliberation. When senior management opts to purchase new technologies, it is the security operations team that must find ways to monitor, identify, and intercept any anomalous behaviors or vulnerabilities that could be indicative of a cyber attack.
It’s a moving target – and it’s not the only challenge security teams deal with on a daily basis. There’s also the challenge of a continually changing threat landscape, with new kinds of attacks and different threat actors cropping up daily.
Moreover, the number of alerts that security teams are expected to handle on a daily basis is expected to continue to grow. And the sheer number of alerts leads to “alert fatigue” on the part of security teams, who can’t keep up with the workload.
The answer to this problem lies in leveraging automation, which plays a key role in lightening the load and improves efficiencies and accuracy – providing enrichment from both internal and external sources, the contextual information needed for analysts to identify and prioritize which alerts are high risk and need to be handled first.

Extended-life cold-trap: Zero Point Cryogenics

Zero Point Cryogenics is Canada’s manufacturers of dilution refrigerators, the cryogenic platform for enabling quantum technologies. To advance our product offerings, we need to innovate beyond what is currently offered on the market. Through this Mitacs internship, Zero Point Cryogenics will work with the University of Alberta to develop a new feature for our dilution refrigerators, which we expect to patent and add to our product line.

In-process product inspection with computer vision and artificial intelligence

In this project, we investigate deep-learning-based artificial intelligence technologies for automated in-process part inspection for advanced manufacturing. We will experiment with state-of-the-art computer vision and machine learning technologies, applied to a camera capture of a manufactured product part while the part is being made. In this way, product defects can be detected early, saving time from a human inspector to examine the part manually with a magnifier, enhancing safety and productivity of manufacturing factories in Canada and beyound.

PD Enterprises Ltd. (Micro-Mobility E-Bike Project)

Parkdick Enterprises Ltd. (PDI) under its RYDE brand, will be launching an E-Bike micro-mobility sharing program on Manitoulin Island, Ontario, which is set to launch in Spring 2022. The link to the project details and launch is located here: https://www.manitoulincycling.com/e-bikes/. This will be our inaugural project which uses E-Bikes and docking station technology, where riders can rent an E-Bike at a charging station with a mobile application, and end their ride by reparking at a charging station. The project seeks to solve “last mile” transportation issues, provide greener and healthier transportation alternatives, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and increase tourism initiatives. Given that this is our inaugural project, we require assistance in marketing/business development, and accounting/finance. This is why we plan on hiring a marketing/business development intern to grow awareness of the bike program in Manitoulin, and structure community initiatives that highlight health & safety, as well as an accounting/finance intern that will assist us with tracking payments, setting up wire payments, and provide financial modeling on the success of the program. It is our goal that this inaugural program will grow micro-mobility infrastructure within Canada, grow tourism within Canada, promote a more healthy and active lifestyle, and provide a platform for our organization to work with other organizations/municipalities in the future.

Seleste App Development

Seleste needs to develop an app to integrate with our hardware. For this project we need interns to help us develop this app which includes two major components. First is the React Native app where interns will develop our partner integrations. This includes companies like Be My Eyes and Aira which provide services that we will offer through our glasses. They will also develop integrations with Azure A.I to enable A.I features on our glasses. Our interface is going to be unique from most since our users are visually impaired and it is incredibly important to create an interface that is simple, accessible and easy-to-use with a screen reader. The second part of the app involves enabling our video-calls from the glasses. This will include creating custom libraries to integrate our low-level code into our core app. Both parts of this project will be a core part of Seleste’s IP and value proposition. Successful completion of both parts of this project will allow us to start shipping out our initial pair of glasses and run a successful pilot study.

Multi-scale Feature Pyramid Fusion for Object Detection + Image Space to Vector Space Transformer

This project’s objective is to show the utility of data from passenger cars in developing semi and fully automated driving. The challenge at hand is designing and developing artificial intelligence that can accurately and efficiently filter the most critical driving scenarios detected in a fleet.

Analysis of diseases and bugs in a Farm using AI data and models-VisionBox Inc

VisionBox Inc aims to make farming amiable by providing farmers with easy-to-use technologies to focus on agriculture without worrying about threats from disease or bugs in the farm. We are making an AI application for the farmer to detect all the threats in a traditional farm or greenhouse.

VISIONARY FARM is a platform showing a realistic view of the farm with all the spots having threats and the ability to implement custom and recommended solutions and view their effect in simulation.
The aim of this project with the intern is to analyze the statistical and visual data from the farm and get insights from them.

Homeowner Building Health Platform

This digital design project involves creating a platform that brings building health and wellness resources to homeowners. Healthy Home certification programs are emerging and there are many home builders and developers certified as sustainable contractors.
This tool will allow participants to create homes that are designed to provide clean indoor air and ample natural light and to use safe building materials to ensure comfort and good health, reduce our energy and water consumption, thereby lowering utility bills each month, among other financial benefits. Using the strategies suggested, homeowners can have a net-positive impact on their communities.
The project goal is to support homeowners to feel confident that their homes are also designed, constructed, and operated to be resilient in adverse conditions and are developed with proactive design planning for potential impacts of disease, pollution, catastrophic weather, and other threats to human health
• Health: homes are designed to maximize indoor fresh air and minimize exposure to airborne toxins and pollutants, making it healthier and more comfortable.
• Savings: homes use less energy and water, which means lower utility bills.
• Value: With proper planning, homes can be built for the same cost as non-green homes and could qualify for discounted homeowner’s insurance, tax breaks, and other incentives.
• For better homes, accountability makes a difference. Through a carefully managed, independent, third-party verification system, certification will be an option that affirms the integrity of green building commitments Third-party validation helps guarantee that each project saves energy, water, and other resources, reducing overall environmental impact.

Integration of Technologies for Smart Control of Micro Grids

S2E Company is developing a Smart Community in London, Ontario. This community will have the state of the art sustainable practices in community development. This community will be Net ZERO energy which simply means that it has zero net energy consumption and zero carbon emissions annually, minimize water usage, designed with sustainable storm water management, built electric car ready, emphasis Smart Grid technology and demonstrate a microgrid. Smart grid is a new generation of electrical grids that uses information and communications technology and works in an automated manner to improve the efficiency, reliability, economics, and sustainability of the production and distribution of electricity. Microgrid is a set of interconnected consumers and distributed energy resources that has clear electrical boundaries, can be controlled independently with respect to the main grid and can connect and disconnect from the grid to enable it to operate in both grid-connected or free standing mode.
It is evident that smart/micro grid is the backbone of this Net Zero community. The proposed study, as its objectives have been outlined above, will focus on control practices and schemes related to this micro grid, which at the end, will provide the industry partner with required information both_for_feasibility_study_stage_and_later_on_during_deployment.

Expanding Rapidia’s potential in metal AM

Additive manufacturing is a booming industry and Rapidia is at the cutting edge with the material extrusion + sintering approach. To better position ourselves in the market we need to:
– qualify our output in terms of accuracy and deformation
– prepare future leading software development
– demonstrate the versatile capabilities of the machine
– utilize parts in the machine themselves, showing “building themselves”
– open our eyes to existing blind spots
– set stage for future product development

Innovating Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (Software Development)

Honest Empathy Innovations Inc. aims to build sustainable mental healthcare solutions with groundbreaking development and innovation in machine learning. We plan to build a next-generation machine learning platform that Canadians can access for their mental health with this project. Our solution is supported by the Canadian Mental Health Association, NEXT Canada, and Yukon Government. Our solution research aims to help folks affected by post-traumatic stress disorder and those who encounter anxiety, depression, and OCD daily. According to the Canadian Mental Health Association, By age 40, about 50% of the population will have a mental illness. Two out of three Canadians won’t have access to treatment. This project aims to significantly reduce this statistic by innovating CBT with machine learning.

Développement et optimisation de procédé électrochimique de séquestration du CO2 en phase aqueuse

En 2017, le Québec a émis plus de 78 Mt éq. CO2 et le secteur industriel était responsable d’environ 30 % de ces émissions. Dans le cadre de la lutte aux changements climatiques, le présent projet propose une approche de séquestration de CO2 qui soit complètement innovante, respectueuse de l’environnement, moins coûteuse, efficace et capable de générer des produits d’une haute valeur ajoutée. Il s’agit d’une séquestration électrochimique en phase aqueuse utilisant des électrodes catalytiques. En utilisant de telles électrodes, il sera possible de lixivier et libérer in-situ des ions calcium à partir d’un résidu industriel à valoriser (ex. : scories) et de réduire simultanément le CO2 injecté, tout en générant du carbonate de calcium (CaCO3) de haute pureté, et ce, dans des conditions de température et de pression normales.