Grants and Contributions

Broadband project that will improve access to high-speed Internet to 43 households located in 1 community in the region of Toquaht (Macoah 1), British Columbia, using fibre technology.

Broadband project that will improve access to high-speed Internet to 61 households located in 2 communities in the regions of Health Bay (Kwikwasut'inuxw Haxwa'mis and the reserve Gwayasdums 1) and Echo Bay, British Columbia, using fibre technology.

Broadband project that will improve access to high-speed internet to 13 Indigenous households located in one community in the region of Nuchatlaht, British Columbia, using fibre technology.

Expansion of finance team in line with company growth, hired for full time permanent position.

The project aims to address the need to identify threat targets and evaluate appropriate neutralization methods. By addressing these needs, RAPTOR software will be better equipped to protect defended assets against unauthorized drone activity.

With almost $1B in property sales to date, Bode’s scale up strategy further advances its industry first and leading AI enabled platform for buying and selling property online. The project will involve the Customer Success Specialist leveraging key internal systems to further automate listing creation and syndication through AI capabilities while connecting to Bode’s data lake offering key insights to Bode’s large enterprise builder customers and 30,000 Canadian homeowner accounts. This role will also work closely with Bode’s data scientist to ensure the implementation of tools for further enhancements to ensure regulatory compliance.

ReThink Milling Inc (RTM) is developing a set of highly energy efficient grinding machines for the minerals industry. The equipment also has significant scope 2 and 3 Green House Gas emissions benefits that follow from reducing or eliminating the need for the manufacture and transport of consumable steel grinding media that are essential in conventional tumbling mills. This project will increase the fundamental understanding of the breakage mechanisms and efficiency gains in the CAHM, in part by testing more extreme operating conditions (particle size and feed rates). It will also quantify the performance improvements realized from a new liner design for the CAHM prototype.

Blue Sky Analytical Labs provides analytical laboratory services for a variety of clients across Southern Alberta and Canada. In this project, Blue Sky aims to support the emerging controlled substance market through innovation and technology. Several SMEs in the space have expressed interest in working with (or continuing to work with) Blue Sky but require ISO accreditation and specialized testing, including novel method development and validation services. By working side by side with these businesses Blue Sky will provide innovative solutions (i.e., validated methods, research and development, technical expertise, etc.) currently beyond reach (i.e., financially, technically, etc.) to enable the development of novel technologies.

Photonic power converters (PPCs) are part of the receiver unit in opticalwavelength photonic links and power-by-light systems with many modern applications in 5G, internet-of-things, remote power, and more. Systems operating at 1550 nm benefit from the advantageous free space and fibre optic transmission properties at this wavelength. These promise safe and reliable applications in telecommunications and long-distance remote power+data transfer. Multijunction (MJ) PPCs are required to reach the highest power conversion efficiencies. The multiple junctions in these devices simultaneously enable the elevated output voltages that are required for effective and efficient remote power applications. Complementary to MJ device configurations is the nascent trend towards architectures which employ thin-film back-reflector (BR) layers. These designs offer a significant increase in the light-trapping capabilities of the PPC, unlocking higher efficiencies and greatly reducing absorber thickness requirements. The project will develop an artificial intelligence (AI) approach of dimensionality reduction to design elevated-voltage PPC with a backreflector operating at 1550 nm for the first time, enabling combined powerdata long-distance transfer. AI is an essential tool to overcome large parameter spaces in optoelectronics optimization and identify the most promising photonic designs for fabrication. Back-reflector designs allow larger light trapping than traditional upright designs, enabling higher efficiencies and thinner growths more commensurate with high-throughput manufacturing techniques. The project will use methodology and code previously developed for thick upright designs and early back-reflector design trials to design 4- to 10junction PPCs. An independently funded German partner institution will grow and fabricate chips designed within the project. The chips will be tested and validated by NRC and University of Ottawa

Looking to identify a validation co-innovation partners who have lithium sources, mineral rights, and are in the oil and gas, geothermal, or/and mining sectors that are interested in the lithium, energy transition and cleantech market