Grants and Contributions

The Project will support development of intellectual property capacity within the Firm.

This project is aimed to develop innovative space- and resource-efficient, "Zero-touch" lean vertical farm.

Canada's size and weather causes many older Canadians Aging in Place to drive. Aging brings natural and illness-related health declines making mature drivers at risk for driving accidents. Furthermore, unplanned driving cessation causes isolation, leading to increased risk of dementia, poorer physical and mental health, and reduced ability to engage in social, physical activities. The SENSE-MD project aims to provide a solution for a key missing element in the current driver assessment regime: knowledge of changes in risk and driving capacity based on valuable data from onboard vehicle sensors. Clinical assessments are infrequent and only indirectly measure driving skills, increasing risks for premature driving cessation and isolation. The SENSE-MD project addresses the NRC Connection Pillar offering a technology-based solution that delivers information, based on a communication model, regarding changes in driver risk to the mature Canadian drivers, their family, and caregivers, while keeping the driver central to information sharing.

This project will help the Firm perform Due Diligence and create a Data Room as a part of the SheBoot program.

AERIUM’s RoBird® ornithopter is a high-tech example of biomimicry which has been established as an important tool in the field of Wildlife Management at airports, mining facilities, and other sites where wild birds are susceptible to injury and death simply by being in the wrong place. The current state of RoBird® production is such that many processes are completed by hand in a time consuming and expensive process. The goal of this project is to acquire both expertise and design services that will allow AERIUM to scale and automate production processes, growing RoBird® manufacturing from approximately 20 units per year to more than 60 units per year by the end of the project date, and to hundreds of units per year in 2024.

The Business Innovation project will focus on development of new sales and marketing channels in North American and Spanish-speaking markets to achieve new sales opportunities.

Improve facial state of emotion detection feature currently available on the cubego platform.

The project entails building a cloud-based system, which could enable monitoring and control of various components within a building's structure, such as heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and energy consumption. The primary goal of this type of infrastructure is to improve system efficiency, reduce operating costs, optimize energy consumption and increase safety. A centralized cloud-based platform will bring all of these parts together while providing additional analytics, dashboards and valuable reporting to the building operators.

Surface Solutions Inc. (SSI) will complete its final stage of its product (VentMedic) development and design prior to commercialization. SSI will finalize and validate Software development, prepare its device for CSA approval to allow for Class 1 Div. 1 usage, reduce size and weight of the device for better functionality and reduce battery consumption under this project. All these critical improvements will attract the customer better and allow them for a successful product launch in the market.

To encourage scientific research and related scientific activities (e.g. data collection, integration, monitoring, and communication, including communication via conferences and symposia) and dissemination of scientific knowledge in the areas of: (a) Fisheries and Aquaculture Science; (b) Ecosystem Science; (c) Oceanography and Modelling; and (d) Freshwater Science.