Grants and Contributions

SMPC Technologies is a Vancouver based company which designs and manufacturers products for the Electric Vehicle (EV) industry. The company specializes in high efficiency power electronics utilized on the drive trains of EV and the off-board infrastructure required to power them. SMPC is working towards introducing a new module which would enable the wider deployment of DC Fast Charging infrastructure which has become the bottle neck for exponential EV adoption.

Symboticware has been serving blue chip mining companies including Glencore, Vale, and Newmont for more than a decade with our proprietary telemetry system and patented communication technologies. Over the last 14 years, Symboticware has mastered the art of extracting data from the heavy and light duty vehicles in the industry. This data includes vehicle telemetry, health, and operational data including fuel consumption, emissions, cycle time etc. We have more than 400 hardware systems (Symbot) installed North America. In addition to the ability to extract data from disparate set of vehicles, Symboticware has a large library of vehicle make and models for which our system is simply a plug-and-play. Symboticware complements the data extraction with cutting edge communication technologies including patented store-and-forward that enable the data transfer to a centralized cloud/on-prem server. We recently deployed a new communication technology called Data Muling to extract and transfer data from offshore equipment that don't normally have access to connectivity. Last year, we invested ourselves in finding our purpose. The raison d'etre for Symboticware's existence. We found our purpose in solving the 5 billion tonne CO2 problem. Across the resource industries, mobile equipment produce 5 billion tonne of CO2 every year. We realized that with our proprietary technology and domain expertise we're the best solution for industry's problem. And we have a responsibility to do so.

Headquartered in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada, Visual Defence is a market leader in the implementation of AI and smart cameras for optimizing municipal operations. Developed in partnership with more than 150 cities, Visual Defence’s ROVER AI in-vehicle cameras help cities operate in a sustainable manner, allowing cities to share resources, extend the life of infrastructure, provide public services effectively, keep the roads well maintained and traffic moving, and accomplish more with existing staff levels. Under this project, with the support of SDTC, Visual Defence will work together with Canadian cities representing over one million Canadians to accomplish even more in a smart and sustainable manner.

Provision is software to streamline food safety and QA. It enables clients to build simple digital templates that expedite record-keeping, with automatic schedules, rules, and alerts that increase compliance. All process documentation is centralized in one hub with automatic history and customizable reporting. This makes it faster to complete audits, and easier to analyze process data. Since being founded in 2018, Provision has been adopted for over half the refrigerated food shipped in Canada, and it's now quickly growing across the U.S.

Cyclic Materials has developed a sustainable and scalable recycling technology that recovers rare earth magnets and circulates their valuable critical materials back into the economy, providing a domestic source to the fragile supply chain of these critical minerals. Cyclic Materials is helping the world transition to a more environmentally responsible future by helping businesses recycle, provide the market with a secure and regional supply of critical metals, and do so in an ethical, economic, and sustainable way.

Clear Blue Technologies has built the world’s first Smart Off-Grid technology to delivery ultra-reliable, 100% off-grid, solar power for cell phone towers, Satellite Wi-fi systems, and Smart City infrastructures.  The company’s Pico-Grid and Nano-Grid systems coupled with its Cloud remote management platform uses predictive data analytics to install and operate systems in 37 countries around the world.  Thru its patented weather and energy forecasting, its energy management capabilities and its troubleshooting and remediation tools, Clear Blue’s Smart Off-Grid technology allows customers to ‘cut the cord’ and ditch the gas generator by moving to solar energy systems.

2S Water is developing a sensor system to ensure safe drinking water. Our system will scan the output of water treatment facilities for 105 contaminants identified in federal water guidelines, and provide reports and near real-time data to operators on demand via web-enabled technologies, no matter what the operator’s skill level. Our service will be fully automated and only require annual maintenance. Over the first five years of deployment, the impact of launching this new technology will be the reduction of 13,334 tonnes of CO2e, 349,778,500 m3 of water, 19,265 tonnes of chemicals, and 211,363,645 m3 of tailings water in the first five years of deployment, which represents 117 treatment facilities in Canada and 1118 worldwide, totalling 1235 deployment.

2S Water will help communities protect their water quality by letting operators know immediately when the quality of their water changes or a contaminant intrusion occurs. This will enable communities to better protect the health of their citizens, and improve the environment by allowing their operators to use more precise amounts of chemicals in their water treatment at lower cost.

Ecosystem Informatics Inc. (ESI) fills the critical need around the world for hyper-local emissions and pollution data insights with its smart mobile-sensor units that can be mounted on vehicles. The accuracy of ESI’s technology is comparable to that of lab grade equipment, thanks for ESI’s proprietary Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms. One unit replaces 10 of the competitor’s offering a paradigm shift in environmental monitoring and management. ESI’s technology provides cities and industries much needed insights on air quality for informed decision making thus optimizing their operational efficiency, managing their carbon footprint, and achieving their sustainability objectives.

EMS’s technology addresses the needs of the resource extraction industry by leveraging unique features of soils, to create biogenic minerals to catalyze hydrocarbon destruction. Solar powered and local water sources, allow EMS technology to provide cost-effective, carbon efficient, solutions for industry’s looking to improve their environmental performance. Each EMS technology ecosystem deployed saves 30,000 t of soil, 1,000 kt CO2-equivalents emitted and removes over 300 t of spilled hydrocarbons from the environment.

EMS has partnered with SDTC, to deploy, validate and scale EMS-technology such that EMS’s technology can be used across the world. The SDTC sponsored project will transform EMS technology to a data-based, internet-of-things solution to today’s environmental challenges. In so doing, EMS’s technology will transform how organizations, large and small, manage their environmental liability.

UNICEF estimates that two billion people live in countries where water supply is inadequate and that half the world’s population could be facing water scarcity by 2050. The world increasingly needs affordable, sustainable drinking water supplies at large volumes and is turning to conventional desalination, which is expensive, dirty, and unsustainable.  Almost half the cost of traditional desalination pays for fuel, creating a carbon footprint that is on average 2.0 kg CO2e/m3 of water produced. While the desalination industry uses seawater as an input, it does not take advantage of the immense energy in ocean waves proximal to the input resource. Using wave energy instead of fossil fuels to power desalination plants presents tremendous opportunities to reduce GHG emissions.The project, led by Oneka Technologies, aims to scale up its wave-powered desalination buoys to utility-scale units, called “Glaciers”. The project will allow Oneka and its partners to deploy their redesigned hull & structure, design and deploy seabed anchoring approaches adapted to Glacier class buoys and develop operational and maintenance innovations at scale while serving as a platform to gather real-time operational data and market the technology to utility-scale users. The project will also allow the team to cost-engineer Glacier for competitiveness with the conventional desalination industry at any scale, consuming zero fossil fuels, producing zero operational emissions and using no land.