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Key 2020-2021 Projects
Broadcast-Broadband Convergence (B2C): Positioning Canada as a Leader in ATSC 3.0 Adoption and Multisectoral Business Applications
Contributing Partners: Synamedia, Sparx, CEMWorks, Avateq, Pelmorex, Soundplays
Non-contributing partners: Bell Media, NOKIA, Rogers, Advanced Television Systems Committee, Inc., North American Broadcasters Association (NABA), Alticast, Inc., Pearl TV, Keysight Technologies Canada Inc., KatloTech, EdgeGPS, WKAR Public Media, SMPTE Toronto, University of Waterloo—Omar M. Ramahi, FIEEE Professor.
Total Project Value: $4,519,073 (NSERC) & $2,514,781 (CFI Stream 2)
Funding Agency: NSERC & Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI)
Principal Investigator: Orest Sushko
Other Faculty members involved: (in alphabetical order) Faruk Erkmen, Francis Syms, Mihai Albu, Muhammad Alam
Project Synopsis
Humber has received its first NSERC Innovation Enhancement (IE) Build funds to build applied research (AR) and innovation capacity in the Broadcast-Broadband Convergence (B²C) Lab. The Lab will explore multisectoral business applications enabled by the new Advanced Television System Committee (ATSC) 3.0 standard.
Orest Sushko, who has been seconded to ORI, is the visionary and driving force behind the development of Canada’s first BroadcastBroadband Convergence (B²C) Lab at Humber. This Lab explores media broadcast and datacasting applications enabled by the new Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television standard. Brought to fruition through a joint $4.5 million NSERC/CFI Innovation Enhancement Build grant, this project is a historic first for Humber College and a milestone for Humber’s ORI team.
The Lab offers tremendous multidisciplinary research capacity for Humber across all our academic schools. Our talented faculty and students can play a significant role working directly with industry partners to help other industries and sectors beyond television broadcast digitally transform—from autonomous vehicles, and healthcare, to IoT agriculture, mining and more.
Orest Sushko, Director, B²C Lab
As the first R&D Living Lab in North America equipped with both an ATSC 3.0 broadcast ecosystem and a 5G core network, the B²C Lab will uniquely position Humber on both the Canadian and global stage of innovation, supporting interoperability of the 3.0 standard with other global data delivery networks. The core objective of the Lab is to position Canada as a leader in ATSC 3.0 technology, services, and products by advancing the state of experimentation and adoption of the standard by Canadian businesses—providing Canadian businesses with an advantage as the standard is globally adopted.
Orest Sushko, Director, B²C Lab
Humber’s 1st CFI and 1st COI Grant: Leading Innovation in the Internet of Things
Partners: Alphacor Sustainability Solutions Ltd., Avateq Corp., Ecosystem Informatics Inc., Eleven-X Inc., Embedded Sense, Intransigense Corp., Mero Technologies Inc., PUSH Design Inc., Soundpays Inc., Sparx Technology Inc., ThinkData Works Inc., SEW- Eurodrive; Communications and Power Industries Inc. (CPI), SICK International, Sonova International.
Total Project Value: $ 2,855,350.00
Funding Agency: Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI)
Principal Investigator: Neal Mohammad Other Faculty members involved: (in alphabetical order) David Weisz, Dennis Kappen, Faruk Erkmen, Francis Syms, Mihai Albu, Orest Sushko
Project Synopsis
The CFI project, awarded to our Centre of Innovation: Barret CTI, will add state-of-the-art IoT infrastructure to Humber College’s current capacity to deliver a complete end-to-end ecosystem for a full spectrum of collaborators, from local SMEs and entrepreneurs to multimilliondollar corporations. IoT integrates technologies including sensors, communication, data storage, analytics, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and user interface technologies. This presents a clear challenge for companies; rarely do companies, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, have all the resources to build end-to-end IoT solutions.
The Humber’s network of Centres of Innovation (COIs) brings together interdisciplinary teams of faculty, students, and community and industry partners to solve complex, real-world problems, and provide an experiential learning environment for Humber students and prepares them to become the innovative and strategic problem-solvers of tomorrow. The COIs are a key differentiator and support all six faculties, which makes Humber stand apart as a leading polytechnic institution.
In our next Annual Report, we aim to share key accomplishments highlighting our other COIs (including Barrett CTI, CCBI, CIHW, CfE and Social Innovation).
Institute for Design-Driven Analytics
Partners: Embedded Sense, PUSH, Think Data
Total Project Value: $496,760
Funding Agency: NSERC—Entry-Level Innovation Enhancement
Principal Investigator: Ginger Grant
Other Faculty members involved: (in alphabetical order) Ashley Bennington, David Weisz, Orren Johnson
Project Synopsis
The objective of the grant is to establish applied research capacity at Humber College in Design-Driven Analytics (DDA). DDA employs an interdisciplinary approach combining design, business analytics and connected technology to develop competitive advantages for companies. This will be achieved by investigating the relationship between business intelligence and DDA in an environment of emerging new technologies to encourage business innovation across a range of industry sectors.
Automated Aircraft Maintenance Data Processing and Analytics
Partner: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries—Regional Jet, formerly Bombardier Inc. Regional Jet (MHIRJ)
Total Project Value: $441,280 Funding Agency: NSERC
Principal Investigator: Mihai Albu
Other Faculty members involved: (in alphabetical order) Faruk Erkmen, Orren Johnson, Shahdad Shariatmadari
Project Synopsis
This project will address two complementary maintenancerelated needs. The first need is for an Automated Maintenance Data Processing system that will work with maintenance data submitted—in multiple formats and over varying intervals—by aircraft operators (airline companies). The solution can significantly reduce the time and effort required by MHIRJ personnel to administer and maintain the process. The second need is for an Integrated
Analytical Tool that will assist ground maintenance crews in their critical and time-sensitive ‘dispatchability’ decision: ‘go’, ‘go with limitation’ and ‘no go’ in a very narrow window of time between flights, based on real-time operational data from each flight.
The Integrated Analytics Tool’s design will be based upon the same data processing and analytics algorithms developed for Automated Maintenance Data Processing. This will result in more consistent data interpretation, improved efficiency by aircraft maintenance crews, faster turn-around times of aircraft with improved safety. The project will enhance the competitiveness of MIHRJ and establish a stronger collaboration between MHIRJ and Humber College.
