APPROACH TO RESEARCH & INNOVATION
Key 2020-2021 Projects
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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
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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
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.
Orest Sushko, Director, B²C Lab
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