SPAR Lab: A Research Laboratory To Develop and Assess Smart Process Applications

Source de subvention

Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). Fonds des Leaders

Professeur(e)s impliqués

Résumé

While the technologies for SPAs exist, fundamental questions remain, including: 1) what is the best hardware mix, given a SPA’s processing needs and physical environment, 2) what is the corresponding software architecture, and 3) how to assess the effectiveness of a SPA in achieving the desired outcomes-more sales, better health, etc. To explore these issues, we need a research infrastructure consisting of : 1) an IoT edge computing platform to explore different IoT devices, frameworks, and workloads, 2) a cloud computing infrastructure for our processing needs and our research on cloud computing, and 3) a user experience lab to explore new interaction metaphors and to evaluate the SPAs.