Reference number : GC-2017-Q2-00403, amendment number : , agreement type : G, recipient legal name : Nikolaidis, Ioanis (University of Alberta), recipient country : CA, recipient province : nan, recipient city : Alberta, recipient postal code : nan, program name english : Engage Grants for Universities, program name french : Subventions d'engagement partenarial pour les universités, program purpose english : Latium Fleet Management Inc. (http://latiumfleet.com) is a two decades old Edmonton-based company,_x000D_
offering a variety of fleet-asset services. The Latium platform includes a number of tools that enable the_x000D_
company's clients to improve the efficiency of their operations, to better plan maintenance tasks, and, more_x000D_
importantly, to enhance the safety of their vehicle and asset fleets._x000D_
The biggest challenge currently facing Latium's ability to expand their client base and their services is the fact_x000D_
that the company employ difficult and expensive to manufacture proprietary hardware devices, which suffer_x000D_
from limited (wireless) communication capacity, which, in turn, implies that only a fraction of the acquired_x000D_
data is communicated to the back-end for analytics._x000D_
The proposed project will, first, remove the reliance on proprietary hardware, and, second, enable flexible_x000D_
communication capabilities. The enabler of communication flexibility that will be added is device-to-device_x000D_
peer-to-peer communication between on-board-units (OBUs) of vehicles of the same fleet. Hence, a_x000D_
higher-throughput high-latency but inexpensive means of communication will be added to the low-throughput_x000D_
low-delay but costly communication via cellular/satellite providers. As a result, vehicles will be endowed with_x000D_
the ability (a) to perform urgent analysis on-board in real-time, and (b) to deliver fine-grained data to the_x000D_
Latium platform back-end for fleet-level analytics., program purpose french : Latium Fleet Management Inc. (http://latiumfleet.com) is a two decades old Edmonton-based company,_x000D_
offering a variety of fleet-asset services. The Latium platform includes a number of tools that enable the_x000D_
company's clients to improve the efficiency of their operations, to better plan maintenance tasks, and, more_x000D_
importantly, to enhance the safety of their vehicle and asset fleets._x000D_
The biggest challenge currently facing Latium's ability to expand their client base and their services is the fact_x000D_
that the company employ difficult and expensive to manufacture proprietary hardware devices, which suffer_x000D_
from limited (wireless) communication capacity, which, in turn, implies that only a fraction of the acquired_x000D_
data is communicated to the back-end for analytics._x000D_
The proposed project will, first, remove the reliance on proprietary hardware, and, second, enable flexible_x000D_
communication capabilities. The enabler of communication flexibility that will be added is device-to-device_x000D_
peer-to-peer communication between on-board-units (OBUs) of vehicles of the same fleet. Hence, a_x000D_
higher-throughput high-latency but inexpensive means of communication will be added to the low-throughput_x000D_
low-delay but costly communication via cellular/satellite providers. As a result, vehicles will be endowed with_x000D_
the ability (a) to perform urgent analysis on-board in real-time, and (b) to deliver fine-grained data to the_x000D_
Latium platform back-end for fleet-level analytics., agreement title english : Enhancing fleet management services via device-to-device communication, agreement title french : Enhancing fleet management services via device-to-device communication, agreement number : EGP, agreement value : 24550.0, agreement start date : 2017-08-23, agreement end date : nan, description english : nan, description french : nan, expected results english : nan, expected results french : nan, additional information english : Grant or Award spanning more than one fiscal year (2017-2018 to 2018-2019)., additional information french : Subvention ou bourse octroyée s'appliquant à plus d'un exercice financier (2017-2018 à 2018-2019)., owner organization : nserc-crsng, owner organization title : Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada