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The ICICS/TELUS Initiative Sustaining Quality of Life & the Environment An ICICS/TELUS consortium that promotes sustainability while maintaining and improving quality of life.
A new direction for sustainability... • Technology is the key to establishing innovative sustainability solutions • This technology can only be developed from multidisciplinary research, which lies outside industry norms • ICICS offers multidisciplinary expertise needed for such an endeavor • This project is applicable to mainstream living environments, can be easily duplicated and will contribute to our economic growth
The ICICS/TELUS Initiative Sustaining Quality of Life & the Environment Development of smart technologies that are transparent and straightforward, focusing on sustaining high living standards, while enhancing security, energy conservation, multigenerational living spaces, and convenience. This far-reaching project requires expertise from many different disciplines working together as a team, ranging from engineering and architecture to computer science, psychology, medicine, nursing, commerce and other social sciences. ICICS is ideally positioned to harness the necessary expertise as it draws 150 faculty members from 18 departments across 7 faculties. This initiative is unique and will be a demonstration project that supports UBC’s “Campus as a Living Lab� sustainability initiative while meeting the R&D needs of the ICICS/TELUS consortium.
An affordable solution that will be embraced by end-users
ICICS/UBC Engagement Model
Psychology
Sociology & Anthropology
Architecture Comm. & Regional Planning
Nursing Engineering Medicine
Computer Science
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Faculty of Applied Science School of Architecture and LA Faculty of Medicine Faculty of Science Faculty of Arts Sauder School of Business
Reduced health care / wellness costs for the Province
Economic Growth Research / Technology for New Products (IP) Qualified Personnel (M.Sc, Ph.D.)
TELUS Requirements
Innovative Thinking
TELUS/ICICS Engagement Model
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Modular Service Suite and Products that ICICS/TELUS Consortium can Monetize
TELUS PD Marketing TELUS Technology Strategy TELUS Health
Other Consortium Members
Project Showcase A ‘Future Home’ addressing: Seamless technological innovations • Communications • Energy management • Security (data, physical) • Home Automation • Entertainment
Environment (building, surroundings) • Architectural design/aesthetics • Sustainable living spaces for multiple generations • Management • Compliance
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Engineering Computer Science
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Architecture Landscape Architecture Environmental Studies Arts Community & Regional Planning
BUSINESS VIABILITY
Commercial viability ensured by Sauder School of Business
Project Showcase
A ‘Future Home’ addressing: Privacy
• Non-intrusive technology • Personal privacy
Needs of multiple generations • User requirements • “Invisible” technology
Health Care
• Monitoring • Remote provision of health information • Assistive technologies • General wellbeing • Lifestyle Engineering • Sociology • Behavioral Psychology
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Engineering Behavioral Psychology Computer Science Medicine Nursing Human Kinetics Engineering Sociology Behavioral Psychology
BUSINESS VIABILITY
Commercial viability ensured by Sauder School of Business
Research Deliverables
Home Description Framework
• Architectural design, and living spaces for multiple generations • Innovative ways of representing the home, its zones, its networks, and the devices and people in the home
Energy Management of Full Range of Energy Technologies • Management of energy generation • Management of efficient energy conversion • Management of energy consumption • Management of energy storage
Occupant Presence, Activity Framework and Landscape
• Design framework for representing (non)activity and associated scenes in the home and the surrounding landscape
Home Healthcare Framework
• Passive and active tools and methods for monitoring and optimizing the health of the occupants
Research Deliverables
Communications
• In-home networking • Broadband access • Wireless networking • Entertainment and social networking • Virtualization supporting information
Enabling Control and Monitoring Technologies Devices and Sensor Networks for
• Healthy living • Medical care • Energy efficiency
More Consortium members will define areas as they join Deliverables will be equally applicable to both new and existing infrastructure
Strategy It is anticipated that this will be a 3 year initiative • Participating companies will be identified by end of 2011 • Each company will define areas of interest within this project which will be included in the signed agreement • End of 2011 ICICS will organize a meeting at UBC to identify researchers for the entire project • Each company will directly work with several professors and graduate students but ALL consortium members will have access to the entire project • To this end, two workshops will be organized per year as well as several other meetings
A large number of professors and their graduate students will work on this project Consortium members will have access to the entire project through two general meetings and workshops every year
Project Administration ICICS will pursue government funding: • CFI or private developer for new “prototype facility” • NSERC - collaborative grants (e.g., Innovation Frontiers, CRD) • Industry funding matched or more by grants ICICS will prepare both proposals ICICS will provide initial funding (approximately $100,000) ICICS will supervise and administer the entire project (with close collaboration of TELUS and other consortium members) ICICS and Consortium members will explore establishment of a standardization body for the developed technologies
About the Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems (ICICS) ICICS is a unique multidisciplinary research institute at UBC that promotes and conducts multidisciplinary research in advanced technologies systems. With 150 members from 18 departments across 7 faculties, ICICS can harness the talents of researchers from engineering, computer science, medicine, forestry, social science, commerce and arts for important and novel research endeavors. Our strong relationships with industry ensure that these projects are relevant, timely and get transferred to society through commercialization. For more information about ICICS, please visit www.icics.ubc.ca.
About TELUS TELUS (TSX: T, T.A; NYSE: TU) is a leading national telecommunications company in Canada, with $9.8 billion of annual revenue and 12.3 million customer connections including 6.9 million wireless subscribers, 3.3 million wireline network access lines and 1.2 million Internet subscribers and more than 300,000 TELUS TV customers. Led since 2000 by President and CEO Darren Entwistle, TELUS provides a wide range of communications products and services including data, Internet protocol (IP), voice, entertainment and video. In support of our philosophy to give where we live, TELUS, our team members and retirees have contributed $211 million to charitable and not-for-profit organizations and volunteered 3.7 million hours of service to local communities since 2000. Nine TELUS Community Boards across Canada lead TELUS’ local philanthropic initiatives. TELUS was honoured to be named the most outstanding philanthropic corporation globally for 2010 by the Association of Fundraising Professionals, becoming the first Canadian company to receive this prestigious international recognition. For more information about TELUS, please visit www.telus.com. DESIGN & LAYOUT BY INDUSTRY DESIGN www.industrydesign.ca