Grant: Applied Research and Development Grants - Level 2

ZoneTI Inc. is a Quebec company offering a wide range of products and services in all areas of IT management. Its service offerings include massive data hosting on state-of-the-art servers, IT security, managed services, network infrastructure, technological innovation and strategic coaching. The management of these services increasingly uses artificial intelligence as a tool for predictive maintenance, analysis and interpretation of hosted data. In this context, ZoneTI Inc. wants to develop and validate an artificial intelligence code for the massive compression of digital data (video in particular) hosted in its data centers. This code represents an innovative technological product and service for ZoneTI. It consists of an artificial intelligence algorithm for massive compression of digital data based on a correlation and spatio-temporal aggregation algorithm. This development follows studies carried out in 2019 on this subject (a SEP) in collaboration with C2T3. This project aims to support, with a view to increasing competitiveness and productivity, job creation and sustainable development, investment projects carried out in Quebec by ZoneTI Inc. For ZoneTI, this project is of great importance as it will allow the development of an innovative product and service that can be deployed on a hundred Petabytes over a 5-year period and to capture a potential market of several Exabytes over a 10-year period with jobs in Canada.