Grant: Applied Research and Development Grants - Level 1

Luxsonic Technologies Inc. (Luxsonic) has developed cloud-based practice management software for medicaland veterinary specialist physicians. Luxsonic is planning to validate the full product in the veterinary marketbefore launching it in the human health market. A launch in the human market will require significantlyimproved online security to ensure the safe and secure transmission and storage of medical information.Current team members have a rudimentary capacity in online/network security. Luxsonic has approached theDigital Integration Research Group of Saskatchewan Polytechnic for research and technical development of thesecurity component of this Software as a Service (""SaaS""). This first-time partnership will have direct value toLuxsonic as it will allow the company to improve its security infrastructure. Luxsonic will be beta testing thecurrent version of the software with its first clients in June 2017 and expect to continuously integrateimprovements to SaaS as they are developed during this project. The improvement in the Company's securityarchitecture is crucial as the Company begin a national sales campaign in the last quarter of 2017 since thesecurity of patient information is critical for the success of the Company's product in the medical field.