Grant: Applied Research and Development Grants - Level 1

Camosun College is pleased to be announcing that the Sport Innovation Centre and Camosun Applied Researchand Innovation (CARI) will be partnering with Vigil Health Solutions Inc., a Victoria BC company whichoffers a proprietary technology platform that combines software and hardware, to provide comprehensivesolutions to the expanding aged care market, on a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council's(NSERC) Applied Research Development (ARD) grant.Camosun College offers over 160 degree, diploma and other credential programs to more than 10,000 full-time,and another 3,000 part-time, students in beautiful Victoria, BC. The college has educated and prepared morethan 50,000 graduates to excel in the marketplace in its 40-year history, and has an annual local economicimpact of $816.6 million.CARI is starting an exciting new applied research partnership with Vigil Health Solutions Inc., to create a newhighly wearable wrist device which will allow seniors to seek rapid response when they are having a medicalemergency. This project will lead to improved security and safety for elder Canadians, as well as theircaregivers, by creating a more accepted call device incorporating a location technology that covers communityareas in concert with Vigil's existing emergency call and staff duress features. Allowing elders to live anindependent life, while providing quick responses to both requested and required urgent and chronic care needsreduces the hospitalization costs associated with delayed care.This opportunity will provide a Camosun mechanical engineering technology student the opportunity toparticipate in an industrial engineering design applied research project.