Grant: Applied Research and Development Grants - Level 1

Photon ETC Inc. is a Quebec company operating in the design, manufacturing and marketing of optical analysis instruments. In order to make its product and service offers competitive in the recycling and reconditioning of waste from civil and mining engineering structures, PhotonETC wishes to develop wireless telemetry for its hyperspectral camera products. Due to the unfavourable terrain for wireline connections in which recycling and reconditioning of waste takes place, it has become essential for PhotonETC to adopt the wireless telemetry alternative in such environments hostile to wireline communication. Specifically, the company wants to determine possible solutions for the wireless telemetry of hyperspectral images that require a huge bandwidth for the information relay. To be effective on these lands, this telemetry requires a bandwidth of at least 50 Mbps over a range of at least 100 meters, which goes beyond the technical possibilities of Wifi and can generate huge fixed costs if 4G LTE cellular networks are used. As a result, the company is seeking C2T3's expertise in wireless telecommunications and interconnected objects (IoT) in order to develop wireless data transport for PhotonETC cameras on unlicensed networks. For PhotonETC, this project is an important vector of innovation and growth aimed at positioning itself in the materials analysis market for the recycling and reconditioning of waste from civil and mining engineering structures.