Smart communities
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Smart communities
The NBCC Mobile First Technology initiative (MFTi) started its Smart Communities applied research program in December 2016. The objectives of this program are to develop and support individual projects through a co-creation process with public and private partners to design mobile information and communication technologies (ICT) that help communities, residents, and businesses develop solutions to life-critical needs, including, community resilience, economic and job development, public and active transportation, social innovation, and smart usage of energy, water, and other utilities.
MFTi is interested in the full range of community types: urban, suburban, semi-rural, rural, and remote communities; and particularly in addressing problems that span these different types of communities, such as the delivery of transit, health care, and educational services across multi-community regions. New Brunswick is an ideal setting for multi-community research given the existence of many community types within a relatively small area and the critical need to solve problems that span them.
MFTi is pursuing such solutions with a particular focus on the following topics and technologies:
- 5G,
- mediated reality,
- industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and
- cyber security.
MFTi has already begun working to establish collaborations New Brunswick companies and governmental organizations in pursuit of these objectives. Efforts to date have focused on the development of two projects that are serving as both technical and collaborative stepping-stones to the full establishment of this initiative.
Projects
Research topics
situation awareness, community resilience, cyber security, social innovation, public transit, public works, mediated reality, geospatial systems
Technologies
5G, GPS, Microsoft HoloLens, Web services
