eThor Media Ltd: federal grants and contributions: 7 agreements; $1.1M value; 2 departments; 3 programs.
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Support for Ethor Media Ltd. to continue operations during the COVID-19 pandemic
eThor plans to invest heavily into R&D work around the data the company has access to in merchant point of sale (POS) systems. One of the most difficult aspects of this is that there's no set standard when it comes to syntax or naming of items. Even within a single chain with the exact same menu and exact same POS system, one item could be named a variety of different ways. This makes it extremely difficult to do data analytics of consumer purchases at various merchants. Through the use of machine learning, we are hoping to find a way to better link identical products across different merchant
eThor is developing a product that is a physical cord that will be used to connect the merchants point of sale system and their printer. Embedded in the middle of the cord will be a small computer which will be used to perform the following actions: 1) When a receipt is sent from the merchant POS to the printer, the computer that is embedded in the cord will intercept the receipt data and send it to eThor in the cloud (likely via WiFi). eThor will then parse that data and store it in our database. 2) eThor will then also be able to append a QR code to the bottom of a customer receipt, which
The funding provided by the IAP program is intended to assist innovative small and medium-sized enterprises in the start-up phase that cannot access existing commercial support related to COVID-19.
The purpose of the project is to connect consumer spending data from the point of sale with their social media accounts. Specifically, we are looking to combine data from the credit card transaction, including line-item receipt data (product) on what the consumer purchased to their social media profiles.
eThor's current product offers pay at table software for the restaurant industry. We retrieve and display receipts on a credit card payment terminal and provide a user interface to process credit card transactions. Recently, customers are demanding the ability to also use the same payment device to create and insert orders into the point of sale system. This provides a variety of different technical challenges, especially across multiple different point of sale systems which have different data models. We are also going to have to take the technology we've built for legacy POS systems which
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Source: Government of Canada proactive disclosure of grants and contributions (open.canada.ca, dataset 432527ab-7aac-45b5-81d6-7597107a7013), 1,327,352 rows as published, collapsed to one agreement per agreement number (per reference number where none is given) at its latest amendment, which carries the full agreement value. Years are the agreement start year. Agreements with individuals are counted but not named.