Swidget Corp: federal grants and contributions: 12 agreements; $1.1M value; 2 departments; 5 programs.
Assay record ASY-CA-0AZA7S10UW · Cite as: Assay Systems, “Swidget Corp: federal grants and contributions”, https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/r/swidget-corp/
RRRF funding will be used to support Recipients to address the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The funding provided from the Innovation Assistance Program is to assist innovative, early-stage small- and medium-sized enterprises that are unable to access existing COVID-19 business support.
The project can be summarised as the expansion and continued development of a proprietary electrical device eco-system and focuses on the development of the IoT capabilities of the connected and modular Swidget outlets, dimmers and switches.
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.
This project is targeted at providing support for the repatriation of overseas manufacturing to Canada, and establishing a comprehensive testing and product validation program for the growing suite of products offered by the company.
The parallel development of multiple web-facing assets, using a number of functional platforms has resulted in a functional, though cumbersome patchwork of systems that need to be unified to improve customer useability, cybersecurity, and speed. The unification across platforms will seamlessly integrate user accounts, customer support, IoT product functionality, customer management, and partner management. It will also serve to improve web-assets related to IoT product support and useability.
This project will serve to assess the firm's cybersecurity stance with regards to its products and internal systems, make recommendations on shortcomings to be addressed, and implement the identified improvements, where applicable.
As a continuation to the Swidget project under CALM Technologies, Swidget Corp. was created to take the IP developed under CALM and to commercialize the technology for mass-market sales in the Electrical Device and Smart Home markets. Building on the IRAP-sponsored I2C seminar and subsequent marketing studies, the company identified a significant opportunity for a suite of products for which it had developed IP in a rapidly expanding market. There now exists an immediate need to hire additional human resources to help solve the operational challenges faced in commercializing the Swidget port
In order to expand the product offering within the Swidget Smart Home platform, a robust app is required. Currently, the Swidget app, which had been developed by a third-party consulting firm, does not allow for insert modules that require advanced communication, such as temperature and humidity readings, motion sensing, video streaming, as well as many other applications. The current app is built on a cross-platform implementation, which works for limited functional interaction with our hardware, but is not appropriate for higher level interactions. Our project is focused on building the a
Swidget has relied on a third-party R&D contractor to date, to perform key technical tasks (hardware & software development) relating to its suite of IoT enabled products. As the company transitions from simpler Wi-Fi enabled products to more multi-functional sensors and devices, it aims to develop these technologies and interfaces in house. One major area of development will be artificial Intelligence – building a framework around the planned suite of Swidget sensors. Current plans for AI are two-fold: non-intrusively baselining behavior patterns in elder-care facilities to serve to infor
The project will support development of intellectual property capacity within the firm.
IP Strategy Development under IP Assist Level 2
All grants from Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
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.