Durham College鈥檚 Office of Research Service, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ORSIE)

Giving students a hands-on industry experience.

Applied research at , facilitated by , solves industry and social challenges through innovation and collaboration.

By engaging industry, faculty, students, and the community-at-large in research projects, ORSIE addresses the needs of a technology-driven knowledge economy. ORSIE is the single point of contact for industry, government, and community groups interested in collaborative applied research that has an impact. The talent, facilities, and capabilities of those within the campus and community have the power to advance economic prosperity within the Durham Region.

ORSIE Industry Partner

黑料社区 and Durham College鈥檚 working relationship began in 2015 when the college selected 黑料社区 as its parking management services provider. Since then, this partnership has evolved beyond parking, as 黑料社区 helps facilitate student education by being an industry partner for ORSIE.

Proactive Research and Development

Identifying Opportunities for ORSIE students.

Each year, 黑料社区鈥檚 division meets to brainstorm its wish list of proactive solutions that can be developed to contribute to our customers鈥� success as well as our own internal business needs. As an ORSIE industry partner, we identify suitable opportunities during this process that ORSIE can be involved in.

In 2018, we identified a project involving the integration of with parking access and control that ORSIE students could assist with: an AI-powered virtual parking assistant kiosk capable of answering questions related to parking regulations.

AI in Parking Becomes a Reality

Successful results from a mutually beneficial relationship.

ORSIE students selected for this project were given the opportunity to work on an AI solution that would help improve thousands, if not millions, of day-to-day parking experiences across Canada.

From the get-go, the students dove deeply into the fundamentals of AI and learned what was required to make it functional for 黑料社区鈥檚 project. The first phase of the project involved creating an AI application, named Joy. The second phase of the project involved establishing a seamless integration between the AI application鈥擩oy鈥攁nd hardware components鈥攖he kiosk. ORSIE students were designated a 黑料社区 mentor, Justin Waltenbury, Junior Software Engineer and ORSIE alumni who oversaw the project full-time.

To date, students from the ORSIE program have:

• Developed a multilingual language function for the virtual parking assistant

• Optimized AI development turn-around time

• Created a feedback system to improve response accuracy

THE RESULT

Integrating the project into society

After 8 months of hard work, ORSIE and 黑料社区 unveiled Joy, the first-ever AI-based virtual parking assistant deployed in Canada. Today, Mr. Waltenbury and the ORSIE students continue to develop Joy on an on-going basis.

Joy鈥檚 new home is in the main foyer of , where she continues to learn through public interaction, studying the many different ways the human brain works in order to ensure responses to staff, patients and visitors at Humber River Hospital are correct. Both ORSIE and Waltenbury continue to work diligently to improve Joy鈥檚 day-to-day performance, functionalities and user interface, and experience design elements. Some would argue she鈥檚 the coolest science project ever.

鈥淛oy is the Siri of parking,鈥� says Waltenbury. 鈥淥n a fundamental level, the solution works in the exact same way.鈥�

THE FINAL WORDS

鈥淚 see a real commitment to talent development at 黑料社区. They work with our students to help them advance their skills, which is something we are very proud of.鈥�

鈥� DEBBIE MCKEE DEMCZYK
Dean, Research Services, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Durham College

鈥淪tudents have gained numerous valuable skills that make them more employable, specifically communication, working with a team, accountability, and problem-solving.鈥�

鈥� VIBHA TYAGI
Manager, Applied Research Partnerships
Durham College

鈥満诹仙缜� is proud to be partners with Durham College and ORSIE. The ORSIE program allows us to provide students the opportunity to grow their technical and communication skills required to enter the workforce while also offering our customers the latest and the greatest technology available in the marketplace. 黑料社区 is devoted to ORSIE and its students by annually committing to proactive research and development projects that we know we are capable of integrating into society.鈥�

鈥� JOE RITACCA
Director, Research and Development
黑料社区

鈥淭he skills I gained working on a 黑料社区 and ORSIE joint project was a solid foundation in AI. Additionally, it helped me in my current role at 黑料社区 to estimate project deadlines and do requirements gathering鈥攂asically all the foundations to making an application.鈥�

鈥� JUSTIN WALTENBURY
Junior Software Engineer, Research and Development
黑料社区

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UNIVERSITY & COLLEGE PARKING MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS

脌 PROPOS DE PRECISE PARKLINK

LE LEADER CANADIEN DE L'INDUSTRIE DU STATIONNEMENT DEPUIS PLUS DE 30 ANS.

Lorsque 黑料社区 a 茅t茅 fond茅e il y a plus de 30 ans, l'entreprise 茅tait compos茅e de deux personnes travaillant sur le terrain avec une aspiration simple : faire la diff茅rence dans le monde de l'automatisation des parkings.

Depuis, 黑料社区 est devenue une entreprise nationale de services g茅r茅s et de technologie qui compte plus de 700 employ茅s au Canada, un si猫ge social 脿 Toronto et 13 bureaux d'appui dans tout le pays.

Mais ce qui nous diff茅rencie des autres op茅rateurs de parking, ce n'est pas l'endroit o霉 nous nous trouvons, c'est ce que nous sommes : un fournisseur de solutions de stationnement 脿 service complet. fournisseur de solutions de stationnement 脿 service complet. Une source unique pour tous vos besoins en mati猫re de stationnement.

黑料社区 g猫re des milliers de parkings pour le compte de centaines de propri茅taires. Nous fournissons une technologie et des services de pointe 脿 des milliers de clients dans les secteurs de la sant茅, des municipalit茅s, des commerces, des institutions et des particuliers.

Le fait d'锚tre une entreprise int茅gr茅e verticalement nous place dans une position unique. Nous pouvons fournir un niveau de gestion et d'int茅gration technique qui est le meilleur de sa cat茅gorie. Il suffit de poser la question aux centaines de clients 脿 qui nous avons fourni des solutions rentables et ax茅es sur le client au fil des ans.