Smart Environment

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Designing a smart environment, whether it be a building, a campus, a city, or even several interconnected cities, requires a process and planning that goes far beyond technical considerations alone. For these environments to truly meet the needs of occupants, they must be human-centered and incorporate elements related to user experience, mobility, accessibility, inclusion, resource management, and much more.

After years of implementing innovation ecosystems and supporting various actors in the development of their transformational projects, Arche believes that smart environment projects require well-structured ecosystems involving several disciplines, technologies, structures and people with different perspectives. Regardless of your size, you have the power to attract a diversity of actors, promote synergies between them and act to increase the quality of life of citizens and visitors through these projects.

Our Smart Environment Project Management Service

In order to accompany you in the creation and implementation of your smart environment project, Arche offers you a smart environment project management service using an adapted version of our internal process that will meet your needs:

Having the necessary knowledge and skills will provide you with a solid foundation to begin your connected environment project. Therefore, Arche offers you a training program through our Re-Innovate learning initiative called Smart Cities 101.

Arche will analyze several elements of your organizational DNA including your local culture, your decision-making processes, the state of your infrastructure, and will map your ecosystem. This analysis will allow us to evaluate which type of smart environment, technologies and ecosystem strategy will best meet your needs and objectives.

Arche will help you create a personalized vision of your smart environment or municipality over a period of five to ten years. During this stage of the process, we will work with you to validate your project with your partners, the people who will interact with your smart environment and other stakeholders. This process will allow us to collect relevant data and feedback, as well as identify potential collaborators and key success factors.

Arche will develop a strategic plan that includes a strategic vision for the project, a coordinated process, infrastructure requirements, a detailed action plan with implementation phases, and communication materials for recruiting collaborators and partners. This plan will also identify the initial projects to be undertaken, a strategy for data collection and use, and a budget for the initial phases.

Arche will act as your project manager, by focusing on the implementation of your smart environment ecosystem and by working with you to identify solutions to the challenges that will arise throughout the process, like in any implementation process.

The goal of all Arche projects is to ensure the successful implementation of the strategies that are developed in collaboration with our clients and their continuation once our mandate is completed. This is why Arche always completes each project by providing:

A roadmap setting out the next major steps of the project;
Training for employees to manage the project and the integrated systems; and,
Documents, materials and other resources needed to automate the management of your smart environment.

With Arche by your side, you will have access to the knowledge, expertise and resources that you need to build a good foundation and ensure that your environment will be interoperable and adaptable with the evolution of your vision and needs over the years.

Our Approach

Arche consists of a small core team that is supported by a large network of multidisciplinary actors and partners. Our approach is to develop our projects over the long term by taking advantage of well-structured ecosystems. To achieve this, once your vision has been identified and a strategy developed, we assemble a team customized to your objectives to ensure your success.

Philosophy of our services

At Arche, each of our mandates varies according to our clients’ projects. Our processes all begin with an analysis of your needs and your DNA so that we can offer you a personalized service adapted to your reality. Find out how our services can help you in your innovation projects:

Public

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Innovation in a public organization can be a challenge. As an actor of change working within a government agency or a para-public entity, you have to innovate within a complex structure, with very specific rules about how you can work with external collaborators, how you choose suppliers, how your budgets are planned, and how decisions are made. All of these generate real factors that need to be taken into account whenever public funds are invested in innovation.

Arche has extensive experience and a team familiar with government procedures and regulations. Our strategies are tailored to adapt to your reality and offer you results-oriented organizational modernization.

Private

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All good companies constantly evaluate themselves and seek to use innovation as a way to perform better, reduce operating expenses and provide teams with the tools and knowledge to compete in an innovation economy. Too often, however, companies see innovation as part of their work, rather than as part of their culture that transforms the workforce into a community of problem-solvers.

Arche understands that as a company, you need to focus on your work and meet the needs of your customers. We understand your reality, let us show you how to integrate innovation into the way you work.

Academic & Research

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Innovation and the academic sector have always been synonymous. Universities and research centres have always been at the heart of innovation: testing ideas, demonstrating capacity and supporting industry in the development of countless technologies that we all use in our daily lives. However, because academia is the source of ideas, institutions often find it difficult to collaborate with the private sector, to support the full innovation cycle and to capitalise on the value generated by research.

Arche, having worked with many universities and research centres, understands the importance of finding new and creative ways to support the research community. Let us help you build structured innovation and collaboration models to transform your research into solutions that make an impact in the world.

Economic Development

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Incubators, accelerators and entrepreneurship training programs have become the new engines of local economic development, helping entrepreneurs build the next generation of businesses. However, in this increasingly competitive field, it is becoming difficult to differentiate between different service offerings and support the revival of local economies.

Arche has worked with some of the best incubators in Canada to advise them on the development of their programs, their support ecosystems, and how to use open innovation to build bridges with SMEs and large companies and turn ideas into value.

Smart Environment

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