eThor Media Ltd.

$138,000.00 CAD

≈ 21 months of average Canadian pay
Department
National Research Council Canada
Program
Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
Recipient country
Canada
Fiscal year
2021-2022
Agreement period
September 15, 2021 – September 14, 2022
Reference
nrc-cnrc:172-2021-2022-Q3-978801

Published purpose

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 will enable the customer to scan the QR code and do things like contactless payments or sign up for loyalty program

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