Retail, Commercial, and Residential Environments
Powered by Nokia’s advanced infrastructure, each Smart Building Living Lab features cutting-edge 5G private wireless connectivity, fibre Passive Optical Network (PON), and Optical LAN technology, providing the robust connectivity you need to test and validate your solutions in retail, commercial, and residential environments.
The Retail Smart Building Living Lab
Located in Ottawa, ON, the Retail Smart Building Living Lab is hosted at the St. Laurent Shopping Centre. This lab provides a retail environment with over 868,294 square feet, 175 stores, and 7.5 million visitors annually. This lab supports solutions that enhance customer experience, optimize operations, and improve safety and security. Powered by Nokia’s advanced connectivity solutions, this lab enables validation of retail-focused innovations in a high-traffic, real-world setting.
The Commercial Smart Building Living Lab
With almost 60,000 square feet in total across 4 floors, this Class A commercial space is located at Place Innovation Technoparc Montréal. Test your commercially focused smart building solutions in a dynamic environment with the advanced connectivity infrastructure needed to validate enterprise-grade applications in a real-world commercial setting.
The Residential Smart Building Living Lab
Located at The Bay Club in Toronto’s thriving tech ecosystem, the Residential Smart Building Living Lab offers a 32-story premium apartment complex for testing innovative solutions. This lab enables Canadian startups to validate technologies focused on enhancing resident experience, building automation, energy efficiency, and security within an authentic multi-residential environment.