Edge vs. Cloud: The Real Debate in Industrial Computer Vision
By Francis Latulippe, Chief Technology Officer For a long time, when people talked about computer vision in industry, they pictured highly structured assembly lines: a part passes in front of a camera, an algorithm checks that it’s compliant, then it moves on to the next one. Simple, efficient, and above all predictable. The environment was […]
Predictive Maintenance Has Left the Control Room
Real impact starts where human presence ends. A perspective by Francis Latulippe, Chief Technology Officer • May 2026 Predictive maintenance has been a buzzword for a long time. If you’ve been in industrial tech for the past decade, you’ve heard the pitch a hundred times: put sensors on your equipment, run the data through an […]
Move Now or Fall Behind: What PDAC 2026 Revealed About R&D and Time to Market
A field report by Francis Latulippe, Chief Technology Officer • March 2026 I just got back from PDAC 2026, and I have to say, the energy on that floor was invigorating. More people, more projects, more urgency. But what struck me most wasn’t the size of the booths or the scale of the announcements. It […]
From Zero to 200,000 connected devices working together for better energy management, province-wide
Achieving carbon neutrality Over 100 TWh of additional clean electricity are required to achieve energy transition and carbon neutrality in Quebec by 2050. In this perspective, Hydro-Quebec aims at making significant energy efficiency efforts that will make it possible to curtail 8.9 TWh by 2032. For that purpose, it has created Hilo, a subsidiary, with the […]