SHERBROOKE, QUE. -- The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) is injecting more than $28 million into three research projects at the University of Sherbrooke to acquire specialized equipment needed to advance the work of the researchers leading these projects. One of them, led by Rejean Fontaine from the Faculty of Engineering, focuses on the use of artificial intelligence in everyday actions. Current technologies rely on the transfer of an astronomical amount of data across the Internet and cloud computing. Professor Fontaine's project seeks to distribute artificial intelligence in small objects to reduce the huge ecological footprint generated by data transmission. The research team will design microsystems capable of processing data locally and networking them, in particular through the acquisition of equipment to manufacture and network thousands of sensors.