Information Technology

Intelligent buildings, or smart buildings, are developed to maximize a building’s efficiency while lowering both its operational costs and environmental impact. They provide illumination, thermal comfort, air quality, physical security, and sanitation over a building’s lifecycle. All this is done using information technology during operation to connect a variety of subsystems, which typically operate independently, so that these systems can share information to optimize total building performance.

In a world where transactions are increasingly carried out online and experiences take place in the digital realm, user experience has never been more important. At the University of Ottawa, the student user experience is at the heart of the institution and Digital Campus Transformation Plan.

On January 27, 2021, an initiative to enforce Self-Serve Password Reset (SSPR) for all uoAccess accounts will commence.  Forget your password? Need a quick password change? No problem! Once your account has been enrolled to SSPR, you will be able to easily access the system and change your password within seconds!

Email is one of the easiest ways to gather account information, credit card numbers and passwords. According to Symantec, it is estimated that over 156 million phishing emails are sent daily worldwide. If only 1% of these attempts are successful, over 1.5 million accounts are put at risk.