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Active Noise Cancellation for Open Workplaces

You have the opportunity to engage with the Nokia Workplace Resources team with the goal of piloting the solution within the Nokia work environment. Successful pilots could lead to wider scale deployment.
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Nokia’s global Workplace Resources organization is looking for active noise cancellation solutions, to be deployed in open floorplan work areas. Such a solution would give knowledge workers occupying these areas direct control over the ambient noise level in their workspace, without affecting other nearby occupants and without the need for noise-cancelling headphones.

What are we looking for:

Nokia employs knowledge workers around the world, frequently in large, open-floorplan configurations. Such configurations provide significant overall benefits – for example in increasing the degree of collaboration among teams – but with some undesirable side effects. Most notably, such configurations tend to have an ambient noise level that is not ideal for focused, individual work.

In order to secure the “peace and quiet” needed, occupants frequently either simply withdraw from the open area (securing a huddle room, or working from home), or they utilize headsets (either cancelling the ambient noise, or overwhelming it with music). These solutions are sub-optimal, and each has drawbacks.

An ideal solution would be an active noise cancellation system that would provide the ability, ideally at the scope of each individual workstation, to create a bubble of silence – blocking outside noise from entering the silenced space, and blocking noise from within the workplace from propagating to the surrounding floor area. When activated, such a system would not only allow occupants to individually control the ambient noise level, but would also allow them to speak freely at their own workstation without fear of disturbing others.

The Nokia Workplace Resources (WR) team is looking for technical innovations in this domain. Successful ideas would be piloted by WR in challenging, real-world environments. At this time we are not looking for idea level submissions, but rather prototypes, products and solutions that we can pilot quickly.

Process & benefits available for you via this Challenge:

The Nokia Workplace Resources (WR) team will review all submissions to find the best ideas from Nokia’s point of view: assessing innovativeness, feasibility, scalability, and convenience. The best proposals will have an opportunity to engage with the WR team with the goal of piloting the solution within the Nokia work environment. Successful pilots could lead to wider scale deployment.

How to submit proposal

All proposals to this Challenge should be submitted in Nokia’s Global Innovation Mall. Click here to Submit.

Who can create a challenge?

  • If you want to publish a challenge on the NokiaPartners - Open communities and get support from the community to solve your problems, you first need to be registered on the platform. Then you need to contact the NokiaPartners - Open communities administrator in the Community section. They will create the challenge for you. Search for “admin” in the Community section, and click on “Nokia Admin” to contact and ask for your challenge to be created.

 

How do I submit an answer/proposal?

  • To contribute to a challenge, first open the challenge page, and then click on the "start proposal" button on the right-hand-side. A new page will appear with different text fields to fill in and attachments to include. You can also link to an existing project you have previously created on the platform. Once you have finished, click on submit.
  • If you save as draft, your submission will not be completed and will not be submitted to the challenge owner.

 

What happens once I submit?

  • Once you have submitted your proposal, your ‘Challenge Submission Form’ becomes accessible by the creator or the challenge, who can see and edit your proposal. Through the challenge page, only the owner of the challenge can see the different proposals submitted against his/her challenge. It is up to the challenge owner to inform participants about decisions and potential next steps.
  • To note, when you save a submission as draft, it is not submitted to the challenge owner.

 

Who can see my proposal?

  • The owner of the challenge, the submission review committee, and the NokiaPartners - Open communities Administrator team are the only ones who can see your proposed ideas and solutions to the challenge.

 

What happens if my proposal is successful?

  • For each challenge, submission review and selection process is different and the responsibility of the challenge owner. If your project is selected, the owner of the challenge will come back to you with further guidance on the next steps.

 

What happens if it is unsuccessful?

  • For each challenge, submission review and selection process is different and the responsibility of the challenge owner. If your project is not shortlisted, the owner of the challenge will inform you using the messaging features of NokiaPartners - Open communities. Your proposed ideas will then be removed/deleted from challenge submissions.
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