LEaRN The Lafayette Engagement and Research Network

• • Introductions and Project Overview (quick 5-10 minutes) for new meeting members
  • Deployment of Prototypes to Cajundome Blvd @ Congress & Cajundome Blvd @ Eraste Landry
  • Smart City Summit Recap

Administration

• Recurring Meeting Date/Time
• Collaboration Platform/Communication – reminder for access and action items being tracked for new members.
• Public access to JIRA and Confluence pages (LaBar, William (CGI Federal)

Hardware (Sensor, Servers, POC Assembly, Deployment Strategy)

• Prototype platform status
  • Sensors deployed to the following locations:
    • Cajundome Blvd @ Congress
    • Cajundome Blvd @ Eraste Landry
  • Prototype sensor status – health and monitoring
  • Key takeaways on sensor mounting issues
  • Key takeaways from prototype deployment including time frames and milestone targets reached
• UL Student Participation Plan Discussion      
  • Updates on time frame for student hardware and assembly
    - Plan for final design of hardware for June 12, 2017
• LCG, LUS Fiber and CGI Planning update 
  • Sensor external connectivity through VPN
    -Work order has been entered
• Hardware specifications – including updates changes
• Future Sensor Deployments
  • UL Research Input to help guide deployment intersection locations – Dr. Whitney Broussard, Dr. Yanica Visser ( committed to advise graduate students to help with selecting locations)
  • Updates on Coordination of sensor deployments with LDEQ/USGS
  • Time frames / Quantities for upcoming future deployments
• Mobile Sensors
  -Plan for sensor to be connected to be api, mounted to vehicle, gateway via cell phone
• Water Quality Sensors

• Current Development Work Summary
  • Overview of current status of publicly accessible Sensor API
  • Upcoming and future enhancements for Sensor API
  • Quick overall architecture updates
• Hosting Environment
  • Updates on current hosting environment in Azure
  • Future plans for hosting environment for development and production
• Open Data Platform
  • Key takeaways from Cajun Code Fest
  • Future plans and hosting for Open Data Platform
  • Data collaboration

Partner Outreach

• Detroit (Middle School connection via US Ignite)
• Portland / NIST Global City Team Challenge Supercluster
• Kansas City Air Quality presentation (Aaron Deacon, Jonathan Wagner)
• National Environmental Information Exchange Network Conference (Kim Nelson Keynote)
• Smart Lafayette ACT-IAC Showcase (4/26 is the new date)
• US Ignite Smart City Conference in Austin (June 25th-28th)
• Upcoming EPA Brown bag, monthly air sensor session / 20-30 participants across ORD, OAR, OECA, and Regions
• Social Media Presence
• Article in “The Current”

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