| Recent News | | - US Ignite Gigibit Application Summit, Austin, TX June 26-28
- LaBar, William (CGI Federal), Delcambre, Matthew (University of Louisiana at Lafayette), Miles, Brian (CGI Federal) attended
- LaBar, William (CGI Federal) and Miles, Brian (CGI Federal) demoed LEaRN project
- Highlights:
- Mayor-President Robideaux gave a well-received plenary speech to US Ignite Smart Cities Summit
- Made contact with team implementing StormSense flood early warning system in Norfolk, VA
- Brian
- City Open Data Portals: Austin, Orlando, Baton Rouge, New Orleans and other are using https://socrata.com/; Austin found that their open data portal was as useful for City departments as it is for the public at large (departments use the portal for collaboration that was previously difficult)
- Smart City ROI seems to break down into at least 3 categories: cost avoidance; cost recovery; and citizen impact. Smart Cities can leverage IoT through: savings: optimizing operations and processes; monetization (finding new revenue streams, e.g. demand-based parking pricing); impact on citizens (e.g. improve the ways cities connect communities and provide services)
- Will
- Will be talk with CIO of City of Austin. They are interested in the air quality sensors.
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| | Hardware (Sensor, Servers, POC Assembly, Deployment Strategy) | | - Prototype platform status
- Next round of sensors have been ordered, have arrived
- We are writing code to read data off of the sensors as we speak
- TODO: Need to detail sensor calibration protocol
- Ron Evans (EPA), Christin Benedict (EPA) are available as technical experts for calibration
- Prototype sensor status – health and monitoring
- Continue to working well without downtime since most recent code changes
- UL Student Participation Plan Discussion
- Updates on time frame for student hardware and assembly
- Plan for final design of hardware for July 21, 2017
- Notes from Gretchen L Vanicor (LA.edu)
- Elgazzar, Dr. Khalid (LEARN) is out of town for a few weeks, so a face-to-face meeting is not an option this week or next. He did however offer to meet over Skype to discuss students assembling the sensors.
- Can meet week of the 10th of July
- May need to reach out to other faculty (e.g. computer engineering)
- May be able to work with students from David Thibodeaux STEM academy
- LCG, LUS Fiber and Network/Hardware Planning update
- Private LUS sensor network will be terminated in Stephens Hall at UL
- Gene Fields CIO is committed to doing what we need in Stephens Hall
- Plan to use GENIE hardware provided by UL for Gateway
- LUS wants to charge UL for the network drop; they do not want to use the existing instance
- Meeting 7/7/2017, details to follow
- Future Sensor Deployments
- Status updates on UL Research Input to help guide deployment intersection locations
- Gretchen L Vanicor (LA.edu) is working on a list of potential locations based on advice from Dean Jaffey(sp?)
- e.g. locate at Daycares and Hospitals; Cajun Field bus stops (where buses idle); place in remote UL properties, e.g. ecology center, Crowley Energy Research Center (near rice and soybean fields), St. Martinville
- Gretchen L Vanicor (LA.edu) produced a spreadsheet, which can be found here: Sensor locations
- Status updates on Coordination of sensor deployments with LDEQ/USGS
- Status updates on Time frames / Quantities for upcoming future deployments
- Target early August for placing another 1/2 dozen prototype sensors
- Status Update Mobile Sensors
- Alghamdi, Taghreed (LEARN) is working at CGI this summer on mobile sensors
- Working on prototype car-mounted sensor
- Will work with Warren G. Abadie (Lafayette LA) to discuss potential for bus-mounted sensors
- It is possible to query some hardware on the buses to obtain current location
- We could use the bus Wifi to transmit data
- Update status on Water sensors brainstorming
- Delcambre, Matthew (University of Louisiana at Lafayette), Miles, Brian (CGI Federal) continued to meet with UL researchers (Beth Stauffer, Ed Theriot, Emad Habib, Taylor Sloey, Whitney Broussard, and others) and LCG (Warren G. Abadie (Lafayette LA), Bess Foret) to discuss flooding/drainage applications
- The group created a 2-page pilot project proposal
- The group is exploring seed funding for the pilot
- Delcambre, Matthew (University of Louisiana at Lafayette) talked with US Ignite about $$$ for more sensors. May be able to write a grant for $10k.
- Could be used for both air or water sensors
- Use a different name for the water project?
- May be more $$ avail for development work as well.
- Waiting to hear about whether US Ignite will allow a waiver for these funds to purchase hardware (the funds are meant for software development)
- US Ignite should have an official announcement at the June ~25thish Application Summit in Austin
- The group met June 20 to design a pilot study in the Coulee Mine sub-watershed.
- Group is working on Southeast Sustainability Network proposal to fund the prototype ($150k/year for 2 years)
- Letter of intent is due July 6, feedback by July 14
- Full proposal is due in early September
- LCG would need to be lead, but money would need to go through UL
- Use Cases and Ancillary Data Update (Ridgeway, Terysa (CGI))
- LCG Data Access
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| | Partner Outreach | | - LEaRN website
- Need to decide on a hostname:
- EPA Conference call June 28th
- Upcoming EPA Brown bag (July 18th), monthly air sensor session / 20-30 participants across ORD, OAR, OECA, and Regions
- Scheduled through Challenge.gov
- Preparation:
- Use same materials from July 13th
- Evenbrite call-in details:
- CPEX (Center for Planning Excellence, LA-based non-profit) Smart Growth Conference November 2017
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