| Recent News | | - Government Technology Magazine, Skip, wants an interview about LEaRN
- Carlee waiting on quote from Joel
- Andrew Rodgers from Chattennooga connected LaBar, William (CGI Federal) with new CGI affiliate
- Chattenooga wants to deploy some of our sensors
- Good from US Ignite perspective, sensors from two cities streaming data into one data mgmt system
- America Soc. of Civil Engineers has asked Carlee Alm-LaBar (Lafayette LA) and Warren G. Abadie (Lafayette LA) to speak at their conference in New Orleans
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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
- Hardware fabrication
- Meeting next week, August 11th, with UL and David Thibodeaux STEM academy to plan fabrication
- 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
- 3 potential Network Topologies
- Option 1: Use existing LCG traffic network
- Option 2: New LEaRN VPLS via LUSFiber
- Option 3: LEaRN commercial Internet, one connection per traffic cabinet
- Terry Huval still arranging meetings w/Mayor and CIO on Options 2 and 3
- Hopefully this will happen in the next few weeks
- Next LEaRN-LUS networking meeting is August 23rd
- 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
- Miles, Brian (CGI Federal) is working on getting these into a map
- Reference Google map from Gretchen's e-mail
- Specific locations need to be selected from a subset of these
- Need to determine network options available for non-traffic signal sites
- Cox seems to be receptive to cooperating for deployments to LPSS and other places not served by LUS
- Gretchen L Vanicor (LA.edu), Warren G. Abadie (Lafayette LA), Miles, Brian (CGI Federal) met July 18th to go through the master list and start refining placement
- Came up with a prioritized list of sites
- Next meeting next week we will add the traffic sites
- 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 | | - 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:
- Weather.com Digital Meteorologist Kari Strenfel contacted LaBar, William (CGI Federal) about Weather Underground expanding their Private Weather Station Network to include Air Quality data. They are interested in including data from the LEaRN network.
- Do we want to participate?
- Only if we can handle data quality concerns/calibration
- How do we handle data quality concerns?
- Other questions/concerns/comments?
- McMahon, Ethan (EPA) would probably be interested in this as part of data management and data quality
- CPEX (Center for Planning Excellence, LA-based non-profit) Smart Growth Conference November 2017
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