| Recent News, Outreach, and Funding Opportunities | | - Miles, Brian (CGI Federal) will be making a presentation on LEaRN at Science on the Bayou on Oct. 17th
- 6:30 to 8:30 at Jefferson Street Pub (talks start around 7:00)
- Miles, Brian (CGI Federal) will send out slides for feedback today.
- This is the first direct citizen outreach on LEaRN so please offer your feedback!
- 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
- South Coast Air Quality Management District invited CGI to speak at their meeting AQ Sensor Spec meeting in September:
- US Ignite Gigabit Application Development Fund
- $10k available
- Delcambre, Matthew (University of Louisiana at Lafayette) submitted a proposal that could be used to purchase wireless and switches needed for USGS site, or for other sites depending on LUS network topology
- We should find out by the end of October about whether these funds will be awarded.
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| | Hardware (Sensor, Servers, POC Assembly, Network, 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
- Met Oct. 11th, with UL and David Thibodeaux STEM academy to plan fabrication
- David Thibodeaux students will be available to help with fabrication in November through January
- Tentative schedule
- CGI will hold a tutorial for high school students on Nov. 13th
- This will be video recorded
- CGI will also have fabrication instructions ready for Nov. 13th
- High school students will begin fabrication (soldering components onto PCBs) on Nov. 16th
- Fabrication will continue throughout Dec. and January
- Middle school students will begin assembling sensor boxes in late January, with a goal of finishing at the end of February.
- 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
- As of Oct. 11th, LUS reports they have identified a path forward.
- Terry Huval arranging meeting w/Mayor-President to work through the details
- Hopefully this will happen in the next few weeks
- We will schedule a follow-up LEaRN-LUS networking meeting after the meeting with the Mayor-President
- Future Sensor Deployments
- Status updates on UL Research Input to help guide deployment intersection locations
- Latest proposed sensor site map is here:
- UL Sensors
- LPSS Sensors
- Met Thursday August 24th, 11:00 with Shauna LeBlanc
- Shauna helped us to tailor sensor deployment to work better with LPSS curriculum
- Follow-up meeting sometime in October to plan logistics with LPSS facilities folks.
- Status updates on Coordination of sensor deployments with LDEQ/USGS
- Status updates on Time frames / Quantities for upcoming future deployments
- Target mid September 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
- Use Cases and Ancillary Data Update (Ridgeway, Terysa (CGI))
- LCG Data Access
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| | Partner Outreach | | - 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
- Delcambre, Matthew (University of Louisiana at Lafayette) US Ignite would also like it more if we use a Genie rack as well
- Kansas City may also be interested (Jonathon Wagner)
- Have an innovation district downtown, smart lighting, wifi, etc.
- This is where they would be installed
- Proposal: give partners one built sensor under the understanding that they use our specs to build their own, based on our open source hardware.
- 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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