Richardson, Texas(Dallas Metro Area)

Smart Gigabit Communities Launch

January 26, 2016

Community OverviewRichardson, Texas – Located in the Dallas Metro Area

Unique and distinguishing characteristics• The Telecom Corridor® Area of Innovation-the Technology hub of Texas• Home of the University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas)• Only usignite member that is a /University partnership • Located in the fourth largest U.S. metropolitan area• North Texas has the fifth largest pool of scientists and engineers in the U.S.

• Population 105,000. Day time employment 150,000 (second largest in DFW)• 500+ high tech companies/major worldwide telecom companies• Current operational status-awaiting deployment of GENI rack • Richardson Economic Development Partnership/UT Dallas• GENI rack to be located at UT Dallas data center adjacent to campus

Key Local Partners

• Faculty, Students & Staff, UT Dallas

• Members, Tech Titans® - a technology-intensive business leadership in North Texas)

• Local/regional technology incubators

• Local/regional entrepreneurs and angel investors

• Richardson Economic Development Partnership/UT-Dallas Partnership

• AT&T

• Fujitsu Network Communications

• Mayor, City of Richardson

• CEO, Tech Titans®

• CTO, AT&T

• CEO, Fujitsu/GlobeRanger

• CIO, City of Richardson

• CTO, UT Dallas

PARTNERSSources of

DEVELOPERSCommunityLEADERS

GASPGeolocated Allergens Sensing Platform

Brief descriptionThis project will develop and deploy an array of Internet of Things (IoT) in-situ sensors to characterize air quality in real time, streaming location, temperature, pressure, humidity, 6 criterion pollutants (O3, CO, NO, NO2, SO2, and H2S) levels and airborne particulates, both pollen-sized and smaller -- levels. The project will develop and field the first integrated Internet of Things (IoT) in-situ sensor package tracking pollution and pollen to provide airborne particulate mapping for Chattanooga. Longer term, data collection and initial visualization tools developed in Chattanooga can be used to support a nation-wide, open access dissemination platform on the order of Google’s StreetView, but called PollutionView.  The project will enable real-time big data analysis at a fine grain geographic level and help determine whether real-time allergen collection and visualization can improve health and wellness.

Lead developer/groupDr. David LaryUT-Dallas

Industrial Cloud Robotics Across SDNA Manufacturing Ecosystem for the Next Industrial Era

Brief description This project seeks to support the vision of the Factory-of the-Future where product design & development, as well as production, logistics and sustainment are increasingly net-centric and organized into geographically-distributed industrial ecosystems. The project uses distributed sensors, data, and computation to initiate and control and extend remote robotics materials-manipulating activities. To meet the stringent delay requirements, new networking technologies such as OpenFlow Software Defined Networks (SDN), and dynamic Layer-2 (L2) path-based networking services are used. Robot Operating System (ROS) - Industrial (ROS-I) software will be used to control real robots located at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San Antonio, using HPC resources at the University of Virginia (UVA) and The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD).

Lead developer/groupUniversity of Virginia (UVA)The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD)the SouthWest Research Institute (SWRI)

What we have to offer to other communitiesList of unique community resources to share with other SGCs

1. The Dallas-Richardson-Plano-Irving, Texas metro region ranks 6th among U.S. industry clusters on the Milken Institute’s Index of Overall Tech Poles. The University of Texas at Dallas’ outstanding engineering and computer science programs provide homegrown talent to fuel the rapid growth in the region’s wide variety of linked technology sectors. The region ranks…

…2nd in Data Processing, Hosting, & Related Services. A number of data processing centers are located here, with Electronic Data Systems, with [HP] the primary anchor.

…2nd in Telecommunication Services, hosting AT&T’s global headquarters, major operations of Verizon and the North American headquarters of nearly every major global telecommunications companies.

…3rd in Communications Equipment Manufacturing, and is renowned for hosting Richardson’s legendary “Telecom Corridor”.

…6th among Semiconductor & Other Electronic Component Manufacturing regions, with Texas Instruments as its anchor.

2. Education/Workforce – 18 four-year universities, 20 colleges

3. Healthcare – 2 medical schools, 82 hospitals, 2 brain science centers

4. Assortment of industry sectors in the region - map to all US Ignite targets