Smart Gigabit Communities Launch in Richardson, Texas (Dallas Metro Area)

1. Richardson, Texas
(Dallas Metro Area)
Smart Gigabit Communities
Launch
January 26, 2016

2. Community Overview
Richardson, 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

3. 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
PARTNERS
Sources of
DEVELOPERS
Community
LEADERS

4. GASP
Geolocated Allergens Sensing Platform
Brief description
This 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/group
Dr. David Lary
UT-Dallas

5. Industrial Cloud Robotics Across SDN
A 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/group
University of Virginia (UVA)
The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD)
the SouthWest Research Institute (SWRI)

6. What we have to offer to other communities
List 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