Fueling Innovation via Gigabit Broadband

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Public-private

partnership

501(c)(3)

60 next-generation applications

200 smart gigabit city testbeds

Economic development

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OUR GOALS

Infrastructure

Next-Gen

Applications

Economic

Leadership

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Synchrophaser

Remote 3D printer Fly-through data

visualization

CASA

Sim Center

Future CASA

Flood Cube Live radiology

4K video

GIGABIT FRONTIER

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• Real-time (apparently instantaneous)

• Very low latency

• Reliable (no hiccups)

• Cyberphysical interactions

• Big data to the end user / anchor institution

• Visual data exploration (“fly-through”)

• Collaborative (in the moment)

• Distributed

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TYPICAL APP CHARACTERISTICS

Advancing innovation, technology and

entrepreneurism to create a thriving and innovative

ecosystem.

Fueling Innovation Developing the

Workforce of Tomorrow

Launching new Technology &

Businesses

Supporting Businesses and our

Community

• Winger Dojo • TechnovationMN • Coding Units • Robotics Team • STEAM Team • STEAM advisor

Fueling Innovation

• Collaborative Space • Technology Network • New technology • Maker Space • Pipeline for

Employees

• Mentors • Investors • Test Bed

Community • Hackathons • Education • Networks

o Entrepreneurs o Students o Mentors o Schools o Investors o Businesses /

Organization o Collaborators o Funders o Sector Leaders o Meet ups o Co-Working Members

Ignited Results

Startup Accelerator 40% - 17

Investor Events 40% - 17

Events 20% - 9

Brainerd Lakes Area Economic Development Corporation’s

Mission Statement:

Expanding Business, Building Community, and Growing Jobs

In Crow Wing County

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Marketing and Branding

Workforce and Training

Infrastructure

Economic Development

TECH SERVICES INITIATIVE

TECHNOLOGY SERVICES INITIATIVE

WORKFORCE “Technology Services”

Technology, professional and back office operations that provide technology solutions or utilize technology to deliver their product or service to the world

Twenty-one high tech firms in the Brainerd Lakes Area

Stakeholders

BLAEDC

BLANDIN Foundation

Region 5 Development

Initiative Foundation

MN DEED

Rural Information Technology Alliance (RITA) Grant 2

► Central Lakes

College

► K-12 School

Districts ► Area Chambers

► Utility Providers

► Utility Providers

► Bus. and Ind.

► Dept. of Labor

and Industry

► Others

CONTINUED EFFORTS

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Cooperative Changing the way we live, learn, work and play

Blandin Broadband Conference

November 20, 2015

New 700 sq. mile cooperative enabled by $8.8 million Economic Development Loan from 10 communities, eventually $5 million from 17 townships, private financing and $1 million grant from state of Minnesota.

Active Ethernet fiber network capable of symmetrical gigabit connections. Voice, video and data along with emerging applications for health care, education and ag production. By end of 2016: Backbone complete, 10 cities constructed, wireless to 90% of rural area. Wired and wireless until 2018 when fiber will be built to all of the farms in the shaded townships

• RS Fiber is, at the core, a quality of life project and economic development opportunity for residents and businesses in the area.

• US Ignite will strengthen the economic development potential of the project and the Innovation Centers will play a critical role by developing and leveraging local technology skills.

• Our goal is to create incubator technology start up businesses focused on next generation applications for RS Fiber network is areas of: • Health Care

• Education

• Senior Citizens

• Ag Production

Innovation Center

• Lay the groundwork for US Ignite opportunities

• Innovation Center will leverage the Internet and the Intranet

• 1st Innovation center in Winthrop at RS Fiber building

• Partnering with RS Fiber and University of Minnesota Extension Service • Enhanced STEM curriculum for area schools (public, home, charter, parochial)

• Code writing

• Robotics and Drones

• Digital Inclusion

• Possible Maker Space / Coder Dojo

• Broadcast Journalism component leveraging the Intranet

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NEXT-GENERATION APPLICATION

EXAMPLES

Gigabit-networked microscopy

• Chattanooga STEM students gain access to

researchers, 4K microscopic images, and knowledge

from 1,800 miles away

• Students able to learn about and manipulate

sophisticated microscope in real time

• Analysis of Pacific micro-organisms integrated into

STEM biology curriculum

• Low-latency gigabit networks enable three

simultaneous streams: high-resolution images, video

conferencing, and microscope manipulation

• Short video summary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVq6ib6_Wrs

Virtual Fitness Studio

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Virtual-reality based training

• Entry-level trainees learn relevant skills via

immersive, cloud-based VR platform

• Educational modules will help train thousands of

workers in solar cell and small wind turbine design,

installation and maintenance tasks

• System enhances learning and reduces investment

in equipment, lab space, personnel, and field visits

• Plans to make platform available to 60+ BTOP-

funded public computing centers in Philadelphia

• Public computing centers able to offer VR-based

training by being connected to local cloud storage

and compute capabilities via gigabit networks

Remote physical therapy

• Interactive video conferencing and 3D sensing

interface links physical therapist in a clinic to

patient in a home

• Quantitative movement assessments are

computed on the patient and delivered to therapist

in real time

• Patients’ balance and gait are assessed and

exercise routines updated accordingly

• Microsoft Kinect is used for both quantitative

movement assessments and video conferencing

Timely health alerts via Big Data

• Daily global estimates of airborne particulates are

made by combining Big Datasets from remote

sensing sites with in-situ observations from more

than 8,000 sites in 55 countries

• IoT devices depicting air quality in real time and

streaming location, temperature, pressure,

humidity, 6 pollutants (O3, CO, NO, NO2, SO2, and

H2S) and size of airborne particulates

• Together both of the above provide real-time

health alerts for conditions such as Asthma &

COPD

Software Lending Library

• First public library to offer free gigabit access to all users

• Within 4th-floor GigLab entrepreneurs gain access to 3D

printers, laser cutters, vinyl plotters, co-working space,

and enterprise-level tools

• Short-session and hands-on courses offered on using

available tools

• In addition, Internet2 expects to announce that it will be

able to scale US Ignite applications (e.g., software

lending library, work force development) across its

network of 6000 gigabit-connected libraries

Connected Collaboration

Remote Radiology

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Remote Surgical Training

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Collaborative Design