A presentation for the 2015 Border to Border Broadband conference in Minneapolis MN. Sponsored by the Blandin Foundation.

1. Fueling
Innovation
via Gigabit
Broadband
November 20,
20151

2. Public-private
partnership
501(c)(3)

3. 60 next-generation applications
200 smart gigabit city testbeds
Economic development
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OUR GOALS
Infrastructure
Next-Gen
Applications
Economic
Leadership

4. 50 ms
½ sec
5 sec
1 min
10 min
100 min
16 hrs
1 week
10 weeks
2 years
KB MB GB TB PB
Commercially Available
Terra Incognita
Mobiledatacaps
Wireddata
caps
Web page
Online backup
Netflix movie
Locavore
Cizzle
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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5. • 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

7. Advancing innovation,
technology and
entrepreneurism to create a
thriving and innovative
ecosystem.

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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
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► Central Lakes
College
► K-12 School
Districts
► Area Chambers
► Utility Providers
► Utility Providers
► Bus. and Ind.
► Dept. of Labor
and Industry
► Others

12. CONTINUED EFFORTS
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13. Cooperative
Changing the way we live, learn, work and play
Blandin Broadband Conference
November 20, 2015

14.  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

15. • 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

16. 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

18. 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

19. Virtual Fitness Studio
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20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. Connected Collaboration

25. Remote Radiology

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Remote Surgical Training

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Collaborative Design