[Davisgig] Missed NSF grant opportunity

[Gary Darling]

Rob,

I liked your bullet list:

	• enhanced infrastructure
	• increased customer choice
	• debundled services
	• network neutrality
	• bandwidth caps - removing
	• design customized to local needs
	• local spending, local taxes
	• better connectivity options for low income people
	• improved connectivity for local schools and libaries
	• local netflix cache
	• possibly reducing need for additional cell towers
	• municipal emergency notification system
	• municipal smartgrid in concert with UC Davis who are pursuing this through their Utilities dept.
	• parity between upload and download bandwidth
	

Some other items that you might consider:

• Enhanced Privacy
• Parallel community computing

On the cell phone tower issue, as 5G rolls out I think we will have more not fewer cell towers that serve a smaller radius to allow for better use of bandwidth and faster mobile connectivity as 5G specifies. If we are going to put in fiber, now would be a good time to work with the telcos to lay out a clean multivendor cell phone tower plan. Smaller cells would also mean lower power connections. This might acquit the cocearns of those in town that live next to relatively high power cell phone towers worried about health effects.

We have not really discussed WiFi and it seems out of scope but crowded 2.4 GH channels are already a problem in Davis - especially in apartment buildings. I guess that the tech savvy can go for dual band routers but this seems a short term fix. As the internet of things progresses there are going to be more things on the Internet and more crowded WiFi channels.


                                               —Gary





> On Feb 1, 2016, at 10:15 PM, Robert Nickerson <omrob at omsoft.com> wrote:
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> Hi Gary and All
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> Thanks for sharing this. 
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> We are a very tech savvy town "taking back" network infrastructure for our community and leasing access to it for IP Access, IPTV, and Content providers to sell services to our citizens.  I believe our network will differentiate itself from all these other FTTP projects, because of our specific local circumstances, and our desire to build this infrastructure in an intelligent and forward looking way.
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> As a community network, we should be able to characterize, define and plan for alternative uses with the deployed fiber. This is a good example. 
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> As we think about what we would like the network to do, I have  edited out the operations page here a bit, with some of the core design elements, I'd like to see in the network. 
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> http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~help/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=operations
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> Please feel free to look it over and add some suggestions if you think they would be beneficial. 
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> See any of you that can make it Wed the 3rd at 6:30pm at Omsoft
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> BTW -  It will be pretty chilly so be prepared for that.
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> Thanks
> RAN
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> On 1/28/2016 10:46 AM, Gary Darling wrote:
>> Missed NSF opportunity
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>> I was contacted by the San Diego supercomputer center to collaborate on an NSF “Big Data” grant. The topic was on drought and water in the West. They wanted to utilize information from an interstate web services network grant that I have gotten from EPA. I had just a couple of days to submit a letter of intent. I met the deadline working with the Western States water council and a CS prof at SDSC. Apparently NSF has awarded big data hub grants around the country in the West, hub grants were awarded to SDSC, Berkeley CS and University of Washington CS. I believe that there will be a series of “spoke” grants that will be offered soon. Some of these grants will be for community networks. This would be a perfect opportunity for a place like Davis. If I end up a collaborator on the NSF project I’ll be able to effetely monitor this opportunity.
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>> I had a conversation with city staff on a proposal I was calling “sensible Davis” the project would instal a series of sensors across Davis to help optimize things like water use. For example sprinkler systems could be given guidance based on weather reports and observed temperature.This would cut water use without hurting plants. Staff liked the idea, but once Davis GIG came up it became clear that telemetry should be bundled in with what would become a DCN 2.0 that would consider implications of much faster communications and the social and technical implications of ubiquitous inexpensive sensors connected to that network. Future grant funding will depend on us coming up with innovative ways to use networks we should include new applications in the davis gig work.
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>> http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2016/nsf16510/nsf16510.htm
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