Cool Technologies at Georgia Tech

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Cool Technologies at Georgia Tech
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Overview

• GPS Stingers/Trolley
• Wi-Fi campus / Cellular Innovations
• Residential Community
• Classroom Technology
• Current Research
• Clubs and other Organizations

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Stingers

• GPS tracking
• Wi-Fi corridor for the Tech Trolley

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Wi-Fi

• All general purpose classrooms
• Most popular common spaces and outdoor areas
  (incl. yellow jacket park, technology square,
  most of atlantic street, etc.)
• Planning expansion into Residence Halls soon
• GT LAWN

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Cellular

• GT partnership with Cingular
• Adding Wi-Fi to the Stinger Trolley service via
  cellular uplink
• (pilot project by summer 06)
• SMS application in development to track busses
  from your cell phone
• Many technologies being researched

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ResNet

• Blisteringly fast connection
• (100Mb in the rooms GigE outbound)
• Port per person in residence halls and
  connectivity in study areas
• Wi-Fi in dining halls and Freshman Learning
  Center
• ResNet

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Whats on?

• Over 100 entertainment and educational channels
  including over 20 foreign language channels
• 4 local Atlanta HDTV stations with some
  specialized content when available (such as the
  2006 Olympics)
• Movies on HBO and GTCN

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Classrooms

• Projectors, touch screens, various inputs
• Electronic whiteboard capture (E-beam)
• Video recording (IP camera system)
• Document cameras
• WebCT
• Personal Response System (PRS)

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Research

• Wearable computing
• Nanotechnology Research complex
• http//www.gatech.edu/innovations/

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Groups

• GT Motorsports
• RoboJackets
• GT Music (MIDI ensemble)

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QA
Questions or comments? http//www.oit.gatech.edu
/comm_files/Cool_Technology.ppt

• Jason C. Allgood, CTS, ACE
• jason.allgood_at_oit.gatech.edu