Raimundo Rodulfo, P.E., MSEM, PMP, CSSBB on LinkedIn: #smartcities #stem #research #innovation #education (2024)

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My team at the GIS & IoT Lab in the City of Coral Gables Innovation & Technology Department (CGIT) has been very creative and productive over the past years. A multidisciplinary group of experts augmented by cohorts of interns -led, mentored and coordinated by our GIS Division Manager Mark Hebert- has been working diligently on numerous R&D projects, experiments, ideas and proofs of concept; building and testing smart city prototypes, systems and applications for various municipal services.Our lab research covers multiple STEM fields and applications, including spatial computing, augmented/virtual/mixed reality (AR/VR/XR), digital twins (DT); Internet of Things, Cyber-physical Systems (IoT/CPS); electrical/computer/software engineering; 3D printing, digital fabrication, maker's corner projects; artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, data science, full-stack SDLC, and other applied-science fields/practices/technologies.Our CGIT Internship Program has mentored and engaged 115 interns over the years via student/researcher cohorts from universities/colleges/schools; ranging from high school to undergrad, graduate, Ph.D. and post-doc; and representing STEM academic programs in computer science/engineering, data science, electrical engineering, software engineering, robotics, cybersecurity, UX design, and other curricula from our education partners (UM, FIU, MDC, Barry, Nova, Carnegie Mellon, UC Berkeley, Coral Gables High School, and other institutions). Many students have gone on to acquire employment in their field. In their interviews they cite their internship for both the hands-on experience it provided, as well as the business acumen and community impact associated to the city's professional setting. My team has benefited directly from the work of our interns and our subsequent hiring of some of them.Some of our lab's latest R&D projects and concept designs include:City AR platform/apps, DT AR/VR immersive environments with collaboration tools and IoT object/data population; AR applications for City Centennial and Cultural Arts projects; Pilots leveraging Nvidia and Apple-Pro/Oculus/HoloLens/Magic-Leap/Unreal-CityEngine SDKs; blended physical-digital XR tech; Smart Contract rewards system (Web3 on blockchain with NFT payouts);IoT sensor API development for Urban Analytics platform feeding Web3 products and DT environment;AI LLM RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) implementation; DT LOD (linked open data);Knowledge Graphs;3D-printing, digital fabrication of city network equipment box/housing, mounts and stands...Kudos to our CGIT GIS & IoT Lab team (GIS Manager Mark Hebert, GIS Analyst/Environmental Engineer Ana Arias, IT Analyst/Software Engineer Javier Fernandez) and all our interns and CGIT team members who worked on impactful R&D projects over the years.If you want to collaborate or submit an internship application visit our CGIT internship page: https://lnkd.in/eS_nvNZc#smartcities #STEM #research #innovation

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Visit our booth at the Energy Innovation Summit, organized by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA-E), to learn more about our Autonomous Intelligent Assistant AI-assisted traffic/energy optimization research project (AutonomIA) -led by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in collaboration with City of Coral Gables (smart city testbed and demo partner), UC Berkeley (academic partner), and Siemens / Yunex, Aimsum, and TTS (industry partners).AutonomIA, funded by ARPA-E, is being implemented in three instrumented corridors in Coral Gables to test reducing traffic congestion, idle time at intersections, and carbon emissions. This is the second year of this research project and our second presentation at the ARPA-E summit.#smartcities #innovation #technology #efficiency #mobility #sustainability #artificialintelligence #machinelearning #digitaltwin

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Coral Gables residents and visitors can get the city's new 311 mobile app version and visit the revamped Smart City Hub platform on-the-go from any of the public smart city kiosks in Downtown Coral Gables, as well as the City's website. The apps and the hub provide a multitude of valuable tools, resources and information for the public, like 311 service request center and AI chatbots; public transportation, parking and mobility real-time apps; city events and meetings notifications and alerts; open data platforms, real-time traffic and environmental IoT sensor data; e-government service portals and enterprise systems, civic engagement and collaboration apps, among other services.Get the App and Visit the Hub!City App: https://qrco.de/cg_app Smart City Hub: https://lnkd.in/eNAnX3jF City Website: https://lnkd.in/e_nsJ2-7 #smartcities #citizenengagement #mobility #digitaltransformation #businessintelligence

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This week I had a great opportunity to join my colleagues from the Economic Development department (Director Belkys Perez and International Business Development Representative Leticia Perez) to present our smart city technology infrastructure services and economic opportunities in Coral Gables to a group of innovative tech companies, trade officers and business development representatives from the French part of Canada, at the Miami-Dade Beacon Council (MDBC) and Florida-Canada Chamber of Commerce event "Miami Meets Canada French Tech". We saw inspiring presentations from a cohort of eight promising tech scale-ups that pitched their innovative products and ideas and asked questions about our regional smart city programs and market opportunities for tech businesses.During our city's presentations, I gave a live demo of some of the digital tools and data resources for businesses available in our public platforms (Smart City Hub, Digital Twin, Urban Analytics AI/IoT portal, Citizen Center apps, Digital Experience and Business Explorer platforms...) and talked about the benefits of our broadband and IoT smart district infrastructure for economic growth, digital literacy, job creation and entrepreneurship in our region and our local business ecosystem.MDBC Event: https://lnkd.in/eeCNeV8U Smart City Digital Library: https://lnkd.in/eAMK-Jr #smartcities #innovation #technology #infrastructure #economicdevelopment #GablesTechTank

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