Andrew Abumoussa thinks he’s found a use for all the inane info posted by over-sharers on Twitter and Facebook, and by end of the summer he hopes to get $100,000 for his idea.
At one point or another, most every social media user has read a tweet about their friend’s love of their new outfit or their cousin’s unkickable case of the sniffles and thought, ‘Who cares?’
Abumoussa is banking on clothing manufacturers or health industry workers caring, so he and his partners at Scenedipity Intelligence are creating a way to aggregate and deliver that information.
One of the nation’s only gigabit networks is now the communications force behind a new smart grid completed last week in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The utility company EPB installed its last IntelliRupter last Tuesday to finish automating its power distribution network. That means if the community suffers a power outage anywhere, EPB can re-route power automatically to continue the flow of electricity. The utility company isn’t the only one getting aggressive with smart grid technology, but it does find itself on the leading edge of communications networks. The same fiber infrastructure that underlies Chattanooga’s heralded gigabit Internet service also drives the region’s utility communications.
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In partnership with S&C Electric Company and DOE, Chattanooga, Tennessee’s EPB hit a milestone in its smart grid initiative this week with the installation of the final S&C IntelliRupter® PulseCloser, a major component of EPB’s self-healing grid. The IntelliRupter is expected to cut power outage duration by 40%.
EPB is one of the biggest publicly-owned electric utilities in the country and also has another distinction: “Home to the country’s most automated smart grid of its size, Chattanooga is a unique success story in how the smart grid can be an economic engine, reduce power outages, improve reliability and prepare for future power demands,” said EPB CEO Harold DePriest.
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Chattanooga, with its low unemployment and increasing property values, is showcased as something of an economic turnaround story in today’s Wall Street Journal.
The city’s riverfront development, Internet connections that can reach speeds 200 times the U.S. average, and the attraction of employers Amazon and Volkswagen are touted as evidence the city has undergone a rebirth in the last 50 years.
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The Gig City was featured in The Wall Street Journal Tuesday, thanks to Tom Edd Wilson, president of the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce, and his team.
The article, which appeared on page A6, is called “Chattanooga Reinvents Itself, at Its Own Pace.”
The article highlights local economic success stories, mentioning Volkswagen, Amazon and Alstom.
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Chattanooga TN is quickly becoming know for a lot more than just their “Choo Choo”, there is a tech scene forming in their close-knit community that plans to disrupt the rest of the U.S. One of the backbones to their tech scene is “the gig”. That’s how the Chattanoogians refer to their 1gb fiber optic internet that already covers 150,000 homes and businesses and 600 square miles. It’s big and it’s fast.
The “Gig” gives Chattanooga a one up over many other areas. In fact San Francisco doesn’t even have 1gb internet yet.
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During an evening telecast in 1969, newsman Walter Cronkite made a startling announcement: Chattanooga, Tenn., had the worst air pollution in America. It proved to be an alarming call to action for civic leaders, who have been working to distance their region from a bygone era of industrialism ever since.
In many ways, the city has succeeded. Chattanooga’s well-kept downtown and waterfront have been revitalized. The Tennessee Aquarium, billed the “largest freshwater aquarium in the world,” opened in 1992. The city’s minor-league baseball team christened a new stadium in 2000. And the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga campus continues to grow. Music festivals, art museums and rib joints have come to town — the trappings of a cosmopolitan community rather than a blue-collar dumping ground.
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It’s great to see people who are really passionate about what they do (or in most cases I see, what they WANT to do). I get to see it every day at the CO.LAB, as I work to help entrepreneurs get their ideas off the ground.
I am blessed to work alongside people who are passionate about their venture, passionate about their team, passionate about innovation, and passionate about their community (mine is Chattanooga).
My recent experiences at SXSW reminded me that Chattanoogans are not alone in their passion for these things.
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2011 was a year of unprecedented spending for smart grid project ramp-up and deployment in North America — catalyzed by federal stimulus funding, aggressive renewable and energy efficiency standards in the United States and provincial policy in Canada.
After reviewing project nominations for several of the most innovative utilities in North America, Greentech Media/GTM Research is pleased to recognize the following awardees as “The Networked Grid - Top Ten Utility Smart Grid Deployments in North America.”
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A recent article by Chloe Morrison on Nooga.com, highlighted the inquiries and envy from all over the globe about Chattanooga’s awesome community fiber network.
According to Rick Barrett of the Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee is one of many admirers with wandering eyes that keep taking a peak at Tennessee. No wonder! The “Gig City” has set the gold standard for connectivity.
Additionally, the city has cleverly capitalized marketing the opportunities to spread the word about their network and to attract more economic opportunities.
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Chattanooga TN is opening up their Gig City this summer for one of the biggest start up and student tech competitions in the United States outside of New York, Silicon Valley or Las Vegas.
The Gig Tank is part start up accelerator, part think tank, part contest and part summer camp. The Gig Tank is split into two main parts the Entrepreneur’s Accelerator and the Student Think Tank.
Entrepreneurs are invited to apply here to come to Chattanooga TN, the Gig City, from May 14th to August 16th. Each team selected to come to the Gig Tank will receive $15,000 in investment capital to spend the summer in Chattanooga.
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During this year’s SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, Eric and I got the chance to meet some new hustlers from around the world. One particular group we had the pleasure of spending time with and hearing about the ability to hustle was the team from Chattanooga, Tennessee. These guys are great. They’ve got a solid university behind them, a growing group of entrepreneurs wanting to be noticed. Guys, you’ve been noticed!
Can’t wait to see all the exciting projects and startup to come out of this area.
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This week during SXSW we learned of all sorts of the new startup scenes around the country, even the world. One in particular we talked with was startup accelerator The Gig Tank out of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Chattanooga has recently begun to blossom in the world of design, startups, and tech. So here’s an infographic breaking down some of the exciting things to come summer 2012.
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J. Wayne Cropp has devoted the past almost six years to heading The Enterprise Center (EC), an organization responsible for leading the City of Chattanooga’s and Hamilton County’s technology-based economic development initiatives.
In a recent interview with teknovation.biz, the President and Chief Executive Officer reviewed EC’s evolution in a community regularly cited for its innovative initiatives, the most recent being the “Gig City” activity that was spotlighted by teknovation.biz on March 2.
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Gig Prize leaders have extended the deadline to apply for the competition, which is aimed at finding the best way to utilize Chattanooga’s unique high-speed Internet.
“We extended it for South by Southwest,” Gig City Managing Director John Wilson said.
South by Southwest is an annual conference in Austin, Texas, that brings together leaders in film, music and technology and acts as a launching pad for creative content, according to the event’s website.
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Some leaders in Wisconsin are envious of the Gig City’s high-speed Internet, according to an article in the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel.
The article uses Chattanooga as an example of how far Wisconsin has to go in the “technology race.”
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The guys at the Lamp Post Group in Chattanooga, Tenn., have an embarrassment of riches when it comes to bandwidth. The city boasts the first real gigabit speeds in the U.S., and today is the deadline for folks to apply to come to the city this summer to build applications that can take advantage of the network’s awesome speeds. But there’s a problem too.
The Internet is reciprocal, and without other folks with gigabit connections, Jack Studer, a managing partner at Lamp Post, is wondering who the students, developers and hackers that plan to come play on the network will talk to.
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What would you do if had if you had an Internet service that could download a 2-hour movie in about 5 seconds?
You could, of course, watch a bunch of movies. City officials and investors in Chattanooga, Tenn., hope you have some other creative business ideas that take advantage of its 1-gigabit-per second Internet.
That is, the city has an Internet that is 20 to 200 times faster than what’s available to customers anywhere else in the country. They want innovators to figure out what to do with all that speed.
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Citizens in Chattanooga, Tennessee, have access to one-gigabit-per-second Internet—that’s 100 times the U.S. national average, and fast enough to download a two-hour movie in about five seconds. The only question is: what to do with it?
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Like Austin and Boulder, Chattanooga has the complete tech trinity of great outdoors, hip coffee shops, and venture capitalists. Starting in March, the city will host the biggest one-gig competition ever.
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