Georgia city explores its curiosity with 5G-enabled IoT ‘sandbox’

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The City of Peachtree Corners, GA celebrated the opening of the Curiosity Lab at Peachtree Corners, a 5G-enabled autonomous mobility and smart city living lab designed to test the next generation of internet of things (IoT) technologies and solutions.
Set in a 500-acre commercial office park, the site includes a 1.5-mile autonomous vehicle (AV) test track that features curves, a 13% elevation change and shade from tall trees.
Early stage IoT, smart city and mobility startups are welcome to apply for a resident membership at the site to test their innovations.
The site’s ribbon cutting — which was done mid-air by a drone — kicked off this week’s inaugural Smart City Expo Atlanta event, enabling leaders from around the world to visit the testbed and experience innovations first-hand, such as Local Motors’ self-driving shuttle Olli.
While AVs are a central focus for the testbed, the site will welcome all smart city-facing innovations including drones, smart poles, electric vehicle infrastructure and logistics testing.
Curiosity Lab Executive Director Betsy Plattenburg said the site is “open to all kinds of things,” as long as the technologies meet regulatory and insurance requirements.
Plattenburg explained to Smart Cities Dive that the Lab purchased a policy specific to the testing environment to reduce risk for the Lab and its members.
This test track is also unique in that it is 100% funded by the City of Peachtree Corners, a seven-year-old city with a motto that reads, “Innovative and Remarkable.”
The city owns 100% of the roads, rights of way and sidewalks within the test environment, therefore making decisions in the testbed is much simpler than at sites where the roads are owned by multiple jurisdictions, she said.
Plattenburg emphasized that the Lab is not trying to make money off the testbed directly, but instead hopes that making the site “a sandbox where people can come play” will boost the local econom

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