The Services
From BuildTheOpenMesh
The course will coordinate and gateway to a number of external partner’s software offerings from Time-Warner Cable, AT&T, UH, the Cleveland Clinic, MetroHealth, the local police departments and OneCommunity.
The Beta Block project external partners who will be providing on-line services via the fiber optic connectivity to the residents of Hessler St. will provide these services free of charge and be entirely responsible for these services themselves.
OneCommunity will provide a data center and the head-end connection onto the WWW.
The project's dashboard will act as web browser based‘gateways’ to these services.
These services include:
- Television programming (from either Time-Warner, AT&T and/or Ashtabula Cable)
- Security Cameras – from local police – enabling residents to see what’s going on outside of their homes or apartments
- Smart Grid energy monitoring – for creating smart, green homes (intelligent thermostats from InTwine )
- University Hospitals – health program and services
- Cleveland Clinic – health program and services
- MetroHealth – health program and services
All of these web services will be separate from the dashboard software given to each resident. Over time, integration with these web services will be achieved, starting with establishing a Digital City ID utilizing OpenID – which would federate the membership systems of all these services into a single sign-on environment.
