Business View Magazine | November 2019

315 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2019 PEACHTREE CORNERS , GEORGI A directly into the Lab and are using it for their own testing. We’ve recently announced partnerships with Georgia Tech and Delta Airlines to test here. We’ve also had companies move into unoccupied buildings in Tech Park, instead of other locations in Atlanta, because of Curiosity Lab. So, we know that we’ve already benefited, to a degree, from that and, going forward, we’ll be able to track the economic dividends we’re achieving.” BVM: What are the most important points you’d like to share about Curiosity Lab at Peachtree Corners? Plattenburg: “We have interest from around the world and we are inviting people to come in and test regardless of their current location, which is an exciting prospect and helps us to meet our economic development goals in the city.” Johnson: “We have existing 5G wireless infrastructure available in the Lab for free. The facilities themselves and all the other technology – DSRC (Dedicated short-range communications), smart street lights, smart traffic signals, all looped in together to a network operation – are also free. We do not require intellectual property ownership of anything created here. And we respect proprietary confidentiality. We are the only governmental entity that regulates and coordinates usage of this living laboratory. “In addition to that, we have a public street, in this case the Living Lab, that has general liability insurance covering the general public and all the testing of these technologies. It is insured for driverless vehicles, drones, cyber security, data, etc., because the public is interacting with these entities. When you combine all those factors, we can confidently say that this is the first living laboratory of its kind in the world. And we are very proud of that.”