Tier 1: 18th Street Nexus Point

With an invitation from the People's Garden in downtown Merced, we have demonstrated how a node is a location and there are few size constraints.   The locations can be just as robust without the space to install layers of technology.  Continued community interaction with community business owners can provide the impetus to innovate beyond any challenge in a given community.  For example, is a robust surveillance image and video capture a means to deter some of the reported challenges downtown?  The best individuals to answer this and many other questions live and work in that community, downtown Merced.  The node has few limits to technology integration.