Dheeraj Remella, Director of Solutions Architecture at VoltDB explains how to use real-time data to make more informed decisions, decrease event to action latency and limit downtime. He’ll discuss four in-production customer case studies and highlight how implementing VoltDB has dramatically increased competitive advantage for avoiding unplanned downtime, asset tracking, utilities - smart meter management, and fleet management

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UNDERSTANDING THE TOP
FOUR USE CASES FOR IOT
Dheeraj Remella
Director of Solutions Architecture
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COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
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DATA LANDSCAPE IS CHANGING
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VOLTDB OVERVIEW
Heritage Innovation
Mike Stonebraker
Other Stonebraker Companies
Co-Founded by the 2014 ACM
Turing Award recipient
• In-Memory (but data is durable to disk)
• Scale-Out shared-nothing architecture
• Reliability and fault tolerance
• SQL + Java with ACID
• Hadoop and data warehouse integration
• Open source and commercially licensed (24X7)
Speed
World Record Cloud Benchmark:
YCSB (Yahoo Cloud Serving Benchmark) 2.4m
million tps (transactions per second)
Technology Customers
Success
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USE CASES IN TODAY’S SESSION
• Avoid Unplanned Downtime
• Asset Tracking
• Smart Meter Management
• Fleet Management
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AVOIDING UNPLANNED DOWNTIME
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TRUE DOWNTIME COSTS
• E-commerce businesses lose $42,000 to $110,000 per hour from
data center outages
• Power plants lose two ways: cost of maintenance between
$200,000 to $400,000 and revenue loss between $475,000
(125MW F-class) and $775,000 (250MW F-class) per year
• Automotive manufacturers can lose over 1 Million dollars per
month from True Downtime Costs (TDC)
• Oil and Gas equipment: reactive maintenance can save over 10
Million Dollars compared to scheduled maintenance in a year
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WHAT CAN IOT DO TO AVOID/REDUCE TDC
• Collecting health metrics data from sensors – Event/Response:
Responding to events appropriately can be automated
• Taking preventative measures with actuators – The response to an
anomalous event immediately in real-time can prevent the system before a
breakdown
• Dashboards showing current health metrics
• A real-time decision making system that can process data from multiple
streams in real-time to prescribe preventative measures
• Continuous analysis of data to create new insights
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USE CASE – STORAGE DEVICE MANUFACTURER
VM Metrics
Host Metrics
Disk Array Metrics
Event
Separator
Process
Apache Kafka
VM Metrics
Host Metrics
Disk Array Metrics
Ingest,
process,
decide and
aggregate
VoltDB Cluster
Data Lake/
Analytics store
From Installed Disk Arrays
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BENEFITS OF REAL-TIME DECISIONS
• Sustainable performance that scales
• Non-stop availability – 99.9997% measured uptime
• Lowering the total cost of ownership by 33% to 66%
• 9 out of 10 issues were detected before the symptoms became
apparent
• Automated decision making removed the need for level-1 and
level-2 support engineers
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ASSET TRACKING
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WHY TRACK ASSETS
• Know where they are (GPS, RFID – Active/Passive) – Supply Chain
Management
• Inventory control (Barcodes, RFID) Retailers lose nearly 60 Billion dollars
in 2015. Employee theft is the #1 concern.
• Indoor customer experience enhancement (Wi-Fi, IR and Bluetooth)
• Asset condition checking (NFC)
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USE CASE – WALKER DIGITAL TABLE SYSTEMS
RFID Enabled
Gaming Chips
Smart Game
Tables
VoltDB Cluster Apache Kafka
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BENEFITS OF REAL-TIME ASSET TRACKING
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SMART METER MANAGEMENT
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CHALLENGES UTILITIES ARE FACING
• Lack of real-time insight into consumers’ spending of the utility
• Leading to ineffective/sub-optimal grid management
• Need to reduce CO2 footprint
• Eliminate inaccurate billing
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USE CASE – UK SMART METERING
Smart Meters
Meter Reading
Collectors
VoltDB Cluster
Decision
making and
notifications
Data Lake
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BENEFITS OF SMART METER MANAGEMENT
• Consumers get real time energy costs
• Real-time billing
• Influence the consumers’ energy utilization patterns based on tariffs
• Supports demand response techniques for the utilities companies
• Effective grid management
• Management of a large smart meter installation base – 53 million smart
meters
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FLEET MANAGEMENT
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CHALLENGES IN FLEET MANAGEMENT
• Driver safety and productivity
• Fuel utilization management
• Avoid unplanned downtime
• Managing reactive maintenance on in-service fleet vehicles
• Maintaining visibility of in-transit vehicles
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USE CASE – MINING EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT
Telemetry data
Location
services data
Event collating
message
queue
VoltDB Cluster
for correlation
and
notification
Data Lake/
Data
Warehouse
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BENEFITS OF REAL-TIME FLEET MANAGEMENT
• Establishing visibility of the fleet location in real-time
• Notification of nearest safety zones in case of catastrophes
• Improved efficiency in fuel utilization
• Fleet vehicles health metrics enabling just-in-time reactive
maintenance
• Geo-fencing of the fleet vehicles
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COMMON TRAITS OF REAL-TIME NEEDS
• Ability to ingest data created at a high velocity
• Need to process each event data or a group of events representing a
meaningful session
• Apply complex policies and logic to make decisions immediately
• Notify downstream subsystems to take immediate action
• Operationalizing big data insights into real-time event processing
VOLTDB COMBINES THESE CAPABILITIES INTO A
SINGLE PLATFORM
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DELIVERING BUSINESS VALUE ACROSS INDUSTRIES
Smart grid/meters, asset tracking & management
IoT Platforms, Energy, Sensor
Ad optimization, audience segmenting, customer servicePersonalize, Customize, Target
Billing/rights management, subscriber data, etc.
Risk, market data management, customer mgt
Data pipeline, system performance, streaming ETL
Telco
Financial Services
Infrastructure, Dashboards, KPIs

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Q & A
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THANK YOU
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