Case Study: Hakusan achieves near real-time earthquake safety insights with SAP HANA

How Can a Mobile App Help Save Lives in the Next Big Earthquake

Hakusan, a high-tech company in Japan, faced the challenge of needing to quickly detect the safety and resilience of building structures after an earthquake. They lacked the speed to process and analyze the immense volume of data from hundreds of thousands of seismometers and needed a way to turn their mobile app prototype into a live, data-driven network. To address this, they turned to vendor SAP for a solution.

SAP implemented its SAP HANA platform to handle the massive data influx from potentially 100,000 devices. This solution provided near real-time analysis to quickly and accurately report structural integrity, accelerating data processing by 75%. The data-driven insight from SAP helps Hakusan protect millions of people by giving government officials and first responders the information needed to safeguard lives after an earthquake.

Hakusan

Yoichi Tanaka

Chief Technical Officer