Case Study: a U.S. telecommunications company operating in 18 states achieves real-time pet tracking at scale with ScienceSoft

a U.S. telecommunications company operating in 18 states processes 30,000+ IoT events per second with ScienceSoft

The customer, a U.S. telecommunications company operating in 18 states, wanted to launch a new service for pet owners using IoT trackers. Their challenge was to build a highly scalable big data solution that could process real-time location data and media content, send instant notifications for critical events, and handle constant user growth. They engaged ScienceSoft to develop this solution.

ScienceSoft delivered a cloud-based big data solution using Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, and MongoDB. The resulting system successfully processes over 30,000 events per second from one million devices, enabling real-time tracking, media transfer, and instant push notifications for pet owners. The vendor provided the client with an easily scalable architecture to accommodate future growth.