Case Study: Situm achieves real-time geolocation analytics at scale with Tinybird

Situm reduces engineering hours 10x with Tinybird

Situm, an indoor positioning platform that provides tracking and navigation technology for over 6,000 buildings worldwide, faced significant challenges scaling its data processing. With month-on-month growth, it was ingesting over 300 million daily geolocations, and its PostgreSQL and MongoDB databases could not keep up. The engineering team was spending excessive time on database maintenance and tuning rather than product development, and building real-time analytics for customers was difficult and slow.

By implementing Tinybird's data platform, Situm accelerated its data processing and querying. The solution reduced data ingestion lag to under one second and enabled the computation of reports on billions of geolocations with millisecond latency. This resulted in a 10x reduction in engineering hours spent on maintenance. Furthermore, Tinybird's intuitive interface empowered Situm's customer success team to perform self-serve data exploration and generate reports without needing engineering help or complex pipelines.

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