Panasonic Corporation is a technology giant primarily known in the area of consumer electronics, but its portfolio of products and services extends much further than this, with automotive and avionic systems, industrial systems, as well as home renovation and construction. For this customer story, we head to Panasonic Corporation in North America, who unveiled Cirrus by Panasonic in 2018. Cirrus by Panasonic is a traffic management center solution designed to help Departments of Transportation and other roadway operators manage roadways efficiently through data and analysis, to improve safety and mobility on the roads. It’s an open development platform for sharing, collaborating, defining, and standardizing the future of smart mobility – and it's all about (a lot of) data. It's therefore no surprise that the Data Science & Analytics (DS&A) team at Panasonic plays a crucial role in developing and advancing Cirrus.
The Challenge
Cirrus by Panasonic supports both Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) and Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X), and integrates data from existing Department of Transportation sources. With a whopping 105 million connected cars producing 20 terabytes of data each hour alone, the Data Science & Analytics (DS&A) team is faced with the daunting task of ensuring that the data made available through its open ecosystem, which is used by partner organizations and third parties to develop additional services and applications, is 100% reliable. After all, data quality is critical to ensuring the accuracy of insights derived from connected vehicles and roadside equipment. For this crucial role, the Data Science & Analytics team chose Soda Cloud.
The Solution
Cirrus by Panasonic leans on a comprehensive technology stack to ensure efficient data processing and quality. This includes Prefect for orchestration, Snowflake for data storage, dbt for raw data transformation, Soda Cloud for anomaly detection and data quality testing, and Tableau for visualization. The team chose Soda Cloud for its seamless connectivity and integration with all the other tools, as well as its scalability and managed services, which allow the team to focus on product development rather than infrastructure management.
As the Cirrus platform is responsible for detecting and responding to critical safety and mobility events, any data quality issues can have a huge impact on users such as the various Department of Transport customers and, of course, individual drivers. This makes Soda Cloud mission critical to keep data accurate, secure and up to date. With Soda Cloud, it's possible to configure data volume triggers and deploy them quickly and easily for each unique deployment or data type. This helps to ensure that any unexpected changes or data volumes are monitored and alerted, improving data quality and providing more accurate insights for real world applications.
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