Elastic{ON} Tour 2017 New York : Elastic @ BAI Canada: Analyzing a Football Stadium Worth of Wi-Fi Data Every Hour

Elastic{ON} Tour New York - November 9, 2017

BAI Canada has built a public Wi-Fi offering in both the Toronto and NYC subway systems, where roughly 2 million unique devices totaling 14 million log-ons per month use the service. Their implementation of the Elastic Stack handles around 10 million new records per day and growing. Learn how BAI Canada has designed, architected, and run the Elastic Stack to help report on and monitor usage in one of the largest types of Wi-Fi deployments.

Jeremy Foran | Technology Specialist | Transit Wireless

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1. 1 Jeremy Foran Date, Technology Specialist, Transit Wireless Analyzing a Full Football Stadium Worth of WiFi Data Every Hour
2. 2 USA CANADA HONG KONG AUSTRALIA New York Boston Toronto Hong Kong 99% coverage nation-wide UK London Majority owner About BAI Communications Bringing the connection to our world BAI Communications is a global, independent, infrastructure owner and operator. We design, build and operate high- quality, robust, communications networks including cellular, Wi-Fi, television and radio broadcasting. We operate in the USA, Canada, UK, Hong Kong and Australia, designing and managing networks that are keeping people connected.
3. 3 Our vision for a connected transit system • Enabling smarter cities
4. 4 Transit Wireless & MTA • Transit Wireless is an industry leader in provisioning advanced cellular, Wi-Fi and fiber technology solutions • 27-year executive license with the MTA to design, construct, own, operate the most complex broadband communication transit system globally • Completed accelerated deployment of complex, neutral host DAS system in December 2016, two years ahead of schedule • Market recognition as a leading North American PPP —tax-payer neutral
5. 5 • WiFi Networks – (S) Single Access Point – (M) Small Office – (L) Enterprise – (XL) Football Stadiums • RF planning / capacity • Resource management • User Behaviour Will It Scale?
6. 6 6 TRANSIT WIRELESS WIFI™ THE NETWORK – Snapshot 280 Subway Stations 3K+ Wi-Fi Access Points 120+ Miles of Fiber $300M+ Infrastructure Investment 10.6M+ Wi-Fi sessions 1.3M+ Unique Users Per Month 450+TBs Data Consumed Monthly THE SERVICE – Oct 2017
7. 7 7 Users would interact with the brand
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10. 10 10 The “Algorithm” goes quiet…
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12. 12 Obstacles • Reports were canned and rudimentary • There was no APIs to integrate with our current systems / dashboards / reports • Getting questions answered required code to be written
13. 13 Previous Reporting Capabilities Aggregated results, really hard to understand how numbers were being derived or calculated 1 2 3 Low granularity; daily No ability to “drill down”; Per Station
14. 14 Requirements Versatility Speed Accessibility • We don’t know the future • Horizontally scalable • Schema-less • Answer questions the day they are asked • Millisecond Queries • Small learning Curve • RESTful API • Library Support • Easy to integrate
15. 15 My Introduction to the Elastic stack
16. 16 Current Reporting Capabilities
17. 17 …You can’t take this away… Marketing Department
19. 19 Performance
20. 20 Where are we now? Did we achieve our objectives?
21. 21 Sales Team • Able to answer questions themselves • Automate reports for customers and stakeholders • Per station sales and optimization
22. 22 Operations
23. 23 Development
24. 24 Excel Reports
25. 25 Alexa Let me Alexa that for you……
26. 26 Real Time RESTful GPS Feed
27. 27 What is next?
28. 28 Machine Learning