Status Internet Co., Ltd.

Smart IoT Business Group

Bringing data-driven intelligence to product and service ecosystems.

We will integrate its IoT platform device connectivity and management technologies to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), delivering a powerful end-to-end IoT solution that enables rapid time-to-market and business value for companies launching connected products.

Combined with the power of GCP, our technology will enable more companies to tap directly into Google Cloud’s renowned application enablement, AI, machine learning and data analytics capabilities to deliver the outcomes that meet their business needs.

Success in IoT starts with the ability to virtualize any physical device and rapidly connect it with other digital services and virtualized devices, Then, the real value of IoT happens when the data from interconnected devices can be ingested into applications and services able to transform the data in ways that support better decisions and drive business outcomes

Use OpenStack, CloudStack and VMWare to set up the infrastructure of private cloud and hybrid cloud. Develop a secure cloud storage gateway for managing data in a hybrid cloud environment. Use VMWare to deploy and automate cloud infrastructure for major telecom service providers. Network virtualization and cloud support, including integration of LXC containers.

Where' s AI

What AI can do

Benefit Creation

Support system

Service assurance and big data analysis

Client Challenges

Collect real-time data from multiple sources to generate overall insight into the customer experience.
Use insight data to prioritize and trigger specific actions to improve the customer experience and its business outcomes.

Solution

Establish an agile team with skills in the telecommunications wireless field, as well as a customer service assurance platform.
Provide engineering services to enhance the customer's configuration / failure / performance management portfolio.
Upgrade from an Oracle-based backend to a Hadoop-based backend.
Modify data access layer middleware to support Hive and Spark and optimize queries.
Migrate a virtualized environment to Cloudera.
Provide and test extensions for Hadoop-based big data platforms in the customer's customer experience management suite.

Client Benefits

Reduce time to market with the expertise in wireless technology and service assurance and big data analytics.

Client Challenges

Get a middleware (PAAS) platform to provide low latency edge computing.
The platform should support developers and execution environments.

Solution

Bring together a team of technical consultants from a global pool of experts to hold seminars with clients.
Developed an architecture and operational platform.
Developed a set of use case demonstrators. The low latency behavior of the MEC is critical.
Accelerate the creation of poc with a software framework.

Client Benefits

The first mobile edge computing platform and application in the world.
Fast execution leads to a short architecture, development and prototyping phase.
Customers accelerate learning and progress in a highly collaborative way.
Quickly access to next-generation technologists.

Smart shelf

Client Challenges

Retail store rack oems are looking for partners who can create smart shelves to increase customer experience.
Automatically alert and notify store managers to restock products.
Product visibility and real-time information of CPG.
Interest of customer.

Solution

Designed and developed an end-to-end IoT solution.
Ir-based sensor for detecting product availability.
BLE-based tags and IoT gateways.
Use indoor position to locate customers.
Once the customer is close to the product, a promotional reminder will be sent to the customer’s mobile device.
Integrated into the cloud infrastructure.

Client Benefits

Intelligent rack system.
Enhance customer experience.
Real-time monitoring of CPG.

Warehouse car fleet management

Client Challenges

OEM is looking for partners who can help them manage their car fleet remotely.
Track maintenance and service history online, schedule PM reminders and measure fuel economy.
Continuous integration with automated web testing.

Solution

The end-to-end solution we design and development is for remote data collection from vehicles.
Provides more than 20 different reports supported by various browsers.
The entire solution is in line with SAE j1939 and CAN.

Client Benefits

Deploy in a very short time.
Improve car fleet planning with over 20 different reports.
Reduce car fleet operating costs through better car fleet utilization.
Scalable frame-based modular design.

Analyze video quality through the cloud

Client Challenges

Manage the quality of experience of broadband network services.
Provide insights on video quality, popularity, participation and duration.
Handling large changes in traffic with a peak of 10TB storage.

Solution

Build applications using Java, JSP, Hibernate, and MySQL.
Deployed through AWS for automatic scale-out (29 databases + web servers).
Developed a reporting portal with in-depth video analytics.
Build distributed storage capacity across multiple regions.

Solar Plant Automation

Client Challenges

Interconnecting various devices and centrally managing them
Collecting the data from devices

Solution

IoT gateway used to monitor and control various devices in the solar plant from HMI/SCADA system.
Real-time device monitoring & control from HMI/SCADA along with history data collection at SCADA server.
Data analytics at SCADA server on history database to predict solar plant output depending on weather forecast.
Reporting of field device alarm & events towards HMI/SCADA.
Web-based HMI to remotely access and view history data analysis reports & control/monitor solar plant devices.

Client Benefits

20% increase in operational efficiency driven by reduced turnaround time and process optimization.
Reduced downtime required for maintenance of critical components.

Migrating to Industry Standard Protocols

Client Challenges

Migrate from proprietary to industry standard protocol (COSEM).
Design application that can be configured quickly for new meters.
Support read/write/configure operations on multiple parameters.

Solution

Developed desktop application with multi-protocol comms layer.
Designed architecture that adapts to meter firmware changes.
Enabled single-click workflow for pre-defined set of operations.
Enabled engineers to read data logs and event logs from meters.
Enabled debugging capability for advanced users.

Client Benefits

Faster time to market through involvement of subject matter expertise.

Software for Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI)

Client Challenges

Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) for billing, consumption pattern analysis, leak detection etc.
Migration from proprietary to COSEM.
Development of generic communication layer.
Validation of web services application.
Testing of meter data collection (MDC) web UI.
Develop/maintenance of market transaction suite (MTS).

Solution

AMI gateway and network operations maintenance (NOM).
Compliant to target country specifications (Europe).
System maintenance of 2 important product lines with bucket regression & coverage improvements.
Meter software on ARM, PowerPC, MSP-430, OS – Embedded Linux, Nucleus, RTOS.
Drivers for power management, flash driver, NFC, etc.
Protocols – GSM, CDMA, ERT, Zigbee.

Client Benefits

Single Stop shop 4-yr ODC (with 100+ engineers) for this world-leading energy metering devices & infrastructure company.

Vehicle Data Acquisition Systems

Client Challenges

Partner required to upgrade existing Data Acquisition System (DAS)
Expertise required in platform re-design, application programming, embedded firmware, and HDL programming.

Solution

Provided a single point contact for DAS development, maintenance/support and procurement.
Team established for an integrated solution in design, development, maintenance and technical support.
Design and develop of application software.
Driver development.
Support of post processing analysis engines.
CAN verilog HDL soft core and board redesign.

Client Benefits

Improved performance of USB device drivers.
Reduced turn-around time for bug fixing.
Reduced development costs.

Logistics: Unified Tracking Platform

Client Challenges

Each logistics partner had different interface to get tracking information.
Different schemas, endpoints and authentication mechanisms.
Upstream applications needed to be resilient to allow for potentially unreliable partner services.

Solution

Managed end-to-end project life cycle.
Unified of the service interface layer.
Implemented fault tolerance patterns for external service integration.
Added logistics partner onboarding and mapping seamlessly into the system without impacting upstream applications.

Client Benefit

Scaling to add new providers seamlessly without impact to external systems.
Elimination of point-to-point integration between systems & providers.
Exception scenarios from external services handled on the API layer.

Online Platform Transformation

Client Challenges

Transform from a pure-play product/services listing platform to enabling commercial transactions, negotiations, payments and products delivery between buyers and sellers.
Create a better user experience through proactive user notifications and improved search features.

Solution

Provided feature development and API implementation for:

Online payment promotion
Inventory and price management
Checkout
Notification engine
Persisting data into elastic search

Delivered quick team ramp up along with an agile model to meet time to market requirements.

Client Benefits

Improved user experience through an advanced search mechanism.
Launch of client’s value added features enabled within aggressive timelines through development of critical modules.
Support for all premium OS platforms (Android, iOS and Windows).

Policy Enforcement Portal

Client Challenges

Provide a user friendly medium for online game users to post questions and receive answers.
Provide quality experience for users that are currently confused or frustrated without an appropriate platform for communication.
Deal with an increase in support calls and escalations.

Solution

Extended the enforcement landing page (of the gaming platform), showed the enforcement history (both parent and child accounts) and allowed the appeal of a decision.
Migrated all enforcements of previous generation consoles and databases to Azure tables.
Developed required web services to serve front door with Azure data.
Integrated with existing API to get active enforcements of the user.
Enhanced web site to support multi-language (localization) and multiple browsers.

Client Benefits

Reduced the number of customer support calls.
Reduced the number of escalations in online gaming forums.

Game DVR Enforcement Tool

Client Challenges

Develop an application providing an interface to detect content in violation of the terms of use and code of conduct, as well as copyright infringing content, and illegal content.

Solution

Built HTML5 application based on WCF REST architecture.
Created customizable GUI that can be re-used for new apps.
Built state machine that can adapt to changes in system workflow.
Used cloud-based translator to evaluate multi-lingual content.
Built production-grade, high performance application in 6 weeks.
Managed 24x7 product support following deployment.

Client Benefits

Processed 1.7 million enforcement requests in span of two years at the rate of 2500 enforcement per day.
Processed 60 million content moderation reports in two years.
Reduced averaged processing time by 50%.
Automated validation of live video stream.
Delivered a flexible live gaming environment system in 6 weeks.

Enterprise Mobile Application

Client Challenges

Create an application that communicates with an existing Surface tent application on SharePoint using WCF REST services.

Solution

Created a Windows Mobile application for users to perform operations on SharePoint tenting tool.
Developed Windows 8 Mobile UI based on mobile UI standards.
Enabled application to communicate with services hosted in the customer network via Azure Service Bus. It can send or receive the data from the existing Surface tent application through WCF REST API in JSON format.
Delivered robust authentication mechanism based on Active Directory using Azure ACS platform.

Client Benefits

Azure-based authentication and security architecture which can be adopted for any mobile applications to access the in-house hosted services.

VNF Onboarding in Private Cloud

Client Challenges

VNF onboarding in a multi-vendor, private cloud of the client.

Solution

Deploying and verifying OpenStack and OPENCONTRAIL SDN controller in data centers.
Supporting various (pre-production / multiple configuration) VNF deployments in private cloud environment.
Debugging, troubleshooting and determining root-causes of various issues while onboarding VNFs.
Coordinating with other teams and vendors (e.g. client’s solution engineering, Juniper, MIRANTIS) to troubleshoot and debug all VNF issues – including capacity and performance.
Evaluating technologies (e.g. DPDK, SR-IOV) using proof-of-concepts to enhance the performance (e.g. packet throughput) in the cloud environment and propose updated designs.
Creating and delivering technical presentations to design and solution engineering teams.
Reviewing design and requirement documents with client’s team.

Client Benefits

Experienced DevOps team for complex and evolving technologies – OpenStack networking, SDN and VNFs.
Enhanced performance of private cloud through analysis and evaluation of evolving technologies in cloud-based networking.
Improved private cloud deployments and successful handovers to client’s operations team.

Telematics Analytics Platform

Client Challenges

Analyze the driving behavior data and OBD data.
Massively parallel processing using big data components.

Solution

Data ingestion layer based Kafka message broker platform for extremely high throughput. Kafka is used to persist messages during peak hours and thus decouple downstream layers from sudden data surge.
Ingested data are processed in real-time using a framework based on Storm. Storm provides linear scalability.
Cassandra as key data storage layer installed over EC2 for storing all time-series sensor data.
Leveraging SPARKML for near time analytics.
Leveraging Hadoop for integrated batch analytics.
HTML5-based visualization layer.

Client Benefits

Highly scalable solution with support for advanced analytics and multi-tenancy.
Not locked to a single vendor solution like AWS and portable to other cloud environments.

IoT Security – Leveraging PKI for Secure & Authenticated Communication

Client Challenges

Authenticate and encrypt communication between sensors, devices, gateway, cloud application and mobile app against undesired use.
Secure the firmware upgrade process over the air (OTA).
Identify different attack surfaces and design flaws in proposed architecture.

Solution

Conducted secure design and architecture review, threat modeling.
Reviewed PKI components, proposed additional recommendations and consideration to make overall architecture more secure and robust.
Analyzed and identified the different attack surfaces and attack vectors.
Prepared data flow diagrams and threat models for various flows and processes using Microsoft threat modeling tool.
Provided approaches for secure firmware upgrade OTA.

Client Benefits

Recommendations, best practices and insights to be considered while developing and deploying the solution.
Increased speed to market and product quality.

Connected Car

Targeted Scenarios

Access to multi-media content in the cloud / at home from within a car.
Remote control of devices from within a car, e.g. home surveillance cameras, heating controllers.
Tracking family members within the car from remote.
Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) or Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) information exchange, e.g. to warn about an accident or traffic jam ahead on the car‘s route, to inform about roadworks, to perform emergency preparations in case of anticipated collision, to give advise on optimal speed towards next traffic light, …
3G/4G small cells within the car to enhance coverage within the car.
Manage & analyze vehicle data on the cloud.

Solution

Connected car framework supports connectivity to LTE & 3G networks and it supports features like multi-party media streaming, media synchronization, home surveillance and device control.
Existing middleware components of the connected car framework can be used to develop solutions for V2V and V2I projects in the US (WAVE standard) and Europe (C-ITS standard).
LTE/3G small cell framework can be used to provide a customized solution for in-car small cells.
Cloud management framework contains middleware components supporting collection of data from vehicles, e.g. telematics.

Location-Based Targeted Messaging

Client Challenges

Client wanted to roll-out targeted messaging in the retail segment based on device location

Solution

Indoor positioning system combined with operator location data from macro network.
Integration with standard retail analytics platform.
Multiple protocol support – Wi-Fi fingerprinting, BLE beacons, GPRS/LTE network integration.
Precise indoor positioning on the floor map of the shopping mall.
Evolved rule engine to identify the user behavior.
Customized alerts and notifications.

Client Benefits

Proven success in better customer targeting.
Quick time to market as solution evolved using standard IPRs.
Highly appreciated IPS demonstration in multiple industry conferences.

Usage and Billing Telemetry Platform for Enterprise Cloud

Client Challenges

Provide a usage and billing data management platform for homogenous multiple connected enterprise clouds across regions.

Solution

Provided a customized platform for OpenStack-based telemetry service called Ceilometer.
Leveraged cloud orchestration framework with a unified library and platform which provides cloud management, monitoring and orchestration services for different public and hybrid clouds.
Delivered a scalable option for integrating meters, statistics and sampling data and convert them to usable content for billing and usage management.
Implemented more than 72 different meters for usage-based billing.

Client Benefits

Capability to define competitive and creative billing plans to the end users (retail / enterprise) by leveraging usage patterns of computing, networking, VPN, storage etc. resources of the end user.

Converged IoT Platform

Client Challenges

Get a platform that can be quickly adapted to support IoT use cases from different domains.

Solution

Provided licenses of various elements from the software frameworks and solutions portfolio.
IoT Gateway provides connectivity to IoT devices and sensors.
Applications for elderly care, kids tracking and smart parking support faster creation of client’s own applications.
Converged IoT platform adds functionality like device management, device-asset mapping, event management, SW download, interfaces to big data analytics, and multi-tenant support.

Client Benefits

Fast time-to-market to start demos and trials at client’s customer (an operator).

Cloud-Based Services For Global Multi-National Enterprises

Client Challenges

Need for an effective test model framework to accelerate client’s solution delivery into global markets for its MNC customers.
Delayed project with several missing milestones and project key dates due to country-specific design challenges.
Break away from ground up DC model to supplier-managed DCs in host countries.
Country-specific legal, regulatory, billing & tax compliance.

Solution

Performed a pre-build test assessment and delivered process & paper testing prior to DC build.
Established standby resource pool to meet any spike in requirement and accelerate testing.
Involved test automation framework delivering scripted user acceptance & experience testing from remote location.
Built a performance testing capability to test cloud and service elasticity to max limit and concurrencies.

Client Benefits

20% cost reduction through automation and remote testing.
Accelerated time to market and improved product quality.

BSS Over Cloud

Client Challenges

Provide a low-cost BSS solution based on virtualization technologies.
Manage a virtualized environment hosting a full-fledged BSS.
Explore high-availability, fault tolerance and advanced virtualization features.

Solution

Architected the virtualized deployment layout and system sizing.
Set up ESX hosts to abstract resources like processor & memory.
Deployed VMware VCENTER server for configuring, provisioning and managing the virtualized environment.
Configured load balancing policies via VMware DRS.
Configured VMware HA, VMware VMOTION and Storage VMOTION to migrate virtual machines (running BSS applications) from one physical machine to the other, upon server failure.

Client Benefits

Significant CAPEX and OPEX savings through running complete BSS on virtualized hardware.
Better resource utilization during bill cycle runs by workload balancing.
Continuous service availability and integrity through VM migration between physical servers with zero down time.

OpenStack Professional Services

Client Challenges

Development and deployment of an OpenStack based IaaS for client’s customers.

Solution

Designed complete end-to-end blueprints for OpenStack deployment, workload migration, networking design and implementation, benchmarking, testing and go-live for North-American tier-1 cloud providers and enterprises.
Performed OpenStack and Python related development for CLOUDFERRY, including CLOUDFERRY validation and bug fixing.
Reviewed and enhanced the Fuel installation and configuration document and deployed different Fuel plug-ins.
Submitted solutions to official OpenStack projects.
Delivered professional services through a team of OpenStack and virtualization experts that supported the field deployment for client’s customers.

Client Benefits

Cost reduction compared to incumbent service supplier.
Accelerated time-to-market through agile testing and risk-based assurance.

Product Development - Secure Cloud Storage Gateway

Client Challenges

Development of a secure storage gateway for managing data in a hybrid cloud environment in which this gateway appliance would sit at the enterprise edge providing mount points for the NFS/CIFS clients on one side and act as a forward proxy for cloud storage services like AWS S3, MS Azure / Google Cloud.

Solution

Created cached storage volumes exposing NFS mount points to enterprise and integrated packet acceleration technique DPDK in NFS handling.
Translated file based interfaces into cloud storage REST APIs; use SSL offloading to accelerate TLS/SSL connectivity cloud storage.
Implement caching and deduplication using chipset provided technology.
Implemented security of data-in-rest using AES-NI.
Implemented unified Key management – use TPM and HSM (on-premises or cloud-HSM).
Developed appliance for ESX, Citrix XenServer, Hyper-V, OpenStack environment.

Client Benefits

Customer was able to demonstrate usage of chipset acceleration techniques in a datacentre environment.