GApp
Real-time events analysis platform for traffic information.
project
real-time events analysis platform
technologies
REST API
GeoJsons
GTFS
Google Maps
Docker on ECS cluster & Lambda functions
MongoDB
Datex II
First release
2016
What is Radio Traffic Agency?
Radio Traffic is part of the ACI Group and it's specialized in
traffic data and news. The media it uses to communicate are audio
and video news, dynamic maps and Web applications. Their goal is to
keep users up to date on traffic data and to publish the latest
information about mobility conditions.
Traffic information is provided in real time through interactive
maps and navigation services, with a direct and always updated data
flow.
Targets
The management of a large multitude of data, such as those on
national mobility, can be an important challenge.
Radio Traffic turned to us because they had critical issues with
their legacy software: an expensive maintenance, a fast loss of
effectiveness of the technologies used, security risks and a
excessive Time to Market. They had an immediate need for a platform
of new generation!
The main goal was to develop a stable and fast platform, capable of
supporting a bulk of data, coming from different sources, and
outgoing data for all connected users from different devices on
different platforms: they wanted to enter the "API Economy" age.
How to create such complex software?
Organizing activities in short two-week development cycles each, to optimize the product's inception.
Solution
To meet our customer's needs we created GArt, that in just over 6 months became a complete and operational solution.
We have built an infrastructure capable of managing and
presenting contents and events to a very high number of
users.
GArt retrieves information from external sources: municipal police,
118 emergency, motorway concessionaires, CCISS, ANAS, ACI, ENAC and
Civil Protection.
These data are connected via APIs to different channels, such as the
web portal, totems, newsletters and mobile applications.
Technologies
GArt is a product distributed as a microservices architecture,
deployed in the Cloud on AWS and developed in Continuous Delivery
for a rapid time to market.
The user interface is developed through Angular, while the backend
in Java and Node.js.
The system is packaged through Docker containers on a ECS cluster and it is built on top of our main product, called RESTHeart, that in turns exposes a MongoDB Atlas Cloud database via a full REST API.
