Fastned accelerates the path toward sustainable mobility
FastnedDatabricks SQL · Delta Lake
Fastned, a European fast EV-charging network, migrated from AWS Redshift to the Databricks Data + AI Platform to unify charger-generated data, maintenance, customer support, app usage and third-party traffic data, enabling near real-time streaming analytics across its Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, France, Switzerland and UK stations. The company achieved 99%+ network uptime and tripled its data capacity within months while expanding from 120 to 225+ charging stations.
Overview
Fastned, a European fast EV-charging network, migrated from AWS Redshift to the Databricks Data + AI Platform to unify charger-generated data, maintenance, customer support, app usage and third-party traffic data, enabling near real-time streaming analytics across its Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, France, Switzerland and UK stations. The company achieved 99%+ network uptime and tripled its data capacity within months while expanding from 120 to 225+ charging stations.
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Inspect the highlighted sourceThe challenge
Fastned's data team quickly realized that with an increase in data collection points across its network, the legacy AWS Redshift data warehouse would not be able to meet its growing needs, and wide-scale analytics was hindered by high costs.
The solution
With data centralized in the lakehouse, Fastned uses Databricks SQL to democratize insights so that all teams can create their own dashboards. The lakehouse gives Fastned the tools to plan for the future by helping it do analytics and machine learning at scale and in an automated way, and to detect issues and act on them quickly.
Reported business value
Since adopting Databricks Data + AI Platform, Fastned has tripled its data capacity in a matter of months, contributing to its ability to quickly expand its network from 120 to more than 225 fast charging stations. The data team is now able to analyze charger utilization data within days.
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