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Fastned accelerates the path toward sustainable mobility
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Fastned accelerates the path toward sustainable mobility
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Description
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.
…e-intensive to scale and expensive for democratizing insights across its teams. With the Databricks Data + AI Platform, Fastned has a unified view into all its data — all charger-generated data, maintenance intervention, customer support and app usage data, as well as third-party data such as traffic trends — and a common platform for all employees to tap into insights collected from i…
…ortation Award-winning EV charging experience powered by lakehouse architecture 99%+ Network uptime ensures industry-leading station reliability Additional use cases Powering Europe’s Top EV Charging Network - Fastned uses D…
Company
Fastned
…d to drive EV adoption. Scaling a data architecture at the pace of the industry Fastned is a pioneer in the deployment of fast-charging infrastructure for EVs. As early as 2012, the company began deploying its charging stations across the…
Industry
Energy
…vers with the freedom to go electric anytime, anywhere. Share this post Details Industry : Energy Use Case : Data Warehousing Cloud : AWS Product : Databricks SQL , Delta Lake R…
Problem
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.
…actively prepare to meet rising demand without compromising quality of service. 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 while Tableau was being leveraged to deliver insights, wide-scale analytics…
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.
…e a unified view of all its data readily available in a single source of truth. With data centralized in the lakehouse, Fastned uses Databricks SQL to democratize insights so that all teams can create their own dashboards and start leveraging data to help move the business forward. The data team is n…
…nd its network from 120 to more than 225 fast charging stations – and growing. “The lakehouse gives us the tools to plan for the future by helping us do analytics and machine learning at scale and in an automated way,” said Schuermans. “A cloud data warehouse would have fallen short in meeting o…
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.
…electric vehicle drivers and accelerate the transition to sustainable mobility. Since adopting Databricks Data + AI Platform, it has tripled its data capacity in a matter of months. This rise in data has contributed to its ability to quickly expand its network…
…eir own dashboards and start leveraging data to help move the business forward. The data team is now able to analyze charger utilization data within days. “With Databricks, we have been able to structure streaming pipelines and create…
AI capabilities
Predictive Analytics
…nd its network from 120 to more than 225 fast charging stations – and growing. “The lakehouse gives us the tools to plan for the future by helping us do analytics and machine learning at scale and in an automated way,” said Schuermans. “A cloud data warehouse would have fallen short in meeting o…
Technology
Databricks SQL, Delta Lake
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Deployment model
AWS
…anywhere. Share this post Details Industry : Energy Use Case : Data Warehousing Cloud : AWS Product : Databricks SQL , Delta Lake Ready to get started? Try Databricks for…
Deployment options
cloud
…anywhere. Share this post Details Industry : Energy Use Case : Data Warehousing Cloud : AWS Product : Databricks SQL , Delta Lake Ready to get started? Try Databricks for…
Headline outcome
…ortation Award-winning EV charging experience powered by lakehouse architecture 99%+ Network uptime ensures industry-leading station reliability Additional use cases Powering Europe’s Top EV Charging Network - Fastned uses D…
Use case type
Analytics augmentation
…available in a single source of truth. With data centralized in the lakehouse, Fastned uses Databricks SQL to democratize insights so that all teams can create their own dashboards and start leveraging data to help move the business forward. The data team is n…