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U.S. Law Enforcement Solves Crimes Faster

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Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics
Applicable Industries	Security & Public Safety
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Real-Time Location System (RTLS) Remote Asset Management
Services	Data Science Services
Challenge	The U.S. government law enforcement agency was facing a challenge in managing the massive influx of criminal justice records. The agency collects arrest reports, traffic citations, probation files, photos, and other criminal records from federal, state, tribal, and local agencies. As early as 2010, the agency was dealing with 1 million records or roughly 10 GB of data daily. However, the agency's disk-bound databases could not ingest, cleanse, and assimilate the information quickly enough. By 2013, data volumes had exploded 10x to 100GB streaming in daily. Read More
About Customer	The customer is a U.S. government law enforcement agency. This agency is responsible for collecting and disseminating a massive repository of criminal justice records to fight, investigate, and prevent crime. The organization brings together arrest reports, traffic citations, probation files, photos, and other criminal records from federal, state, tribal, and local agencies. The agency's goal is to get the right information into the right hands as soon as possible to aid in law enforcement efforts nationwide. Read More
Solution	The agency initially deployed Terracotta Ehcache as a temporary caching solution but soon realized it would need the power of a full-fledged in-memory data management platform. To keep pace with 100GB of new crime data every day—or more than 4GB every hour—the agency created a 500GB in-memory data store using Terracotta BigMemory. BigMemory helps the organization meet its goal of getting the right information into the right hands right as soon as possible. By using BigMemory for high-speed data ingestion, the agency continues to run smoothly, despite a 10x increase in the volume of incoming data. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics

Applicable Industries

Security & Public Safety

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Real-Time Location System (RTLS)

Remote Asset Management

Services

Data Science Services

Challenge

The U.S. government law enforcement agency was facing a challenge in managing the massive influx of criminal justice records. The agency collects arrest reports, traffic citations, probation files, photos, and other criminal records from federal, state, tribal, and local agencies. As early as 2010, the agency was dealing with 1 million records or roughly 10 GB of data daily. However, the agency's disk-bound databases could not ingest, cleanse, and assimilate the information quickly enough. By 2013, data volumes had exploded 10x to 100GB streaming in daily.

About Customer

The customer is a U.S. government law enforcement agency. This agency is responsible for collecting and disseminating a massive repository of criminal justice records to fight, investigate, and prevent crime. The organization brings together arrest reports, traffic citations, probation files, photos, and other criminal records from federal, state, tribal, and local agencies. The agency's goal is to get the right information into the right hands as soon as possible to aid in law enforcement efforts nationwide.

Solution

The agency initially deployed Terracotta Ehcache as a temporary caching solution but soon realized it would need the power of a full-fledged in-memory data management platform. To keep pace with 100GB of new crime data every day—or more than 4GB every hour—the agency created a 500GB in-memory data store using Terracotta BigMemory. BigMemory helps the organization meet its goal of getting the right information into the right hands right as soon as possible. By using BigMemory for high-speed data ingestion, the agency continues to run smoothly, despite a 10x increase in the volume of incoming data.

Impact #1	The agency is now able to manage the massive influx of data more efficiently.
Impact #2	Law enforcement agents nationwide can quickly search through millions of records to investigate cases, detect crime trends and identify hotspots of criminal activity.
Impact #3	The agency is prepared to handle future data streams, which are bound to grow even larger.

Impact #1

The agency is now able to manage the massive influx of data more efficiently.

Impact #2

Law enforcement agents nationwide can quickly search through millions of records to investigate cases, detect crime trends and identify hotspots of criminal activity.

Impact #3

The agency is prepared to handle future data streams, which are bound to grow even larger.

Benefit #1	10x increase in data volume managed efficiently.
Benefit #2	500GB in-memory data store created with BigMemory.
Benefit #3	Able to handle 100GB of new crime data every day.

Benefit #1

10x increase in data volume managed efficiently.

Benefit #2

500GB in-memory data store created with BigMemory.

Benefit #3

Able to handle 100GB of new crime data every day.

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U.S. Law Enforcement Solves Crimes Faster

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