Real Time Systems management & fault mitigation
Customers who need their entire system infrastructure online and running at optimum performance (such as some major online retail Customers) see a need for Oracle CEP to collect and analyze events occurring from all event enabled system artifacts, such as SNMP traps indicating hardware status, Operating system warning and error events (log “tailing”), middleware infrastructure events, such as those from EDN, ESB and even events triggered directly from the executing critical Applications. These can all be filtered, aggregated, correlated and causality determined by OCEP to proactively ensure system viability, provide alerts on infrastructure latencies, and if HardWar is issuing known errors, which generally proceed a typical major shutdown scenario, then application load can be redirected to other stable systems.
Border Security , Transportation Logistics
We see many use cases with vendors who produce drone tracking sensors, facial and resource imaging technologies who want to leverage Oracle CEP to take the feeds from these devices and from many other event sources (such as GPS from surveillance vehicles, weather and terrain conditions, persisted alien historical movement tends) analyze in real time, and initiate immediate response systems. Government entities, such as Immigration agencies around the world are seeking to improve their real time insight and automated visibility with such solutions. Transportation companies can also leverage similar solutions with GPS and satellite feeds to monitor truck and car movements, improving "in auto response systems" types of solutions with far more personalized capabilities. Location of cargo ships (using GPS) with real time monitoring of the condition of each individual container and the goods within (temperature and humidity sensors etc). In the airline industry, real time passenger flow through the airport is another use case, where Oracle CEP can directly interact with the movement flow of passengers, such as slowing down or speeding up the “travelators”, controling movements around the immigration areas or increasing revenue by retaining customers for a certain amount of time in the duty free areas. “NOT” event tracking for lost bags is an Oracle CEP solution, where using potentially, RFID tagging, bags can be monitored from the check-in counters right up to the containers on the plane and when one goes missing (i.e an event does not happen within a specific time period) then Oracle CEP can be used to trigger downstream BPM/BAM systems.
Dynamic Aircraft Maintenance.
Oracle CEP can be used for analyzing event data directly from any types of aircraft, such as fighter jets, as soon as they land, and together with historical trending event data, the flight readiness can be instantly determines for the next flight or mission.
RealTime Slot machine usage “persuasion”
Gaming machine manufacturers have use cases to ‘encourage” gamblers to stay playing at slot machines with real timedetermined available concessional offers. Oracle CEP can be used to monitor the play of a user, determine loss/gain levels and monitor immediately available facilities to offer, for example, a discounted meal in the nearby restaurant in 20 minutes or a free room if play continues for 1 more hour etc.
Many use cases for banks/credit card companies to augment existing solutions with analysis of real time fraudulent activities, anticipating trends prior to successive attempts. These types of use cases span the entire financial services industry and could redically reduce the incidents of identify frauds by monitoring for non-typical personal usage profiles and issues immediate alerts
Utilities - Smart Meters, Oil Rig Mananagement
Utility companies around the world have now identified Oracle CEP as the technology to effectively manage the new world of Smart Meters and the associate smart power grids. In houses, these smart meters are “event” devices and can provide a wealth of consumption data which can be used together with other power event data (such as sub-station utilizations). As load on sub-stations increases, the technology is now available to “influence” individual meters to reduce home consumption levels. Customers can agree to this capability with reduced power cost incentives. The ability to effectively monitor oil pressure levels in real time on, for example, oil rigs, while at the same time monitor weather conditions which will impact the situation and dynamically monitor the various resources nearest to the oil pipe in question, with the correct skills to correct the problems.
Roadways Toll management Systems
Roadway toll companies can use Oracle CEP to effectively manage and charge for car/truck usage, dynamically, for only the amount of road used. A use case can be where exit points on a particular toll road do not have toll charging gates, so toll management could use the “NOT” event features or Oracle CEP to identify that a tracked car has passed one location, but did not pass a subsequent location within a specific time period (the assumption is the car departed the toll road or had a breakdown (which could trigger another action by the toll management company))
Intelligent cable box Management
Several companies supporting cable companies, have use cases where their cable boxes for each household provided event data. This data indicates not only, "BOX ON", "BOX OFF", but also the viewing trends which would be analyzed by Oracle CEP in real time to offer addition services and preempt tampering scenarios.
Algorithmic Trading, Smart Order Routing
Almost unlimited use cases coming from the financial services world. Real Time stock trading is an obvious one, where we are told that milliseconds matter! One trading company said “if I can save 1 millisecond a year it is worth $100M to us!” Smart Order routing uses Oracle CEP to determine the best worldwide financial market to trade from a specific customers order book. It uses a complex collection of “strategies” which not only indicates “SELL/BUY/Price levels/market SLA’s” but is also impacted by the actual real time latencies from the markets.
Emergency Services Real Time Location Proximity Tracking
When a fire emergency happens it is mission critical that many complex event scenarios happen instantly and at the same time. The Oracle Complex Event Processing solution can be used to isolate fire locations and immediately create boundary areas around the incident, based on several complex criteria’s, such as the geography of the area (whether next to a river or on a hillside etc) and the density of the population. In parallel, the solution identifies the fire resources, via GPS (Global Positioning Systems) that are in the vicinity and are best equipped to deal with the particular type of emergency (is the fire causing poisonous gases so HAZMAT resources will be needed, or is the fire in a steep location requiring tall ladders etc). Oracle CEP can invoke the require processes with its tight integration with the Oracle SOA Products, to expedite those resources movements. While Oracle Complex Event Processing is executing these tasks in the background, it can also communicates instantly with a lightweight Monitoring Dashboard, which is constantly updated, driven by the generated resource events showing the actual location of each resources and whether it is transgressing the boundary areas, indicated by the status of, IN, NEAR or IN VOID (very close to the incident), triggering further synthetic events.
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