Cellular Network Data Platform for Cross-Workstream Correlation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Cellular network providers face challenges in making efficient, educated, and data-driven decisions due to data siloing across different workstreams, which are typically stored in isolated data stores, inhibiting the accessibility and integration of data from various departments or verticals within the organization.
Innovation Solution
An integrated data platform that correlates and stores data from multiple workstreams in a centralized repository, such as a data lake, using common data fields to facilitate data accessibility and enable visualization across different verticals, allowing for more informed decision-making.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If data from multiple workstreams are stored in isolated data stores, then data security and organizational structure are maintained, but data accessibility and integration capability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple isolated data stores into a unified data platform that maintains the organizational structure of separate workstreams while enabling cross-workstream data access. The unified platform correlates data from different workstreams (network operations, site construction, software updates, etc.) through common data fields without consolidating the underlying isolated storage structures, thus preserving security while improving accessibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The unified data platform acts as an intermediary layer between isolated data stores and users. It provides data correlation and access capabilities without requiring changes to the underlying isolated storage architecture, enabling data integration while maintaining the original security boundaries of each workstream.
2Productivity
If data from multiple workstreams are integrated in a unified platform, then data accessibility and decision-making quality improve, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The unified data platform segments data correlation operations by workstream type and common data fields. Instead of creating a monolithic integration system, it processes and correlates data from different workstreams (network operations, site construction, software updates, etc.) separately while maintaining a unified access interface, thus reducing overall system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The unified data platform provides universal data access and correlation capabilities across multiple workstreams through a single interface. It handles diverse data types (network performance metrics, site construction status, software update progress, etc.) using common data fields, eliminating the need for multiple specialized access systems.
3Loss of information
If data correlation is performed across multiple workstreams, then insight quality and analytical capability improve, but data processing time and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The unified data platform performs preliminary data correlation and standardization when data is ingested from workstreams. It pre-processes data using common data fields and establishes correlation relationships in advance, so that when analytical queries are executed, the data is already prepared and linked, significantly reducing real-time processing time.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes data parameters by standardizing common data fields across different workstreams (e.g., standardizing site identifier formats, time zones, and measurement units). This parameter normalization enables efficient data correlation without requiring complex real-time transformations during analytical operations.
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AI summary
A method includes collecting data from a plurality of workstreams relating to maintaining, operating, or building a cellular network; storing the collected data in a centralized repository; and correlating the collected data from at least two workstreams of the plurality of workstreams. The plurality of workstreams include selection and/or installation of wireless sites, monitoring performance of the cellular network, monitoring user sessions on the cellular network, implementing software updates on the cellular network, and/or monitoring productivity of one or more employees of a provider of the cellular network. Correlating the collected data from the at least two workstreams of the plurality of workstreams includes correlating the collected data based on a common data field included in the collected data from each of the at least two workstreams. The method also includes presenting a user interface including a visualization of at least a portion of the correlated data.