Company
Date Published
Author
Rickard Damm & Lars Ericsson
Word count
3403
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Telia Zone is a router used in approximately one million homes in Sweden, connecting to the Internet and hosting causal clusters with Neo4j to graph actions taking place in and through the routers. The company has expanded its use cases beyond basic connection, using the graph to determine new capabilities for the router, such as receiving messages when children arrive home or automatically generating playlists for Sonos speakers. Telia uses Kubernetes to scale Neo4j, hosting causal clusters with Google Cloud Platform and running Node.js apps. The platform is expanding into externalizing intelligence gathered from consumer data as a B2B offering. With its graph database, the Telia Zone allows users to ask questions like "What other devices are running this app?" or "What kind of relation did this device have to this other zone?", enabling business intelligence and unique insights such as predicting Christmas present trends. The underlying technology is found in the APIs on premiumzone.com, positioning it as a technology that will be expanded outside of Telia's footprint soon.