Volkswagen Group

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‍Client Overview
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Volkswagen Group is one of the world’s most recognisable automotive manufacturers, bringing together prestigious brands including Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Porsche, SEAT, Škoda, and Cupra. Beyond building iconic vehicles, Volkswagen is pioneering connected car technologies that transform the driving experience for millions of customers worldwide.

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The Challenge
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Every new Volkswagen Group vehicle comes equipped with connected services powered by mobile networks. These services support a wide range of customer-centric features—from navigation enhancements to safety insights—while also enabling enterprises to access valuable vehicle telemetry data.

With millions of connected cars on the road, Volkswagen needed a highly scalable, resilient IoT data platform to ingest and process massive volumes of telemetry in real time. The requirement:

• Seamlessly support up to 5 million vehicles transmitting data at once
• Accommodate daily peak traffic surges with zero downtime
• Provide a secure, compliant, and future-ready architecture to underpin Car‑Net services across global markets

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The Solution
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Digitalis.io partnered with Volkswagen Group to architect and implement a robust, cloud-native IoT data platform designed for scale, speed, and resilience. Key technologies included:

• Apache Cassandra for distributed, fault-tolerant data storage
• Apache Kafka for high-performance streaming and real-time data ingestion
• AWS-native infrastructure provisioned with Infrastructure-as-Code for reliability and agility

Our expert team supported Volkswagen across multiple critical dimensions:

• End-to-end data architecture and modelling
• Security-first design, aligned with Volkswagen’s global standards
• AWS cloud architecture and infrastructure automation
• Capacity planning and cost optimisation to future-proof operations
• Disaster recovery strategy and 24/7 incident support
• Developer enablement and hands-on coaching to accelerate adoption

Leveraging our Day 0 / Day 1 / Day 2 delivery framework, we ensured the platform was not only deployed successfully but also fully operationalised for long-term performance.

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The Outcome
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In record time, Digitalis.io delivered a production-ready IoT data platform that now empowers Volkswagen Group with:

• Global scalability to support millions of vehicles across regions
• High performance during peak data loads without service degradation
• Enterprise-grade security and resilience, meeting rigorous compliance needs
• Freedom for Volkswagen’s development teams to focus on building innovative customer-facing applications—confident the data foundation is in expert hands

By combining our deep expertise in data platforms with Volkswagen Group’s vision for connected mobility, we enabled the group to unlock the true value of IoT at scale, setting a solid foundation for the future of smart, connected vehicles.

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