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Transfemoral Aortic Valve Replacement With the Edwards SAPIEN and Edwards SAPIEN XT Prosthesis Using Exclusively Local Anesthesia and Fluoroscopic GuidanceFeasibility and 30-Day Outcomes
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- Received September 11, 2011
- Revision received December 14, 2011
- Accepted January 5, 2012
- Published online May 1, 2012.
Author Information
- Eric Durand, MD, PhD⁎,
- Bogdan Borz, MD⁎,
- Matthieu Godin, MD⁎,
- Christophe Tron, MD⁎,
- Pierre-Yves Litzler, MD, PhD†,
- Jean-Paul Bessou, MD†,
- Karim Bejar, MD⁎,
- Chiara Fraccaro, MD⁎,
- Carlos Sanchez-Giron, MD⁎,
- Jean-Nicolas Dacher, MD, PhD‡,
- Fabrice Bauer, MD, PhD⁎,
- Alain Cribier, MD⁎ and
- Hélène Eltchaninoff, MD⁎,⁎ (helene.eltchaninoff{at}chu-rouen.fr)
- ↵⁎Reprint requests and correspondence:
Dr. Hélène Eltchaninoff, Department of Cardiology, Charles Nicolle Hospital, University of Rouen, 1 Rue de Germont, 76031 Rouen Cedex, France
Objectives The authors report the feasibility and 30-day outcomes of transfemoral aortic valve replacement (TAVR), using the Edwards SAPIEN (Edwards Lifesciences, Irvine, California) and Edwards SAPIEN XT (Edwards Lifesciences) prosthesis, implanted using exclusively local anesthesia and fluoroscopic guidance.
Background Transfemoral TAVR is often managed with general anesthesia. However, a simplified percutaneous approach using local anesthesia has become more popular because it offers multiple advantages in an elderly and fragile population.
Methods Between May 2006 and January 2011, the authors prospectively evaluated 151 consecutive patients (logistic EuroSCORE: 22.8 ± 11.8%) who underwent TAVR (SAPIEN: n = 78, SAPIEN XT: n = 73) using only local anesthesia and fluoroscopic guidance. The primary endpoint was a combination of all-cause mortality, major stroke, life-threatening bleeding, stage 3 acute kidney injury (AKI), periprocedural myocardial infarction (MI), major vascular complication, and repeat procedure for valve-related dysfunction at 30 days.
Results Transarterial femoral approach was surgical in all SAPIEN procedures and percutaneous in 97.3% of SAPIEN XT, using the ProStar vascular closure device, and was well tolerated in all cases. Conversion to general anesthesia was required in 3.3% (SAPIEN cases) and was related to complications. Vasopressors were required in 5.5%. Procedural success was 95.4%. The combined-safety endpoint was reached in 15.9%, including overall mortality (6.6%), major stroke (2.0%), life-threatening bleeding (7.9%), stage 3 AKI (0.7%), periprocedural MI (1.3%), major vascular complication (7.9%), and repeat procedure for valve-related dysfunction (2.0%) at 30 days. A permanent pacemaker was required in 5.3%.
Conclusions This single-center, prospective registry demonstrated the feasibility and safety of a simplified transfemoral TAVR performed using only local anesthesia and fluoroscopic guidance in high surgical risk patients with severe aortic stenosis.
Dr. Litzler received honorarium from Edwards Lifesciences. Dr. Cribier is a consultant for Edwards Lifesciences. Dr. Eltchaninoff is a proctor for and received lecture fees from Edwards Lifesciences. All other authors have reported that they have no relationships relevant to the contents of this paper to disclose.
- Received September 11, 2011.
- Revision received December 14, 2011.
- Accepted January 5, 2012.
- 2012 American College of Cardiology Foundation


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Canada loses jobs for two consecutive months before Christmas
betsy replied to QuebecOverCanada's topic in Federal PoliticsWe better brace ourselves. That's just the beginning.
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betsy replied to Army Guy's topic in Federal PoliticsWhy am I only a Minister of Lavalin Affairs? I think I'll be good at Trade - after all being a member of a group called "Swap," I've got the experience! Hah! Plus..…did I forget to mention being on good terms with Trump? And, Bush Cheney? I can get us a whole lot better deal than we've got now! I'll work that Trump's slogan will change to, "USA and CANADA FIRST!" I've got the Evangelical connection, you know.
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betsy replied to Army Guy's topic in Federal PoliticsBy the time we get rid of Trudeau, Canada will have been flat on its back! KO'd.
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Big mouth strikes again.
He just can't zip it - even at a delicate time for NAFTA. Businesses must be sweating bullets......
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betsy posted a topic in Health, Science and TechnologyJust got this tv - inherited from my deceased relative. No manual. We're trying to get some channels ( we have the basic cable package since we don't really watch a lot of tv - just mostly news), but we can't. We end up with this smart hub option. What is a smart hub? I'm afraid to click the okay button (agreeing to it) without knowing exactly what could be entailed with it. Does it have an extra cost? Thanks.
Bloody 'ell. Another Liberal party in the making.....posing as conservative!
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Liberalism is not sustainable. Sooner or later, the folly of Liberalism will swing the majority to Conservatives!
Yes indeed and that means combating cancel culture. We need to be open and clear about what we mean when talking to liberals, without shame. Without judgement... because it's judgement that defeats us.
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It's not a party - it's a movement within the Conservative Party that want to get rid of Scheer. They claim they don't have anyone in particular to support yet.
Mind you, I think Scheer isn't quite effective and I do want someone else with more oomph to tackle Trudeau next time....but I don't like it for the reasons that this Victory something (?) are promoting their desire to get rid of him.
They want him to be a LIBERAL!
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betsy replied to Zeitgeist's topic in Travel, Leisure and SportsHow do you vote? It won't let me. I vote NO! "You people," means new immigrants! Are new immigrants all visible minorities? You tell me there are no new white immigrants? Even if he was wrong in making assumptions that people he saw were all new immigrants - can't we give the guy a break for obviously being emotional about Remembrance Day? Looks like a lot of people are more into policing what other people say - lol, our Canadian soldiers had died for the right to express ourselves!
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betsy replied to Argus's topic in Federal PoliticsEnana leaving Canada (and changing its name). Other companies will be talking about this, and it may spur them to leave as well. It will serve as a warn to others from investing here. It surely is not worth any companies while to invest and linger in Canada - what with all regulations (and the lawsuits that usually follow)!
I have never heard of Chong...….
What do you guys think of McKay?
A couple of pundits were saying there's talks going on behind closed door. That even Harper was said to be telling conservatives to "calm down."
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betsy replied to marcus's topic in Federal PoliticsDemonizing any platform that seeks to LESSEN immigration in any way, is the new tactic by globalists who want to knock down borders and sovereignty! Trudeau, and the other socialist-leaning parties are blue-blooded globalists! They have too, all the mainstream Canadian media on their side - some, most likely even in their pocket! Sadly, majority of Canadians have been brainwashed and "programmed" - thanks largely to our media - and had lost the capability to think practically - heck, they don't think for themselves anymore! Common sense, is alien to them! True conservatism is dead in Canada. The only chance of its revival would be for Canada to really hit rock bottom - not unlike Venezuela! "Flooding" rich and once powerful western nations, is a way to weaken them! Just look at European nations!
It's time to have new leader! With all the scandal attached to Trudeau, the Conservative party should be sweeping a majority with no problem - and yet, it was so excruciatingly painful watching Scheer in his campaign! I ended up changing the channel when he's on! All his strategists should be booted out! I'm not surprised he had a hard time. He came out looking so weak! There's no fire in that man's belly!
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betsy replied to WestCanMan's topic in United States PoliticsSo, it's your opinion. ….and? I already told you I wouldn't know anything about it! Heck, that's the first time I even heard someone mention that! What do you want me to say?
Coalition of SOCIALIST parties will be the best thing to happen.....
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78thealltimegreat replied to BananaB's topic in The Stadium WallOur Wr corps is made of an excellent slot in Beasley and and a solid no 2 in Brown but the drop off after that is pretty dramatic...need a big wr kinda bad
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78thealltimegreat posted a topic in The Stadium WallThis was a tough one against the best team in the league...but 3 of our 4 losses went down to the 4th quarter 2 going to the final play...we aren't super bowl caliber yet but man this is the best I've felt about this franchise going forward since the Kelly days
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78thealltimegreat posted a topic in The Stadium WallI know we still need another WR...but watching Jonathan Taylor tonight for the badgers...has me drooling at the prospect of him being in the same backfield with Motor Singletary...just a thought
So if the Bills win mods blocks your IP address and you can never post again?
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It is amazing how poorly coached and undisciplined the Dallas Cowboys are just unreal
How did we lose to the Eagles?
78thealltimegreat posted a topic in The Stadium WallAfter watching Fitz and the Fins torch them today man I can't help but of our three losses we've had wanting that one back the most as there's no way they do that again to us
The reports coming out of Cleveland out of last years draft where they where down to Mayfield and Allen you have to wonder if they are happy now
Oh I think he'd take any job now but the man has serious mental issues and I doubt any team especially one as tightly bonded as the Bills would want him anywhere near their locker room
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78thealltimegreat replied to DJB's topic in The Stadium WallI actually like the Bills chances...Josh is a bigger stronger Lamar Jackson who is a little faster so the Bills practice against something similar to what the Ravens will be running next week
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78thealltimegreat posted a topic in The Stadium WallHad a chance to listen to sports talk radio on Sirius and was amazed the amount of Cowboy fans that are pulling for the Bills tomorrow as they see this as finally the end for Jason Garrett..well we might as well help them 🤷♂


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Customer: a leading provider of cloud-based software solutions
About the customer:
The client is a leading provider of cloud-based software solutions for 200+ customers across pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device manufacturers, Contact Research Organizations (CROs) and regulatory agencies. It's proprietary cognitive technology platform integrates
Machine Learning (ML) capabilities to automate the core functions of the product life-cycle, boosts efficiency, ensures compliance, delivers actionable insights, and lowers total cost of ownership through multi-tenant Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) architecture, thus enabling
organizations to get started on their Digital transformation. Their services and solutions are used by 4 of the top 5, 40 of the top 50 life science companies, and by 8 health authorities. Headquartered in the US, and has regional offices in Europe, India
and Japan.
The business requirement:
Being a part of the highly regulated life sciences industry, recognized the benefits of cloud a long time ago. they were one of the very first life sciences solution vendors to deliver SaaS solutions to its customers. Currently, that momentum continues as the business goes "all-in on
AWS" by moving their entire cloud infrastructure to the AWS platform. As their platform and solutions are powered entirely by the AWS cloud, the business wanted to find ways to reduce costs, strengthen security and increase the availability of the existing AWS environment. Powerup's services were enlisted with the following objectives:
1. Cost optimization of the existing AWS environment
2. Deployment automation of
3. Safety infrastructure on AWS
4. Architecture and deployment of centralized Log Management solution
5. Architecture review and migration of the client's customer environment to AWS including
POC for Database Migration Service (DMS)
6. Evaluation of DevOps strategy
The solution approach:
1. Cost optimization of the existing AWS environment
Here are the three steps followed by Powerup to optimize costs:
● Addressing idle resources by proper server tagging, translating into instant savings
● Right sizing recommendation for instances after a proper data analysis
● Planning Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances (RI) purchasing for resized EC2 instances to capture long-term savings
Removing idle/unused resource clutter would fail to achieve its desired objective in the absence of a proper tagging strategy. Tags created to address wasted resources also help to properly size resources by improving capacity and usage analysis. After right sizing, committing to
reserved instances gets a lot easier. For example, Powerup team was able to draw a comparison price chart for the running EC2 & RDS instances based on the On-Demand Vs RI costs and share a detailed analysis explaining the RI Instances pricing plans.
By following these steps, Powerup estimated 30% reduction in monthly spend of the customer on AWS.
2. Deployment automation Safety infrastructure on AWS
In AWS, the client has leveraged key security features like Cloud Watch and Cloud trail to closely monitor the traffic and actions performed at API level. Critical functions like Identity & Access Management, Encryption, Log management is also managed by using features of AWS.
Capabilities like AWS Guard Duty, which is a ML-based tool, which continuously monitors threats and add industry intelligence to the alerts it generates is used by them for 24/7 monitoring; along with AWS Inspector, which is a vulnerability detection tool. To ensure end to end cyber security, they have deployed an end to end Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solution called Trend Micro Deep Security. All their products are tested for security vulnerabilities using IBM AppScan tool and manual code review, following OWASP Top10 guidelines and NIST standards to ensure Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability of data. As part of deployment automation, Powerup used Cloud formation (CF) and/or Terraform templates to automate infrastructure provision and maintenance. In addition to this, Powerup's team simplified all modules used to perform day to day tasks to render them re-usable for deployments across multiple AWS accounts. Logs generated for all provisioning tasks were stored in a centralized S3 bucket. The business had requested for incorporating security parameters and tagging files, along with tracking of user actions in cloud trail.
3. Architecture and deployment of centralized Log Management solution
Multiple approaches for Log management were shared with the customer. Powerup and the client team agreed on the approach "AWS CW Event Scheduler/SSM Agent". Initially, the scope was generation of Log management system for Safety infrastructure account, later, it was
expanded to other accounts as well. Powerup team built solution architecture for Log management using ELK stack and Cloud Watch. Scripts were written such that it can be used across their client's on AWS cloud. Separate scripts were written for Linux /Windows machines using Shell scripting and Powershell. No hard coding was done on the script. All inputs are through a csv file which would have Instance ID, Log Path, Retention Period, backup folder path & S3 bucket path. Furthermore, Live hands-on workshops were conducted by Powerup team to train the client's Operations team for future implementations.
4. Architecture review and migration of the client's environment to AWS including POC for Database Migration Service (DMS)
The client's pharmacovigilance software and drug safety platform is now powered by the AWS Cloud, and currently more than 85 of their 200+ customers have been migrated, with more to quickly follow. In addition, the wanted Powerup to support the migration of one of its customer
to AWS. Powerup reviewed and validated the designed architecture. Infrastructure was deployed as per the approved architecture. Once the architecture was deployed, Powerup used the AWS Well-Architected Framework to evaluate the deployed architecture and provide guidance to implement designs that scale with customer's application needs over time. Powerup also supported the application team for production Go-live on AWS infrastructure, along with deploying and testing DMS POC.
5. Evaluation of DevOps strategy
Powerup was responsible for evaluating Devops automation processes and technologies to suit the products built by the client's product engineering team.
Powerup equipped the client with efficient and completely on-demand infrastructure provisioning with hours, along with built-in redundancies, all managed by AWS. Eliminating idle and over-allocated capacity, RI management and continuous monitoring enabled them to optimize costs. They successfully realized 30% savings on overlooked AWS assets, resulting in an overall 10 percent optimization in AWS cost. In addition, the client can now schedule and automate application backups, scale up databases in minutes by changing instance type, and have instances automatically moved to a healthy infrastructure in less than 15 minutes in case of a downtime, giving customers improved resiliency and availability. The client continues to provide a globally unified, standardized solution on the AWS infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform to drive compliance and enhance the experiences of all its customers.
Customer: A multinational home appliance manufacturer
The Problem:
There were several legacy issues with the existing system, as detailed below with the information being provided across categories including service schedules/inquiries, spare part status, service location for maintenance, product information, etc.
- No Call Recording facility from Avaya
- No Historical Data and Reports generation. Agents were manually generating reports daily and then aggregating them on excel every week for the weekly report
- Public Holiday Announcement & Operational Hours changes – Ex: During Ramzan, it's closes early, involved doing a manual recording and deploying it on the server
- Scalability issues: A limit of 12 in a queue based on the support from the existing systems – 8 for inbound calls and 4 outbound and concurrent inbound calls
- Average speed of answering calls was 35 seconds
The approach:
The client wanted to do a pilot project using Amazon Connect, moving from their current voice system hosted in their Mumbai region to Amazon services to achieve the following functionalities:
- Ability to take voice calls
- On-call connect, an option to choose a language (English/Bahasa)
- Call routing based on the language proficiency of the agent
- Ability to record calls
- Ability to help supervision of calls
- Ability to transfer/conference calls
- Scalable environment
- The ability to generate records in real-time
Solution flow & design:
The steps:
- Customer calls into the service center number
- The Call is routed to AWS Connect through Twilio or equivalent ISP
- As per the routing profile, AWS Connect directs the call to the agent
- Agent will get a notification in Instaedge CRM of the incoming call, if the mobile of incoming matches with any record in the customer Database, the customer information will be displayed in the Instaedge
- The agent will have to log into the Connect panel separately with credentials.
Customer: One of the India's largest online marketplace
Problem Statement
The customer decided to modernize its applications from running on a virtual machine (VMs) to a container-based deployment. Shifting from VMs to containers allows developers to deliver changes in a fraction of the time in a cost-effective way. And once an app is in a container, it's portable. So the team can move it freely from AWS to Azure to Google Cloud, back to on-premise, optimizing the benefits of a hybrid environment. Customer anticipated that the demand for women fashion products would grow quickly and would spike during sales and other promotional events. As the team scaled, the deployment process became a bottleneck. The team was frequently troubleshooting deployment failures, which caused delays and missed target dates. The customer's Azure-based platform was hosted on the Google Cloud Platform and comprised approximately 25 servers, the majority based in Central-India.
Proposed Solution
Powerup conducted detailed cloud compatibility assessments to chart out-migration of the existing platform to a scalable and highly available Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Cluster predominately hosted in Asia-South Region. GKE is a managed, production-ready environment for deploying containerized applications. The migration was conducted in multiple waves to ensure that customer production is not affected. At the end of the migration application, the customer was expected to bill around US$0.15 million annually.
The figure below illustrates the migration roadmap and the steps are explained further:
- Separate Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) created for Production / Stage Environment
- HA K8s Private cluster is provisioned through GKE
- MySQL VM Provisioned and installed through Terraform modules
- Kafka VM Provisioned and installed through Terraform modules
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– Elasticsearch
– Redis
– MongoDB
– Neo4j
Stateless Application Microservices are deployed in each pool according to the priority of the microservices Ingress Load balancer is deployed in the K8s for the routing the traffic to the microservices.
Going through the modernization process helped the team increase its velocity and optimize costs. Deployments were seamless and automated. This enables the team to deploy more frequently to lower environments and reduces the amount of time it takes to roll out a new version to production. Costs came down by 40% as the customer moved to a container platform. Moreover, now that the application is running in a container, it is portable between on-premise and public cloud environments.
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Customer: A leading food and agri-business company in the world
Problem Statement
One of our client is a leading food and agri-business company in the world was in the process of building an E-Commerce application for their products to ensure global access & availability. They were in need of a solution which gives them complete visibility into their Micro-services & PAAS architecture and track all the application transaction rather than a sampling of them. They also wanted visibility in User Analytics so they can analyse the conversion trends & user behaviour in the context of User Session.
With above complexity they needed a solution that gives them Automated Problem Detection & Root Cause analytics so they can focus on the findings and make the end-user experience smoother rather than investing time in finding the root cause of those problems.
Proposed Solution
After thorough evaluation Powerup recommended the use of an AI-based solution which can automatically analyse all the dependency at micro-services level and can also trace the Root Cause at code-level depth. For this Powerup leverage the capabilities & offerings of Dynatrace APM tool.
The approach
Implementation stage: Powerup implemented Dynatrace by deploying a one agent on the Kubernetes host which initiated monitoring of all the Micro-services. Within a few minutes Dynatrace could automatically discover the Application Topology map with dependencies.
Powerup also integrated Azure PAAS Service with Dynatrace to gain complete visibility in application.
Configuration stage
- Management zone: Powerup configured different management zones so different teams can have the visibility of relevant data.
- User Tagging: Powerup configured user session tagging, Key User actions and set up the conversion goals to track the revenue over user experience.
- Dashboard: Powerup created the all in one dashboard so in single view they can track the User Experience, Application Transactions status, Infrastructure health, API Calls and Problem detection.
Dynatrace applied Dynamic thresholding on all the detected anomalies, Powerup helped customer to understand and analyse the automated detected problems and trace the Root Cause.
Powerup ensures High availability & quick content delivery of application at a global level by managing the PAAS services in HA mode & CDN to ensure quick response.
Cloud platform
Technologies used
Dynatrace One Agent, Dynatrace DEM, Kubernetes, AZURE PAAS Services, CDN
A Premier Consulting Partner of AWS, Powerup bolsters LTI's cloud consulting and digital transformation capabilities
Mumbai – October 17, 2019 – Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd. (NSE: LTI, BSE: 540005), a global technology consulting and digital solutions company is acquiring Powerupcloud Technologies Pvt. Ltd., a fast-growing cloud consulting company headquartered in Bengaluru, and helping clients across India, Singapore, UAE and USA. With more than 180 employees, Powerup brings a strong team of cloud consulting, artificial intelligence and data analytics professionals to LTI.
Founded in 2015, Powerup is a born-in-the-cloud, Premier Consulting Partner of AWS. It is the only AWS certified partner in APAC to have both Data & Analytics Competency and Machine Learning Competency, and one of the few certified partners of AWS with competencies across Migration, DevOps, Financial Services, Well-Architected, and Security & Compliance. With expertise across cloud, big data, artificial intelligence, and product engineering, Powerup is also a Gold Partner of Microsoft Azure and a Cloud Consulting Partner of Google Cloud Platform.
Powerup has executed over 150 projects in cloud transformation. Powerup would add two AI-based platforms to LTI's powerful suite of offerings. CloudEnsure.io, an autonomous Cloud Governance Platform that continuously monitors an enterprise's cloud services, detects security and compliance violations in real-time and recommends or executes appropriate fixes. The other platform is Botzer.io, an Enterprise AI Platform that helps organizations adopt AI faster across Natural Language Processing, Image Recognition, Deep Learning use-cases and saves time spent in trial-and-error experimentation.
Sanjay Jalona, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director, LTI, said: "We see a huge market opportunity for cloud consulting across all sectors and regions. Our clients are adopting the cloud to digitize their core operations and becoming data-driven organizations. Powerup strengthens our ability to partner with them in their cloud transformation journey. I welcome the customers, employees, and partners of Powerup to the fast-growing LTI family."
Siva S, Founder & CEO, Powerup, said: "With its global customer base and agility, LTI makes the perfect home for the next phase of growth of Powerup. Our expertise across major public cloud platforms offers us an enormous opportunity to grow, learn, iterate and build well-engineered technology solutions for enterprises. We are excited about the potential for rapid growth and expansion with LTI."
Powerup is the sixth acquisition by LTI since the company got listed in 2016 and fourth in this calendar year. Earlier in 2019, LTI acquired Ruletronics, a boutique Pega Consulting company, N+P (NEILSEN+PARTNER), a Temenos Wealthsuite specialist, and Lymbyc, an advanced analytics company.
About LTI:
LTI (NSE: LTI) is a global technology consulting and digital solutions Company helping more than 360 clients succeed in a converging world. With operations in 30 countries, we go the extra mile for our clients and accelerate their digital transformation with LTI's Mosaic platform enabling their mobile, social, analytics, IoT and cloud journeys. Founded in 1997 as a subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro Limited, our unique heritage gives us unrivaled real-world expertise to solve the most complex challenges of enterprises across all industries. Each day, our team of more than 30,000 LTItes enables our clients to improve the effectiveness of their business and technology operations and deliver value to their customers, employees, and shareholders. Find more at http://www.Lntinfotech.com or follow us at @LTI_Global
About Powerupcloud Technologies Pvt. Ltd.:
Powerup is a "born-in-the-cloud" company focused on helping businesses move to the cloud. The dynamic team at Powerup strives for customer satisfaction and delivers unmatched cloud consulting services to businesses with undivided attention and support. Our consulting team helps implement, migrate and optimize cloud applications for global corporations. We also help build Big Data analytics platforms to enable enterprises to extract more value from their environment. A Premier Consulting Partner with AWS, a Gold Partner with Microsoft Azure and a Cloud Consulting Partner of Google Cloud Platform, Powerup's certified team is here to help customers achieve more on the cloud.
More information at https://www.powerupcloud.com
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Written by Jeremiah Peter, Solution specialist-Advanced Services Group, Contributor: Ravi Bharati, Tech Lead and Ajay Muralidhar, Sr. Manager-Project Management at Powerupcloud Technologies
Connected car landscape
Imagine driving your car on a busy dirt road in the monsoon, dodging unscrupulous bikers, jaywalking pedestrians and menacing potholes. Suddenly, a fellow driver makes wild gestures to inform you that the rear door is unlocked, averting an imminent disaster.
In a connected car system, these events are tracked in near real-time and pushed to the driver's cell phone within seconds. Although the business relevance of real-time car notifications is apparent, the conception of the underlying technology and infrastructure hardly is. The blog attempts to demystify the inner workings of handling data at scale for an Indian automobile behemoth and equips you with a baseline understanding of storing and processing vast troves of data for IoT enabled vehicles.
The paradigm of shared, electric and connected mobility, which seemed a distant reality a few years ago, is made possible through IoT sensors. Laced with tiny data transmitting devices, vehicles can send valuable information such as Battery Percentage, Distance to Empty (DTE), AC On/Off, Door Locked/Unlocked, etc. to the OEM. The service providers use this information to send near real-time alerts to consumers, weaving an intelligent and connected car experience. Timely analysis and availability of data, thus, becomes the most critical success component in the connected car ecosystem.
Before reaching the OEM's notification system, data is churned through various phases such as data collection, data transformation, data labeling, and data aggregation. With the goal of making data consumable, manufacturers often struggle to set up a robust data pipeline that can process, orchestrate and analyze information at scale.
The data conundrum
According to Industry Consortium 5GAA, connected vehicles ecosystem can generate up to 100 terabytes of data each day. The interplay of certain key factors in the data transmission process will help you foster a deeper understanding of the mechanics behind IoT-enabled cars. As IoT sensors send data to a TCP/IP server, parsers embedded within the servers push all the time series data to a database. The parsing activity converts machine data (hexadecimal) into a human-readable format (Json) and subsequently triggers a call to a notification service. The service enables OEM's to send key notifications over the app or through SMS to the end-consumer.
Given the scale and frequency of data exchange, the OEM's earlier set up was constrained by the slow TCP/IP data transfer rate (Sensor data size: TCP/IP- 360 bytes; MQTT- 440 bytes). The slow transfer rate has far-reaching implications over the user experience, delaying notifications by 6-7 minutes. As part of a solution-driven approach, Powerup experts replaced the existing TCP/IP servers with MQTT servers to enhance the data transfer rate. The change affected a significant drop in notification send-time, which is presently calibrated at around 32-40 seconds.
Furthermore, the OEM's infrastructure presented another unique challenge in that only 8 out of 21 services were containerized. The rest of the services ran on plain Azure VM's. To optimize costs, automate scalability and reduce operational overhead, all services are deployed on Docker Containers. Containers provide a comprehensive runtime environment that includes dependencies, libraries, framework and configuration files for applications to run. However, containers require extensive orchestration activities to aid scalability and optimal resource management. AWS Fargate is leveraged to rid the OEM's infrastructure management team of routine container maintenance chores such as provisioning, patching, cluster and capacity management
Moreover, MQTT and TCP IP brokers were also containerized and deployed on Fargate to ensure that all IoT sensor data is sent to the AWS environment. Once inside the AWS environment, sensor data is pushed to Kinesis Stream and Lambda to identify critical data and to call the AWS notification service-SNS. However, the AWS solution could not be readily implemented since the first generation of electric vehicles operated on 2G sim cards, which did not allow change of IP whitelisting configuration. To overcome the IP whitelisting impediment, we set up an MQTT bridge and configured TCP port forwarding to proxy the request from Azure to AWS. Once the first generation vehicles are called back, the new firmware will be updated over-the-air, enabling whitelisting of new AWS IP addresses. The back-handed approach will help the OEM to fully cut-over to the AWS environment without downtime or loss of sensor data.
On the Database front, the OEM's new infrastructure hinges on the dynamic capabilities of Cassandra DB and PostgreSQL. Cassandra is used for storing Time Series data from IoT sensors. PostgreSQL database contains customer profile/vehicle data and is mostly used by the Payment Microservice. Transactional data is stored in PostgreSQL, which is frequently called upon by various services. While PostgreSQL holds a modest volume of 150 MB Total, the database size of Cassandra is close to 120 GB.
Reaping the benefits
While consumers will deeply benefit from the IoT led service notifications, fleet management operators can also adopt innovative measures to reduce operational inefficiencies and enhance cost savings. Most fleet management services today spend a significant proportion on administrative activities such as maintaining oversight on route optimization, tracking driver and vehicle safety, monitoring fuel utilization, etc. A modern fleet management system empowers operators to automate most of these tasks.
Additionally, preventive maintenance can help operators augment vehicle lifecycle by enabling fleet providers to pro-actively service vehicles based on vehicular telemetry data such as battery consumption, coolant temperature, tire pressure, engine performance and idling status (vehicle kept idle). For instance, if a truck were to break-down due to engine failure, the fleet operator could raise a ticket and notify the nearest service station before the event occurred, cutting down idle time.
With 7000 cars in its current fleet, the OEM's infrastructure is well-poised to meet a surge of more than 50,000 cars in the near future. Although the connected car and autonomous driving segment still goes through its nascent stages of adoption, it will continue to heavily draw upon the OEM's data ingestion capabilities to deliver a seamless experience, especially when the connected car domain transcends from a single-vehicle application to a more inclusive car-to-car communication mode. Buzzwords such as two-way data/telematic exchanges, proximity-based communications and real-time feedback are likely to become part of common parlance in mobility and fleet management solutions.
As the concept of the Intelligent Transport System gathers steam, technology partners will need to look at innovative avenues to handle high volume/velocity of data and build solutions that are future-ready. To know more about how you can transform your organization's data ingestion capability, you can consult our solution experts here.


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Fans at Fenway Park wait for the start of a baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and the Toronto Blue Jays in Boston on Tuesday. Empty seats have become a problem for Major League Baseball, as the 2018 season saw a 4% drop in attendance across the league's 30 franchises. AP
A family in seats at Fenway Park wait for the start of a baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and the Toronto Blue Jays in Boston, Tuesday, July 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer) Michael Dwyer
A fan seeking autographs holds a ball and a pen before a baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and the Toronto Blue Jays in Boston, Monday, July 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer) Michael Dwyer
Fans call for a baseball during a baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and the Los Angeles Dodgers at Fenway Park, Friday, July 12, 2019, in Boston. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola) Elise Amendola
Young fans watch the Texas Rangers bullpen catchers warm up before a baseball game between the Texas Rangers and the Houston Astros Thursday, July 11, 2019, in Arlington, Texas. Texas won 5-0. (AP Photo/Jeffrey McWhorter) Jeffrey McWhorter
New York Yankees right fielder Aaron Judge signs autographs after batting practice in London, Friday, June 28, 2019. Major League Baseball will make its European debut with the New York Yankees versus Boston Red Sox game at London Stadium this weekend. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland) Tim Ireland
There's been a lot of talk in national and local circles (and by local, I mean Boston, in this case) about Major League Baseball dying a slow and painful death. Television and sports radio pundits, along with many fans, bemoan the slow pace, the diminishing audiences, the ever-older-skewing demographic and the all-or-nothing nature of today's games. Games are longer than ever but there seems to be less action than ever, too. People are abandoning the game for "Fortnite" or Instagram or whatever their distraction of the moment might be.
Some of the proposals out there to "save" or "fix" the game include putting a runner on second base to start every inning once a game goes into extras, instituting a pitch clock that would penalize pitchers who take too long to throw a pitch, forcing relief pitchers to face a minimum of three batters, even shortening the games to seven innings. In the Atlantic League, a minor league affiliate of MLB, they're actually experimenting with letting a batter steal first base if the catcher can't handle a pitch at any point in the count.
But I don't care how far attendance falls or how low ratings drop. Those kinds of proposals are ridiculous. They would bastardize the game we've known for our entire lives, turning it into a circus sideshow.
I'm what many would consider a "baseball hardo." I love the game the way it is and the way it has been played for more than a century. I have no problem sitting through a four-hour, nine-inning game … and I'm a millennial. However, I realize that I'm in the minority of my age group, and if things keep up the way they are, there may be too small of an audience in the not-so-distant future to support professional baseball. I don't think anybody wants that.
With that in mind, I've come up with a short list of changes to improve the product without altering the game at its core. Here they are:
For some reason the replay-review process is always off the table when talking about ways to speed up the game. Yet this initiative, introduced in 2008, is the most obvious change to the game over the past decade or so.
Last year, for instance, there were 1,409 challenged calls, according to @MLBReplays, the official MLB replay Twitter account. Of those 1,409 challenges, 585 calls, or 41.5%, were overturned. Conversely, that means that 58.5% of the time (824 calls) the calls ended up the same way they were called on the field – except we all sat through about two minutes (the maximum allotment of time for a review, though TV broadcasts have many times logged reviews that went beyond that limit) of watching an umpire stand around with headphones on.
It's hard to find data on how many times a manager considers a challenge, holding up his hand on the top step of the dugout while he looks over his shoulder at his "video guy" to see whether they want to challenge. Many times, about 20 seconds pass as the manager hold up his hand and look over his shoulder only to ultimately decide not to challenge. This often happens multiple times per game, on each side, and each time we lose 20 seconds of our lives.
In a 162-game season, we simply do not need every single call in every single game to be 100% accurate. There are just too many plays – did the tip of the runner's spike come a millimeter off the bag for a hundredth of a second, in the third inning, in game nine of the season, against the White Sox? Who cares? Let's move on.
Instead of managers being allowed to deploy players anywhere in the field, teams can only put two infielders on either side of second base, and have three outfielders. Pretty simple. This would lead to more base hits through the infield and fewer can-of-corn grounders hit directly at infielders who don't even need to move their feet to field the ball. This would not necessarily make the game faster, but it would certainly lead to more action and excitement. (By the way, more offense equals longer games, so you can't really have both more offense and shorter games.)
The batter should be forced to stay in the batter's box at all times and the pitcher should be allowed to throw a pitch whether the batter appears ready or not.
While pitchers have taken a lot of heat over the last few years – Boston's David Price chief among them – for dawdling on the mound before they deliver a pitch, the batters are just as guilty when it comes to slowing down the game. Next time Xander Bogaerts or J.D. Martinez step into the box, watch all the histrionics they practice before even raising the bat – deep breaths, closing the eyes, tugging on the jersey, fiddling with the batting gloves, reaching the bat across the plate three or four times, adjusting equipment inside the pants, staring at the third-base coach with nobody on base. All the while, the pitcher stands there, waiting. The fans sit there, waiting. Everybody waits. If you want a pitch clock, there should also be a batter's clock making sure the hitter is constantly ready to go.
Baseball games have, at an absolute bare minimum, 16 commercial breaks, one after each half-inning (if the home team is winning after the top of the ninth, obviously the game is over, thus no commercial break). When you add in multiple pitching changes per side, we're well over 20 commercial breaks per game that last two or three minutes. Forty minutes of commercial time? Seriously?
Cut the commercial breaks down by at least 30 seconds so we're back on the field in a minute and a half, two minutes tops. Networks can simply charge more money for the commercial spots – if Coca Cola doesn't want to pay an extra 15-20% per spot, surely Pepsi or FanDuel or Coors or Nike will jump at that opportunity. For the most part, games are broadcast on local networks anyway, which are chock-full of house ads they can run in lieu of paid advertisements (how many spots for "Dining Playbook" have you sat through this year?). The games are long enough as it is – we don't need to fill up the broadcast with 40 minutes of ads.
And that is how you "save" the game of baseball without completely ruining it for the millions of hardcore fans that still exist, like yours truly.
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