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Introduction

About the system​

The GALAKTIKA satellite monitoring system (hereafter the "System") is designed for monitoring moving objects (vehicle fleets, special and agricultural machinery, mobile staff, etc.) and stationary objects (tower cranes, fixed installations, machine tools, etc.).

Object monitoring includes:

  • observing the location and movement of objects on a map;
  • tracking changes in object parameters — speed, fuel level, operating time, temperature and others;
  • controlling objects (sending commands) and drivers (SMS, calls, assignments);
  • receiving notifications about changes in an object's status;
  • interpreting data received from an object in various reports (tables and charts);
  • obtaining analytical information about fleets.

Monitoring is performed using dedicated devices — trackers — installed on the monitored objects. At a set interval, the devices determine their location and transmit data over the GSM network to the monitoring server. Sensors and additional equipment can be connected to trackers via analog and digital inputs (temperature and pressure sensors, equipment status sensors, fuel-level sensors, alarms, etc.).

GALAKTIKA is built on a high-performance columnar database. A columnar DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) runs SQL queries with complex computations over very large datasets. Unlike transactional (OLTP) queries, which read and write a few rows per query, analytical queries process billions of rows. This database design ensures high-performance operation in real time.

Definitions of the System's key terms (monitored object, geozone, track, event, notification, etc.) are collected in the Glossary.