PS Solutions partners SMU for high-speed processing of geofence queries

PS Solutions Corp (PSSOL) - a wholly owned subsidiary of telecommunications and internet company SoftBank Group - has entered into a software license agreement with SMU through the School of Information Systems (SIS). The agreement provides PSSOL worldwide exclusive rights to use a software module developed by SMU, which enables high-speed processing of geofence queries as well as the application of the software module to solutions which need spatial data analysis in real-time. Additionally, a team of researchers at SIS led by Associate Professors Kyriakos Mouratidis and Zheng Baihua worked with PSSOL to research and validate, and develop an algorithm that could process many simultaneous geofence queries on large-volume incoming streams of data at very high speed and efficient way. "Our two SIS faculty members had both been doing academic work and high quality academic publishing in the area of high performance spatial data management and analytics methods for many years, and were delighted to hear about a specific real-world business problem that would benefit from their prior work," said Professor Steven Miller, SMU's Vice Provost (Research) and Dean (SIS).