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Scalable Spatial Intelligence for Communiations Service Providers

Process billions of network events, optimize 5G deployments, and reduce customer churn with spatial SQL and Python with the industry’s most complete and powerful cloud-native spatial data processing engine.

Telecom Companies Trusting Wherobots and Apache Sedona

Why Communication Service Providers Choose Wherobots for Spatial Data Processing

Network coverage blind spots
IoT data explosion
Infrastructure silos
Site acquisition delays
Regulatory reporting burden
Network coverage blind spots
Industry Challenge

How Telecoms Lose Visibility Into Network Coverage Gaps

Communication service providers struggle to identify coverage gaps and service quality issues when analyzing billions of call detail records (CDRs). Traditional GIS tools and databases can’t process network events at telecom scale, leaving blind spots in coverage analysis and customer experience optimization.

Wherobots Solution

How Wherobots Detects Coverage Gaps and Congestion Across 10B+ Network Events

Analyze 10+ billion network events simultaneously to detect coverage gaps, predict congestion hotspots, and optimize network capacity in real-time. Wherobots processes spatial queries 20x faster than traditional GIS while reducing computational costs by up to 40%—using familiar tools like SQL and Python.

10B+
Events Processed
IoT data explosion
Industry Challenge

Why Legacy Systems Fail to Process Millions of IoT Device Streams

Managing millions of connected devices—including 5G-connected vehicles, smart meters, and industrial sensors—generates continuous location streams and terabytes of location data hourly that legacy systems can’t process, limiting smart city and fleet management capabilities, preventing real-time network optimization and usage-based service offerings.

Wherobots solution

How Wherobots Processes Millions of IoT Streams for Connected Services

Handle data streams from millions of IoT devices efficiently enabling instant insights for connected services.

Millions of IoT
Streams Processed
Infrastructure silos
Industry Challenge

Why Disconnected Telecom Spatial Data Limits Network Performance

Network asset data, customer locations, competitor sites, spectrum allocation, fiber routes, equipment inventory, and terrain models remain disconnected when platforms can’t efficiently integrate diverse spatial datasets at petabyte scale. This requires manual data reconciliation, wastes weeks on data preparation, and delays network planning decisions..

Wherobots solution

How Wherobots Unifies Telecom Spatial Assets on a Single Apache Iceberg Platform

Consolidate all geospatial assets, from network infrastructure, elevation, physical environmental features, to customer data, on a single Apache Iceberg-based platform with 300+ spatial functions supporting both vector and raster analysis without switching tools. Query across all data types using standard SQL with no data movement or format conversion required.

300+
Spatial Functions
Site acquisition delays
Industry Challenge

Why Manual Tower Site Selection Takes Months for Telecoms

Evaluating potential tower sites against zoning, terrain, population, and competitor locations involves manual workflows that stretch site selection to months.

Wherobots solution

How Wherobots Scores Thousands of 5G Tower Sites Against Spatial Criteria in Seconds

Continuously evaluate thousands of candidate locations against multiple spatial criteria simultaneously, ranking sites by coverage potential and ROI in seconds.

99%
Faster Selection
Regulatory reporting burden
Industry Challenge

Why FCC Broadband Map Reporting Takes Weeks to Prepare

Generating FCC broadband maps and coverage reports requires weeks of data preparation when combining network models with census blocks and address points.

Wherobots solution

How Wherobots Automates FCC Coverage Reporting with Demographic Boundary Processing

Generate regulatory coverage reports automatically by processing network data against demographic boundaries in automated Wherobots Jobs.

Automated
Compliance

“It’s not just about mapping—it’s about causation. Apache Sedona helps us identify whether spatial factors are actually driving customer issues. That difference completely changed how fast we could iterate”

David Buchanan
Data Engineer, Manager, Comcast

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Telecom Spatial Analytics Resources and Case Studies

Frequently Asked Questions: Wherobots for Telecom and 5G Networks

How does Wherobots handle the massive scale of telecom data?

Wherobots leverages distributed computing with a highly optimized and feature rich version of Apache Sedona to process petabytes of spatial data across clusters. Its serverless architecture automatically scales compute resources based on workload, ensuring consistent performance for analyzing billions of records. It’s optimized for cloud object storage, eliminating data movement bottlenecks.

Can Wherobots integrate with our existing telecom data infrastructure and cloud platforms?

Yes, Wherobots integrates with major cloud data platforms including AWS, Azure, Google, Snowflake, Databricks, and data lakehouses built on Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake. Our platform reads data directly from your existing storage without requiring data migration, and outputs can be written back to your preferred format for use in downstream applications.

What makes Wherobots better than traditional GIS (Geospatial Information Systems) and existing database technologies for 5G planning?

Traditional GIS tools and database technologies weren’t designed for the computational complexity of 5G planning. Wherobots can process high-resolution spatial data at massive scale. Our platform completes analyses in seconds or minutes that would take hours or days with conventional tools, all while reducing cost and integrating into the modern data stack.

How quickly can we see ROI from implementing Wherobots?

Many telecommunications companies see immediate value through faster network planning cycles and reduced computational costs. By accelerating spatial queries by up to 20x, teams can evaluate more scenarios, identify issues faster, and optimize deployments more effectively. Customers typically report 20-40% reduction in spatial processing costs within the first quarter.

Does Wherobots support both vector and raster data for network analysis?

Yes, Wherobots provides comprehensive support for both vector data (network infrastructure, coverage polygons, customer locations) and raster data (satellite imagery, elevation models, signal strength grids) within the same platform. Our WherobotsAI features enable advanced raster analytics including feature detection in aerial imagery and distributed inference on satellite data.

What are the deployment options?

Managed cloud by Wherobots, or bring-your-own-cloud/VPC.
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