At the heart of Space Machine's server architecture is the idea of combining location data and geographic content from diverse sources so they can effectively support location-smart computations in real time. These location data and geographic content represents real-time traffic information, street maps, travel routes, local points of interest, and moving objects such as vehicles or people in the real world.
The technical challenge facing many IT organizations is how to integrate with this new breed of dynamic geo-spatial information so they can be appropriately indexed and stored within the existing IT infrastructure. For location services to be a part of any enterprise-wide IT solution, all applications must have distributed, real-time access to shared location information through a consistent, unified data store, called the location cache, within the corporate firewall.
Transforming live location data and content into location services.
Space Machine includes a high-performance location cache as part of its location server offering which provides just the needed data store for dynamic geo-spatial information. Space Machine's data-centric architecture is specially engineered for easy integration with the existing IT infrastructure. Furthermore, Space Machine's location server is specifically designed to be administered by non-geographic information specialists in today's IT organizations. This significantly reduces the total cost of ownership in maintaining deployed location-smart applications for the enterprise.
Space Machine's unique data-centric approach to creating a location server platform is the first of its kind in the industry. Unlike traditional GIS-based approaches, Space Machine cleanly separates the low-level storage and management of geo-spatial information from complex manipulation and analysis by higher-level applications. Such a layered design allows location information to be shared among multiple applications. As a result, Space Machine has the competitive advantage of being first to offer end-to-end location interoperability for applications that run on a variety of mobile devices.
Space Machine is working with industry partners to develop a data-centric application framework with a consistent database environment that helps developers assemble a wide range of complex location queries. This allows custom location queries to be easily incorporated into a variety of current application programs using familiar SQL-like query expressions with minimal programming efforts.
