Seamless racing experience
According to Ducati Telemetry Engineer, Gabriele Conti, data has increased in the last year. “Until 2005, we didn’t have that much data, so we’d use CD or DVD to bring back the data to our factory, but after 2006 we started to collect data to do deep analysis on the track.
“We are now strong in terms of data collection, and what we need to improve on is to have things like machine learning that is quicker than a human engineer to do the data analysis on the many riders that we have,” he says.
Conti says some deep analysis tools need 12 hours to analyse one rider’s performance for a race, which is deemed as not quick enough and, therefore not very useful, on the track. He says the partnership with NetApp has enabled the Ducati team to have quicker access to real-time data from any circuit in any part of the world. powered by NetApp technologies. For example, Ducati has been able to make its race bikes perform better and work smarter with each telemetry data analysis and virtual simulation.The mobile data centre is usually driven or flown to each race location and must survive the vibrations and shock of transport to operate across the season’s wide range of environmental conditions.
The NetApp’s FAS8200 storage allows for storage of race data at the onsite mobile data centre securely. Meanwhile, NetApp Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI) provides easy access and effective management of telemetry and race data through Flash technology.
This allows for quicker download and upload of race data and enables faster and more accurate analysis and race simulations in real-time. It also connects better with the rider, allowing for a more intuitive and seamless experience between rider and bike.
In terms of recovery, NetApp’s SnapMirror provides secure data archiving together with a second site housed in a large local cloud service provider. This enables effective backup and disaster recovery and ensures that the Ducati team will never experience any downtime before, during and after a race.
The MotoGP bike for Ducati is the Ducati Desmosedici GP. With more than 60 sensors constantly logging different parameters including brake temperatures and engine behaviour, each bike on the Ducati Team collects more than 8GB of data at each practice session, and more than 20GB of data at each race.
The Ducati Desmosedici GP weighs