Real-Time Telemetry for the TU Graz Racing Team

The TU Graz Racing Team designs and builds a new electric race car each year for international competitions.
For telemetry and data analysis, they developed a custom analytics platform in Rust – and rely on a self-hosted, reliable platform provided by RiKuWe.

Challenge​

The racing team faced several key requirements:

• Source code remains hosted on GitHub – migrating away wasn’t an option
• A dedicated Container Registry was needed
• The CI/CD process should trigger automated rollouts based on tags like staging and production
• The application needed a scalable, high-performance time-series database
• External access had to be selectively enabled, secured, and TLS-protected

Solution: Infrastructure & Automation by RiKuWe​

RiKuWe delivered a fully managed hosting infrastructure, including:

• A dedicated Container Registry
• GitHub-integrated CI/CD based on container tags, powered by Harbor
• Hosting on a Kubernetes cluster
• A managed PostgreSQL database with TimescaleDB
• Full control over TLS certificates & access via cert-manager
• Optionally enabled Monitoring & Alerts
• Automated backups for increased resilience

The release process remains entirely in GitHub – but the infrastructure is fully operated and maintained by RiKuWe.

Result​

• Clear separation between development (GitHub) and operations (Kubernetes)
• GDPR-compliant data hosting in European data centers
• Minimal operational overhead for the racing team
• Real-time telemetry powered by Managed PostgreSQL
• Secure access and reliable rollouts through automated deployments and releases