METEOFACTORYŽ
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All-in-one integrated production system
Public Weather services (PWS) / Early Warning System (EWS)
OVERVIEW AND MAIN FUNCTIONS
People’s lives and economic activities are affected by weather and climate events, worldwide, every day. National Hydrological Meteorological Services (NHMS) have the responsibility to ensure safety of life, protection of property and support to the economy by providing warnings and forecasts in a timely, reliable and comprehensive manner.
METEOFACTORY® is a turnkey meteorological solution allowing NHMS to streamline the production of customized severe weather warnings and forecasts and disseminate these products through dedicated media to the largest audience. METEOFACTORY® is a comprehensive PWS-EWS solution including modules for Digital Forecasting, Warnings, Reports, Product Design, Product Monitoring and Dissemination.
OPTIMIZED FORECASTING ORGANIZATION, RATIONALIZED WORKFLOW
- Direct access to all system functions and one-eye supervision using a web-based dashboard
- Integrated scheduler for automatic meteorological product generation
- Customized SOP (Standard Operation Procedures) to organize forecasting shift for an optimal work organization
- Collaborative work for nationwide weather analysis and production approach.
INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENT FOR DIGITAL FORECASTING AND PRODUCTION
- Forecaster's environment allowing friendly digital forecast and expertise at area and/or points of interest, prefilled with first guess model initialization
- Customized product templates, including graphical identity adapted to the NHMS or the end-users, designed once for good to generate daily products for your customers with comprehensive meteorological contents and powerful visual impact
- Reusable met components to design new products and avoid repetitive and tedious tasks
- Automatic / event-based / manual production of vector and raster meteorological products
IMPROVED RESPONSIVENESS DURING SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS
- Produce, update and disseminate weather warning charts to ensure population and stakeholders (eg., Civil Security) safety with clear information and notices
- Automatic initialization of weather alert charts when extreme weather values (wind speed, high temperature, etc.) are exceeded during the initial digital forecast
- Customizable alert thresholds, phenomena, and color codes
- Automatic pre-fill and dissemination of alerts in CAP (Common Alerting Protocol) format for better warning effectiveness and immediate actions from official authorities and governmental bodies
- Process and display tropical cyclone tracks based on standard CXML files
KEY FEATURES AND STRONG POINTS
CREATE DYNAMIC WEBSITES AND MOBILE APPLICATIONS TO ENHANCE YOUR REPUTATION AND VISIBILITY
- Real-time imagery, city detailed forecasts and weather outlook maps (region, country, worldwide)
- Immediate notification to connected users of severe weather situation using weather awareness maps and information
- Thematic weather contents (eg. marine, agro meteorology, forest fires, tourism, etc.)
REACH THE LARGEST AUDIENCE THROUGH ALL KINDS OF MEDIA
- Feed public / corporate websites and mobile applications for smartphone / tablet users with lively and dynamic meteorological data & products directly fed by METEOFACTORY®’s data base & dissemination tools
- Reach large public using RSS, social network feeds, public wall displays (with VISUMET), and TV broadcast (with TVMET)
- Threshold-based SMS or e-mail to provide user-specific notifications and bulk dissemination through telecom operator
- New incomes by selling improved products and met-related services
SEAMLESS INTEGRATION WITHIN YOUR MET INFORMATION SYSTEM
- Acquire real-time meteorological data from local data sources and data suppliers (ECMWF, NOAA, GFS, UKMO, Météo-France, etc.)
- Acquire and process any type of meteorological data: surface observations, global/mesoscale/ensemble model, satellite/radar imagery, lightning data, cyclone tracks, etc
- Integrate in-house GIS system to use standard maps templates and layers
- Use maps generated by external systems through OGC Web Map Service (WMS)
- METEOFACTORY® Digital Forecast and Warning can be emulated together with SYNERGIE WEB's environment on a unique forecaster's workstation.
SECURED SCALABLE AND OPEN ARCHITECTURE
- Standalone or redundant high availability failover architecture
- PostgreSQL with GIS spatial extensions
- Linux-based and virtualized operational platform
SUPPORT SERVICES AND CAPACITY BUILDING
- Turnkey solution delivery and integration on customer site
- Market survey and sales assistance to identify key economic sectors that could benefit from tailored forecast products
- Site/factory training: operation, maintenance, met products graphic design
- Onsite assistance to the production start with assistance to change management and to user orientation
- Remote support and assistance
