The need for accurate/real-time weather observations and data storage is found into several application areas. A growing amount of products and vehicles are connected able to supply environmental data. Opportunities can be found in the creation from a platform open for new data services.

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Services enabled by weather augmented
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Dirck Seynaeve
Project Manager/System Engineer
Dirck.seynaeve@verhaert.com
TRACK 2 - SERVITIZATION & NEW BUSINESS MODELS

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Augmented weather maps

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The impact of weather data
What if? Can we augment this data
Platform for data aggregation
Enabling new services and opportunities

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The impact of weather data
Impacting our daily life

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Weather maps today
• Weather maps are based upon forecasts and within
a wide grid of accuracies from a few km
• A mass amount of data is stored
• Rain, Fog, Humidity, Temperature, Wind intensity and
direction
• Visibility, Ice formation
• Air and atmosphere condition (pollution)

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Sensor Stations providing information
• Air and pavement temperature
• Surface dew point
• Rain, snow and ice
• Light levels
• Humidity and barometric pressure
KMI has >200 Weather stations
around in Belgium.
Data is extracted each 10 minutes.
Weather Cloud’s (road) sensors and cameras

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When to buy?

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What if?
Can we augment this data?
Geo info
Multi
sensor
networks
Unique web /
mobile
applications
and GUI’s

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Augmented weather maps
We can have real-
time (up to a few
seconds) and more
accurate (approx.
20 meter) data.
We have the digital
modelling and
interfacing to create
the right GUI’s.

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http://portus.puertos.es/Portus_RT/?locale=es
An example

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Multi sensor networks
A growing amount of products and infrastructures have the
capability of sensing environmental conditions and are able to
transmit their on-board information to the cloud and one another.
• Weather Cloud’s (road) sensors and cameras
• Copernicus
• Vehicle data, collected from on board sensors “Smart Car Sensor Network”
• Homes “Smart Homes”
• …
SMART HOMEVERHICLESSATELLITES ……PERSONNAL STATIONS

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Personal weather station networks

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Satellite information is exploding

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Under leadership of Verhaert
60 EU star-ups to be financed
through Verhaert
50K€ seed money / start-up

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Vehicles become sensor platforms
Starting from 1980 computers were build into
vehicles to improve their performances, safety
and comfort
• ABS, ESP, Tire pressure, ….
Within vehicle fleets telecommunication
structures became operative.
Current vehicles are able to handle multiple of
data and are connected to wireless networks
(IoT).

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A vehicle can function as an advanced real-time sensor node
able to transmit the on-board information to the cloud
• Lights (fog lights)
• Wiper on/off and speed
• Internal and external temperature
• 360° camera viewing and LIDAR
• Gyroscope and Accelerometers
• Humidity and barometric pressure
• Air quality
GPS location is known and on board
analytics are done
• The road conditions
• Driving speed
• Vehicle inertial motion
Vehicles sensors and data processing

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An opportunity for Tier 1 suppliers?
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Homes “Smart Homes”
Smart Homes have infrastructures that are
communicating to each other.
Sensors applications are connected to the home
server and can be controlled remotely.
Data on the weather
conditions
• Wind
• Rain
• Temperature
• Camera
• Air pollution

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Smart air control system
Healthbox 3.0 a smart and
automatic method for clean air
Build in sensors are monitoring
the moisture, CO2 and particles
(bad smell), the ventilation level
and input is tuned towards.
Airfilter turns on when pollution
goes up

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Platform for data aggregation
Sensor nodes and network

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Sensor nodes
Sensor Nodes
• Sensing and dedicated functionality
• Modest processing power
• Little storage
• Short range communicating
• No ID (mostly)
Sensor node network
• Combines a large amount of sensor
nodes
• Enabled for extensive functionalities
• Higher (pre)processing power
• Long range communication

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Sensor Node Network
Services enable reports,
warnings and
dashboards
Data management and
analytics is done in the
Cloud
Sensors nodes act as a Diffuse
Network of Environment Monitoring
Nodes
Wireless Sensor Node Network
managing local node data
Sensor nodes collect weather data
Data
upload
Report
Alarm
Dashboard

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Big data representations: reports, warnings and dashboard

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Augmented reality for improved user experiences

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New services and
opportunities
Smart Energy
Smart City
Smart Mobility
…

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Smart energy
Sustainable energy system
Dependent on weather conditions and forecast to be optimized.
Help with identifying load and potential outages

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What is a smart thermostat without weather data?
Using weather data Pre-cooling and
pre-heating for energy reduction

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Smart city

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Smart weather solutions

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The Role of Weather in Smart Cities

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Smart mobility/ Dangerous road conditions
Accurately and timely driver alerts could save lives.
Heavy rain, snow, strong winds and limited visibility
are challenging for drivers.
Feed-forward algorithms will help
• Warn drivers upfront on situations being able
to adapt the car functions
• Adaptive traffic signal control, speed limits
and messaging signs
• Smart routing reducing the drive times, trip
planning
• The car can adapt automatically upfront on
weather conditions
• Vehicles having intelligence in the long term
that can turn into "sentinel beings" helping to
reducing weather-related incidents and delays

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Sensors are reacting in an objective
way, humans are reacting in an
subjective way based on objective
inputs.
Example:
Driving in rain makes many human drivers nervous.
Sensor network and analytics need to deal with similar
issues
Self-driving cars must rely on analytical data
The monitoring from human behavior while driving will
be necessary. Ex. by reading from the CAN interface.
Self-driving cars!

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Conclusion
• Augmented weather data is becoming
into the reach of multiple services.
• A huge amount service opportunities
supporting many new applications can
be found.
• Environmental Sensor Networks are
increasing in number of presence and
sensor nodes improving the information
accuracy and increasing the amount of
weather data stored.
• Question can lie within managing the
storage and the accessibility of the big
data.

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