OTT HydroMet Blog Team

4 convincing arguments in favor of regular sensor calibration

Calibration of sensitive instruments such as sensors - environmental or industrial is very important. Most of the companies don’t give due importance to instrument calibration. They see calibration as an...
Meteorology
Energy Park

Soiling Research at Green Energy Park with DustIQ

One of the first to work with DustIQ was Green Energy Park to support the field tests of our research team. Since February 2018 the DustIQ is on their site...
Solar Energy

Why is Big Data becoming increasingly important?

The evaluation of large amounts of data plays an increasingly important role in climate monitoring. In many areas of our daily life numerous data on environmental factors have to be...
Meteorology

Seamless data thanks to mobile weather sensors

Here in Germany the days are getting colder and the winter services is already on alert - a good time to think about monitoring the road weather as seamlessly as...
Meteorology

Russia – Korea – Mexico: Success Stories of the NIRS31 road sensor

Launched in 2008, the NIRS31 was Lufft's first non-contact road weather sensor that allows easy installation without road closures and costly construction work. It is therefore particularly suitable for the...
Meteorology

How does fine dust affect solar systems?

A two-year MIT study revealed how air pollution negatively affects the performance of solar panels. The particles in the air prevent part of the incoming the solar irradiance to reach...
Solar Energy
Solar Log

6 Views on the Subject of Soiling, Looking Back at SPI 2018

What better way to connect to our customers and update the Solar Industry than the presenting ourselves at the annual Solar Power International (SPI) exhibition? With a large booth and...
Solar Energy

Modernization of the ITS on the Highway of Querétaro, Mexico

Our Mexican Partner Ingeniería Geofísica y Sistema S.A. de C.V. (IGS) recently won a project of the Communication and Transport Secretary (SCT) as a final client to upgrade and install...
Meteorology

Lufft weather sensors are used where others failed

Visperterminen is a municipality in the district of Visp in the Swiss canton of Valais. Among other things, the highest vineyard in Europe is located here. It is also a...
Meteorology

News from the Road Maintenance Depot in Offenburg, Germany

In winter 2015, the Road Maintenance Depot in Offenburg (TBO) equipped their fleet with the first mobile road sensor MARWIS to improve the winter service. Since then, their number has...
Meteorology