OTT HydroMet Blog Team

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

New OTT HydroMet branding presented for the first time at MTWExpo

Have you noticed the new logo on our website? With the new design, our logo becomes part of a larger whole: Lufft is part of the Meteorology Division of OTT...
Meteorology

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

Have your groundwater measurement data available!

OTT Hydromet has developed an integrated groundwater monitoring and data management solution. The combi-package includes the OTT ecoLog 500, a device for the collection and remote transmission of groundwater data...
Hydrology

Live Webinar: OTT SVR 100 radar sensor – contact-free reliable and maintenance-free measurements

The measurement of the velocity at the water surface is one of the oldest hydrometric measuring methods, time-tested and easy to carry out with the aid of surface floats. While...
Hydrology