OTT HydroMet Blog Team

How a Lufft sensor helps to improve a solar car

After a successful collaboration between Lufft and the Punch Powertrain Solar Team in the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge of 2013 and 2017 (6th and 3rd place), both parties decided to...
Meteorology

Smart sustainability: Saving energy and protecting the environment

In modern times, sustainability is a trend-setting keyword that is becoming increasingly important in society. In the economy, for example, this is an important criterion for the future development of...
Meteorology
Dust IQ

The DustIQ arrives at the Green Energy Park

One month ago, on valentine’s day, I got up at 4 in the morning. Not to surprise my wife with a breakfast but to catch a flight to Marrakesh in...
Solar Energy

World Water Day 22 March, 2018

World Water Day,  on  22  March  every  year,  is  about focusing   attention   on   the   importance   of   water. This  year’s  theme,  ‘Nature  for  Water’,  explores  nature-based solutions (NBS) to the water...
Hydrology

The new Lufft cloud height sensor is market-ready!

Since 2011, the CHM 15k cloud height sensor has been part of the Lufft portfolio - initially as Jenoptik retail product. Since 2014 it has been an integral part of...
Meteorology
DustIQ Installation

Successful DustIQ Test Installation in Southern Spain

I’ve just returned from Spain where I installed a new test setup for DustIQ at Plataforma Solar de Almeria (PSA). This solar research site is located in the Tabernas Desert,...
Solar Energy

How Artificial Intelligence is Driving Mobile App Personalization

This week's blog post deals with artificial intelligence and which role (weather) data plays in its further development...Apple’s launch of Siri in October 2011 is considered the beginning of using...
Uncategorized

What does Vienna’s water supply have to do with the snow depth in the Alps?

The water supply of the city of Vienna stems from high-source water pipelines of the Lower Austrian-Styrian Alps. Here, snow depth measurements play a major role. In the following, we...
HydrologyMeteorology

How a Lufft weather sensor got on a 50 m high tower in Braunschweig, Germany

The amateur radio interest group of the German national test authority in Braunschweig runs an own amateur radio as well as a relay station (DB0PTB). Since July 2017 they are...
Meteorology

Inauguration of an innovative foldable solar roof in Switzerland

Since September 7, 2017, an innovative solar roof of the public utility "IBC Energie Wasser Chur" has supplied the municipal sewage treatment plant with renewable energy. It's monitored by a Lufft...
Meteorology