OTT HydroMet Blog Team

How Your Road Weather Stations Remain Precise into Old Age

Road conditions, such as ice or water layers, can be monitored by automatic measurement stations. In the following, we present some of our traffic related products and give you tips...
MeteorologyMeteorology
scintillometer

46-year-old CM5 Pyranometer Wins the Pyranometer Hunt

Earlier this year we opened a competition to find the oldest pyranometer still operational in the field. Now that the competition has closed and we have sorted through all the...
Solar Energy
scintillometer

Update Your Analogue Scintillometer to the Digital MkII

Do you have an older model of our Large Aperture Scintillometer? We now offer the possibility to upgrade your transmitter and receiver with all the added benefits of our new...
Solar Energy

Safe Landings Whatever the Weather: Lufft Sensors on Airports

Pilots, air traffic controllers and airport operators do their best to make air travel safer and more efficient. Sometimes, however, flight security depends on external factors we can hardly influence....
MeteorologyMeteorology

TechTip: Images from your measuring site with an IP cam, captured and transmitted with the IP data logger OTT netDL

In addition to the measured values, images from your measuring site and its surroundings can  provide valuable additional information that will help you operate and maintain the station. You can...
Hydrology

The New Generation of the UMB Config Tool: Discover ConfigTool .NET

Almost unrecognizable, but functionally the same: ConfigTool .NET is a new version replacing the 10 year old UMB Config Tool with which we make a decisive step towards user friendliness....
MeteorologyMeteorology

What became of the radio amateurs’ weather station in Ravensburg?

In November 2015, the chairman of the German Radio Amateurs Club's (DARC) local association in Ravensburg, Germany introduced himself and explained how we helped to realize one of their dreams...
MeteorologyMeteorology

“More Stations. More Data. Better Forecasts.” – the NYS Mesonet

“More Stations. More Data. Better Forecasts.” - that’s the slogan of New York State Mesonet. The weather observation network consists of a total of 125 weather stations all over the...
MeteorologyMeteorology

Experience meets precision: Columbia Weather Systems

Columbia Weather Systems specializes in industrial-grade weather stations for professional weather monitoring. Their weather stations integrate meteorological sensors and monitoring options that serve weather data in a way that is...
MeteorologyMeteorology

Special test drive: the highlight of the last MARWIS Tour

The last two roadshows with mobile road sensor MARWIS were tracked by the browser-based evaluation software ViewMondo. This once created a very special lane, which took place on a strikingly...
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