OTT HydroMet Blog Team

What comes after the year of the Innovation Awards?

Before the end of this year, our general manager Klaus Hirzel takes a look at a successful year 2015 and at the many innovations that will come in 2016... (more…)
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Clever ice warning systems of the MeteoGroup

In cases of rain, snow, low sun, storms fog or frozen roads the weather can lead to dangerous traffic situations. At temperatures around 0°C it’s extraordinary critical. In the winter...
Meteorology

New snow plough shall reduce road salt consumption tremendously

A new road clearing vehicle in Norway shall be able to reduce salt consumption by up to 30%. This must now be tested extensively. The real time monitoring is performed...
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Lufft technology on special wind turbine of University in Regensburg

The Electrical and Computer Engineering student at the University of Regensburg Peter Kuchenbecker has dealt in his bachelor thesis with the construction of an economic, vertical small wind turbine, which...
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Groundwater Data Your Way!

It's no secret that pairing telemetry with groundwater sensors saves time and resources from having to manually collect readings in the field. However, groundwater telemetry networks can be limited by...
Hydrology

Professional weather data for radio amateurs

The world is becoming more complicated and partially more opaque. There are many things whose modes of action and origins we don’t or at least insufficiently know. Radio waves are...
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OTT Hydromet and Sutron: the Start of Something Great!

Last week, the OTT Hydromet and Sutron teams came together for the first time to map out how to best serve our combined customers moving forward. It was a very exciting...
Hydrology

New road sensor MARWIS on tour in Germany

With the mobile road weather sensor MARWIS our engineers realized an innovative product which is able to contribute many improvements to the road and air traffic management. A lot of...
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Lufft internal – employees introduce themselves: increased productivity

How the Lufft production efficiency was improved, we presented in January in the "Lufft successfully focuses on lean production" post. In the new part of the series "Lufft internal -...
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Europe’s largest container terminal now safer thanks to Lufft sensor

One of our partners from the Netherlands recently installed a Lufft road weather sensor whose measurement spot was determined by using MARWIS, the mobile road weather sensor. At which special...
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