Meteum for City Services
Any city is an intricately crafted system, more fragile than one might expect. Unfavorable weather conditions can disrupt the flow of an entire megalopolis. Fog, rainfall, snow, severe winds, ice on the roads, excess heat, or frost can dramatically impact transit time, safety, and working conditions for millions of city dwellers and lead to insurmountable costs for businesses and the city government.
Enter Meteum, a perfect solution for absolving your city of many weather-related concerns. With accurate forecasts and hyperlocal nowcasts powered by machine learning and user reports, you’ll always have a heads-up about what’s to come and get a chance to react proactively by taking the necessary precautions and sending out weather alerts. We encourage you to try out an interactive demo over at our website to sneak-peek into Meteum’s extensive featureset: along with basic presets for precipitation and temperature, you can create your own custom rules by combining hundreds of atmospheric parameters!
Now, let’s delve into some facets of any urban setting where high-quality weather forecasting can play a crucial role.
Resident Health & Safety
The global climate is changing, bringing severe temperature spikes and sudden atmospheric shifts. You might think that hurricanes, tornados, and rain-induced floods jeopardize the health and safety of your citizens the most. However, although these are scary, heatwaves are terrifying and much more common: the sun is a silent killer capable of confining the entire city’s population indoors for weeks on end, causing forest fires, and even damaging the power grid. By embracing a top-of-the-line weather forecasting solution, you can ensure that your residents are safe.
Transportation
City residents come from all walks of life: some use their private cars to get around, some bike, while others use public transit. But no matter which way of going places any particular person prefers, the quality of land transportation at large is directly affected by the atmospheric conditions. Rains and winds can degrade the road surface over time and result in pits, and certain weather conditions can present an immediate hazard, such as mists, landslides, and icy roads. Having reliable weather data at hand allows the population to avoid risky outings, while the city gets an opportunity to optimize its transit system by pausing the service or rearranging routes if necessary.
Power Consumption
When a heatwave arrives and every homeowner in the city ramps up their air conditioning units en masse, it inevitably puts a lot of stress on the power grid. A similar scenario unfolds in wintertime when people turn on their heaters and boilers. With precise weather forecasting, the city administration and electricity providers will have enough time to react and prop up the power network to avoid blackouts or any other accidents.
Construction & Roadworks
Weather bears the utmost importance when it comes to construction of any type: let’s dive into a few examples that illustrate this point. First off, the bread and butter of construction, concrete, becomes extremely difficult to excavate or lay under below-zero temperatures. A hot day, on the other hand, can lead to machinery overheating and negatively impacts the construction workers’ well-being. Finally, heavy rain slows down work and reduces visibility on sites. It goes without saying that weather forecasts are instrumental in ensuring that construction is only performed when the conditions are near-perfect.
Other Services & Utilities
City services keep the city in order: they shovel the snow, drain puddles, and provide water, power, and heating, among other things. With Meteum’s precise forecasting, you’ll have enough time to dispatch services when they are needed the most. If the city has centralized heating, the providers will be able to heat people’s homes when it’s the most appropriate and save power.
Our advanced weather forecasting platform will help you increase the efficiency, safety, and availability of city services, maximize people’s safety through specific and timely warnings, and take early action to prevent weather damage. Optimize power generation and consumption with accurate power usage forecasts based on weather and climate conditions, and prepare winter services in advance to keep road networks safe when the conditions are rough.
Once you’ve had an opportunity to check out the demo, head over to meteum.ai/b2b to get your free API key and start using Meteum to make your city safer and more efficient than ever before!