Uncovering the worlds’ terrain conditions data
Terrain conditions are still unknown in many ways.
Sure, we can have access to latest satellite/drone images of all regions in the globe, but we are not able to extract meaningful insights from that imagery. We are, still, facing the fact that the majority of fatal incidents in outdoors regions are due to falls because of the lack of information around terrain conditions.
How dangerous is to go from point A to point B? What is the risk? What equipment should I bring?
How can we assess the risk of this area? How can we make sure we are not going to end up in a situation like this without proper equipment?
What if we could aggregate all available data to gather terrain condition insights in order to have meaningful and actionable data for people to make smarter decisions and for organizations to reduce risk over terrain information?
Technology serving terrain condition insights
By aggregating data from different sources like: Satellite data, ground stations, weather information, etc; and by using machine learning and AI, in WeGaw we are able to produce a daily delivered data layer with information like: snow cover, snow depth and avalanche risk. Soon we will be monitoring landslides, rock-falls and even slippery areas. In the future, we may be setting up the foundation of a terrain condition alert system. Would you imagine predicting landslides or rock-falls before they even happen?
We are excited to think that, in the future, our technology could prevent accidents from happening or even reducing the impact of catastrophes like floods or avalanches. And it is not only us, the European Space Agency thinks the same and is supporting us financially, through their ARTES20 program.
Disrupting industries with terrain insights
Terrain conditions data has the potential to disrupt many different industries, from Public Sector, Insurance to Energy/Water Management. Making sure all roads and trails are correctly managed/plowed in winter, calculating better risk over snow related insurance products, calculating the risk over catastrophes like: avalanches, landslides or floods; helping into water management and energy calculations in dams or terrain conditions for oil & mining. The opportunities are huge.
How are we getting there?
Today we are focusing in helping the industry of Digital Outdoors Platforms. An industry helping worldwide outdoor enthusiasts in planning activities in outdoors regions, with the leaders being:
Alltrails +9 Million users
Komoot +4 Million users
Wikiloc +4 Million users
Trails.com +3 Million users
MapMyHike +15 Million users (taking all apps from Under Armour into account)
We help Digital Outdoors Platforms into providing new data layers, updated daily, with terrain insights that can help assess the risk on planning and executing any outdoors activity. Their users are using our data to know better the conditions of the terrain they are going to and be better equipped to increase security.
We are establishing the leadership in this sector by having Whympr, FATMAP and ViewRanger as pilot users, together with the interest of the leaders Alltrails and Komoot once our data achieve global coverage. Once we take over the market of Digital Outdoors, we will be in a position to address adjacent markets like: Insurance/re-insurance, energy/water management, public sector or oil/mining industry.
Rising Equity Crowdfunding funds to be able to go global
We are raising funds in order to make our working product in Switzerland available to the whole world and be able to address global players in the industry. With the help of the European Space Agency and the seed round we are raising on Seedrs we aim to expand our product to become global, increase our sales pipeline and marketing for other outdoors related businesses.
In parallel, we are going to work in new products with our data to tackle the insurance, public sector and water/energy management markets, boosted with Satellite technology and data aggregation.
This is just the beginning of the journey towards uncovering the worlds’ terrain condition data for everybody, anytime.
