Weather Monitoring Specialist Achieves Best Year in its 27 Year History

Pessl Instruments (Austria) is continuing to expand its international presence with it's largest single delivery to date for a single project. 900 iMETOS automatic weather stations were supplied for one project to China. This intelligent solution provides real time flood risk warning. Other projects also contributed to the 60% growth of Pessl Instruments in the 2010-11 financial year.

The China project in Henan was the starting point in which additional applications of iMetos stations were realised. The requirements of flood warning experts are very simple; all countries have hydrological networks of weather stations and water level monitoring spread out all over the country, but they suffer the same old problem; rains are getting heavier, dispersed and the distribution varies a lot within a few kilometres or miles!

It is impossible to give a 100% accurate forecast about amount and timing of precipitation, so ground measurement is important in providing a truer representation. Until now only very expensive solutions could overcome this pending problem. Now with the launch iMetos ECO “D2”, with rain gauge (and soil moisture/water level), real time communication coupled with high resolution rain monitoring, in near real time, and with very low investments and infrastructure needs, are available. This new technology allows installation of real time rain stations on a 2-3 km grid and gives extremely accurate information about strength and intensity of rainfall at any time in the palm of your hand. This low maintenance solution and low cost, but highly versatile system, is the ideal supplement to existing hydrological networks.