Advanced weather and environmental data enabling confident, data-driven decisions
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Solutions for Utilities and Energy Companies
As severe weather becomes more frequent and extreme, energy and utility companies are relying on Synoptic’s robust and scalable Weather API and Data Viewer platform to prepare and respond to weather and its impact on people and infrastructure.
Be Better Prepared with Access to Data and Decision Tools
Wildfire Risk
Reduce ignition from utility crew operations and get alerts of current fire weather and fuel conditions
Flooding
Uncover regions with the heaviest rain leading to impassable roads or increased risk of debris flows
Storms
Understand where the strongest winds are and the trend of winds
Heat Stress
Get alerts of current temperature and heat index values allowing you to taking extra precautions
Benefit
Reduce ignition from utility crew operations and get alerts of current fire weather and fuel conditions
Key Synoptic Offering
– Weather API
– Push Streaming,
– Dashboards + Notifications
Relevant Observations
Temperature, Relative Humidity, Winds (speed, direction, gust), fuel moisture
Relevant Networks
RAWS, utility networks
Benefit
Uncover regions with the heaviest rain leading to impassable roads or increased risk of debris flows
Key Synoptic Offering
– Precipitation Service
Relevant Observations
Precipitation (last hour, day, week, etc)
Relevant Networks
All
Benefit
Understand where the strongest winds are and the trend of winds
Key Synoptic Offering
– Weather API
– Push Streaming,
– Dashboards + Notifications
Relevant Observations
Winds (speed, direction, gust)
Relevant Networks
RAWS, utility networks, ASOS/AW OS, state and federal networks
Benefit
Get alerts of current temperature and heat index values allowing you to taking extra precautions for hydration equipment
Key Synoptic Offering
– Weather API
– Push Streaming,
– Dashboards + Notifications
Relevant Observations
Temperature, Relative Humidity, Heat Index, Black Globe Temperature, Winds (speed)
Relevant Networks
All
How Synoptic Adds Value
Improving Situational Awareness
- Monitor outages better with real-time weather conditions and stay informed about potential weather impacts’ locations and timing.
- Leverage historical data to identify vulnerable points in the grid that may require reinforcement due to frequent storms.
Infrastructure & Resource Planning
- Protect assets and infrastructure and ensure employee safety with real-time quality controlled weather observations
- Set-up notifications for weather conditions and get better visibility into staffing and resource planning
Data Integration
- Integrate Real-Time in-situ Weather and environmental observations into your own apps and dashboards
- Host your weather networks on the Synoptic platform and get access to a world-class viewer and dashboard tools
The Synoptic Difference
- A low-latency RESTful API ensuring real-time observations
- Quality controlled data eliminating erroneous values
- Access to 25+ years of robust Historical Data
- World-class Data Viewer platform for spatial visualization
- Dashboards & Notifications tools to monitor past & current conditions, including station health
What Our Customers Have to Say
"Without the ease of the Synoptic API, the data query for studying fire weather risk in southern California would have been extraordinarily labor intensive"
Chris Arends at SDG&E