Vaisala has launched its new Beam Weather Station BWS500, described as a compact weather station for hyperlocal road and environmental insights.
The measurement specialist said the ‘flexible and scalable’ weather station delivers reliable information on air pollutants, solar radiation, flooding, snow depth, visibility and current weather conditions.
It added that the turnkey monitoring station can be deployed ‘virtually anywhere’ and empowers communities to leverage weather, environmental and road state observations to localise intelligence to fit their specific needs.
The firm said the Beam Station’s size and its and affordable price allows customers to deploy denser observation networks.
The station aggregates insights and delivers them directly to the customer’s back-end system, while selected measurements can also be viewed via Vaisala’s cloud services.
Product manager Paras Chopra said: ‘Our customers require more flexibility in the parameters they monitor and how the information is distributed, and we answered with the best-in-class Beam Weather Station.
‘Unlike anything in the industry, our solution advances communities to make them more resilient to the effects of weather and poor air quality by providing accessible, actionable, easy-to-use, and affordable intelligence. Beam has been co-developed with input from some of the leading system integrators to improve the sustainability of our communities.’
Vaisala said that, leveraging ‘gold-standard sensor technology’ that is already used in the harshest environments on Earth — and even on Mars — the Beam Weather Station delivers unprecedented flexibility.
It is available as a stand-alone station or as a network of stations, with easy installation in all locations, even busy urban areas, including existing infrastructure such as street poles, traffic lights, and bridges, the firm said.
It added that the plug-and-play offering is easy to deploy, with increased sensor support and real-time data delivery to gain insights on various measurements, including severe weather, air quality, city heat waves, flooding, traffic management and winter road maintenance.
The product also offers versatile integration and connectivity, as well as best-in-class data security, Vaisala said.
