Real-time Lightning Alerts
Date
Thursday, June 15, 2017
Presenters
Fiona Hatfield
Presenter Company
Pelmorex
City
Toronto
Event
FME World Tour 2014
Session Type
User
Industry
Telecommunications
Presentation Details
The real time lightning alert project from The Weather Network (TWN), provides location specific alerts and details for the safety and well-being of the Canadian public. This presentation aims to review the key technology and infrastructure that enables real time public lightning alerts from TWN. How the lightning data is collected via TWN’s Lightning Detection Network sensors. How real time spatial data is processed via FME Server, what transformers were used, what were tried etc... How the lightning alerts are disseminated across a variety of platforms via Apache ActiveMQ. And finally, how this data is presented to the Canadian public via a variety of web, mobile and TV products.