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Meniscus Smarter Travelling Choices using Real Time Weather Data

Annual Futures Conference14th June 2016

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Will it rain…….or won’t it????

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Hyperlocal Rainfall project

Funded under an InnovateUK Smart City competitionCollaborative project

ObjectiveTo encourage city residents to make more

use of sustainable transport options – cycling and walking

How?To give them accurate, journey specific,

personalised rainfall predictions

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Hyperlocal Rainfall - Innovations

Accurate Tracking the actual rainfall that is falling Use Met Office radar data, not imagery, so we process results quicker

– updates every 5 minutes Every update we create 12 x 5 minute stepped predictions for each

1km2

Use local real time wind speed and direction data to predict rainfall path

‘Ground Truthing’ radar data with local weather stations Journey specific

Tie the rainfall predictions to a Journey Personalised

Look to ‘predict’ the Journey they are likely to take Create customised vouchers based on previous preferences

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Hyperlocal Rainfall – mobile app Android mobile app with

personalisation engine Preferred Journey Discount Vouchers for weather

Just launched as a Beta version so going through testing

Originally planned for Peterborough area but now processing data for ½ of England

Project completion March 2017 but currently ahead of schedule

All delivered using the Meniscus Analytics Platform (MAP)

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Built using Meniscus Analytics Platform

Data pushed to MAP

Information pulled using RESTful API

Meniscus Analytics Platform• Apply any calculation• Deploy to millions of Things/Entities• Real Time• Generic• Scalable, flexible and lightning fast

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Next Steps…

Two key things

1. Looking for Smart Cities and Local Councils to partner with Originally envisaged they may buy – but now believe this is unlikely Looking for councils to help deploy this app to local residents

2. Looking for corporates interested in sponsoring Promote health and well being of employees Able to use the app for their workforce

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Focus on Cleantech sector – Water and Electricity Cloud based service turning data into calculated metrics Software is developed and proven

Meniscus Calculation Engine (MCE) – original proven platform Meniscus Analytics Platform (MAP) – completed in 2014 with part funding from

InnovateUK

Delivered via a range of dashboard solutions or via a comprehensive RESTful API

Meniscus – background

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• Mike Everest• Meniscus Systems Ltd

Huntingdon Business CentreBlackstone RoadHuntingdonPE29 6EF

• T +44 1480 433714• E meverest@meniscus.co.uk

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