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We Interrupt your Regularly Scheduled Broadcast…Real Time Lightning AlertsFrom The Weather Network

Fiona HatfieldGIS Developer @ The Weather Network

Agenda

Lightning Project Overview Real-Time Sensors FME Processing Products

Lightning

Lightning is Dangerous Deaths = estimated 9-10 per year Injury = estimated 164 per year Costs to businesses, infrastructure and insurance “Bolts from the Blue”

Frequency lightning flashes occur in Canada about 2.34 million times a

year, including about once every three seconds during the summer months.

We benchmark tested 50,000 strikes a second (aka stormagedon)

Project Goals

Public Alerts through: Alerts on TWN’s Website Alerts on local TV segments Alerts via Text/SMS and Email Alerts via Mobile applications

Also: Dynamic maps Interactive tools (distance calculator)

“To provide information for the public’s safety and wellbeing”

What type of Sensors do you use?

AVL Snow removal equipment Fleet tracking (emergency vehicles, taxis, bus

routing etc…) Vessel tracking (e.g. exact earth)

Smart grid Refrigerator? Smart cars (e.g. tesla) Mobile phones, Twitter, Instagram, social media

Real-Time Sensors

Pelmorex Lightning Detection Network

Project Infrastructure

TCP/IP JSON/JMS

SMSEmailMobileTV

Processing

Read record from data feed

Spatial Filter (polygon contains

point)

POSTGISDB=postgis20FeatureClass:

land_standard_detail_lldd (zones)

Zone active already?

Check if last strike was within

5minsno

Update last strike time

Last_strike_date_time

YES no

Set zone to activeSTATUS=ACTIVE

FMESERVER NOTIFIERTopic: activate_zone

Content: notification_contentyes

POSTGISDB=postgis20FeatureClass:Strike_status

PROCESS_STRIKES.FMW

POSTGISDB=postgis20FeatureClass:

lightningStokes

Publish workspace with Job Submitter

Send UPDATED Message to AMQ

Send ISSUED Message to AMQ

Key Transformers used

TCPIPReciever SQLExecutor PointOnAreaOverlayer Tester JSONTemplater JMSSender

Implementation

Challenges Real-time data feed Volume of data Cross-platform development Short time frame Limited staff resources

Project Six months to develop, test, deploy Team: Developers, System Admin, Tester, Project Manager Developers: Built, tested, documented system. Included a specialist QA/QC tool: Lightning Viewer

Products

Website

Products

Mobile

Next Products

Dynamic Lightning maps on website TV & iTV Lightning Maps and Alerts Lightning Alerts on all phone platforms Push notifications User selectable warnings

Thank You!

Questions?

For more information: Fiona Hatfield - fhatfield@pelmorex.com Pelmorex Media Inc. www.theweathernetwork.com