Comments on: How Weather Data Could Be the Next Location Data

By: WeatherBug Eyes the Smart Grid Buzz

WeatherBug Eyes the Smart Grid Buzz — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:02:02 +0000

[...] Here’s how it works: WeatherBug’s weather tracking stations collect 27 different climate variables around the country, including pressure, temperature, wind speed, wind direction and precipitation. The weather data is then used in various third-party applications and services, as well as the company’s own applications. All those applications have led to WeatherBug data being used by 21.5 million consumers, more than 100 state and local government agencies, 8,000 schools, and over 100 TV broadcast stations. The company has been a pioneer in what I have described as using weather data to provide a platform for next generation services and applications (see my article How Weather Data Could Be the Next Location Data). [...]

By: tecosystems » Data and its Sharp Stick vs Intuition

tecosystems » Data and its Sharp Stick vs Intuition — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:32:21 +0000

[...] data, from which to inform our own decisions, yes, but also those made by applications for us. Example: But as both Steinberg, Friedberg and IBM’s Director of Strategy for its Venture Capital Group [...]

By: Jeff R

Jeff R — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:01:21 +0000

Small scale data collectors are proliferating, and will complete the picture. I live in a hilly area with microclimates. Some of my neighbors up the hill have weather stations that contribute to the grass-roots weather site wunderground.com, which has proven to be the best source of weather info for me. So the revolution is indeed happening in both directions already, and the vision of "rain in 5 minutes" is getting pretty close. I'd say it's "rain in 20 minutes" for my area right now.

By: Earth2Tech Week In Review

Earth2Tech Week In Review — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:37:00 +0000

[...] How Weather Data Could Be the Next Location Data: Location data is commonly used in the mobile and web industries as a way to provide context for services, and as an underlying platform for new applications. In a similar way I think weather data could provide a platform for some very important next generation services and applications, particularly when it comes to energy efficiency. GA_googleFillSlot("earth2tech_ros_post_footer"); [...]

By: mike

mike — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:04:47 +0000

would love to see homes/businesses use the weather to cut costs. For example, "Thunderstorm about to come through" would signal air conditioners overloading the grid on a hot summer day to slow down. As soon as the outside temp dropped, fans could suck in lots of fresh air a little cost.

By: Paul Jardine

Paul Jardine — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:25:12 +0000

When I saw the title of this post I was expecting something much more radical.
For example, when it’s raining it could tell me that at my current location the rain is expected to last X more minutes (or hours), or warn me when there is an impending weather change at my location.
Forecasting on a personal level can be much more immediate; ‘it will rain heavily in 5 minutes (better hail your taxi now!)’ rather than ‘today there is a 60% chance of snow’
Often if you look at the sky you can see the rain coming your way, but satellites and heavy computer iron are probably better at telling where it will go next…

By: Eric Anderson

Eric Anderson — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:58:02 +0000

I just built an iPhone application that can do reporting using the NWS twitter tagging - it's called WX Reporter. I have a big vision for this type of data, and can't wait to complete it!

By: Todd Biske

Todd Biske — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:11:06 +0000

One interesting thing about weather data, however, is getting down to the very small scale micro-climates, data coverage not normally provided by the NWS. It would be great to see a proliferation of small-scale data collectors, whether stationary (mounted on a house) or mobile (part of your mobile device) that could contribute weather data back out to the grid to enable more sophisticated prediction models.

By: Chetan Conikee

Chetan Conikee — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:37:11 +0000

Another great example of Weather Data being put to use to predict flights using Flightcaster (www.flightcaster.com)

http://www.datawrangling.com/how-flightcaster-squeezes-predictions-from-flight-data

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:24:10 +0000

While they're at it, real-time air quality sensors would be awesome.

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