Weather management tools designed for water utilities Weather, particularly severe weather, can substantially impact your operations. Strong storms and significant rainfall can cause problems by sending excess storm water through your collection systems. Your pumping station operators, who are responsible for sending all water to your treatment plant, need to be informed when such conditions are expected. This allows them to prepare by opening and closing valves appropriately. In addition, your operations and employees are vulnerable to lightning strikes. With MxVision WeatherSentry Water Utility Edition, you can anticipate potential issues due to heavy rainfall, lightning, and local severe weather events. Knowing the accurate timing and specific location of an oncoming storm helps your team to avoid operational upsets, work efficiently and safely, protect your water supply, and provide optimum public service. It also helps you to improve your staffing efficiency.

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Weather, particularly severe weather, can substantially impact your
operations. Strong storms and significant rainfall can cause problems
by sending excess storm water through your collection systems.
Your pumping station operators, who are responsible for sending all water to your
treatment plant, need to be informed when such conditions are expected. This
allows them to prepare by opening and closing valves appropriately. In addition,
your operations and employees are vulnerable to lightning strikes.
With MxVision WeatherSentry Water Utility Edition, you can anticipate potential
issues due to heavy rainfall, lightning, and local severe weather events. Knowing
the accurate timing and specific location of an oncoming storm helps your team
to avoid operational upsets, work efficiently and safely, protect your water
supply, and provide optimum public service. It also helps you to improve your
staffing efficiency.
Forecast the future
MxVision WeatherSentry Water Utility Edition supplies accurate, detailed local
forecasts based on our proprietary forecasting system, which is managed 24/7
by experienced meteorologists. You can anticipate conditions up to 15 days out,
with hourly outlooks for the first three days. Forecasts are updated every hour so
that you always have the best, most current look at what will happen. Forecasted
wind speed, chance of precipitation, and more can be viewed as graphs. Set
thresholds to automatically highlight items of concern.
In 2013, for the seventh consecutive year, Schneider Electric precipitation
forecasts outperformed others in the industry in an independent study by
ForecastWatch.com.
Consult a meteorologist
With MxVision WeatherSentry Online Water Utility Edition, you can access our
team of experienced meteorologists online, from your computer or on your
mobile device, anywhere you go. Ask a question and receive an answer. Plus,
you can see what’s on the mind of your industry peers by viewing other questions
and answers. In addition, our meteorologists post twice-daily forecast briefings
tailored to your region of the country.
A preemptive strike
Lightning is a serious concern. It puts your people and operations at risk.
Lightning Manager®
delivers real-time strike information for the United States,
rather than predictions that can lead to false alarms or delayed data, which often
provides notification after the danger has already passed.
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Storm tracking shows you where severe weather is
headed over the next 30 minutes and what time it will
reach locations in it path.

3. Animate lightning strikes with images taken over the
past hour to better show if lightning is intensifying
or subsiding. See where strikes are the most
concentrated. You can even pair animated lightning
strikes with real-time local radar for a better sense of
where storms are headed.
Lightning Manager also monitors strikes as they
approach, based on custom advisory and warning
zones — up to nationwide coverage is available as
an additional purchase — represented by colored
rings. When strikes occur within these zones,
audio and visual alerts are triggered. An all-clear
notification can also be set up to let you know when
the danger has passed, and includes a countdown
to show you when that notification will likely occur.
Plus, see lightning information on your cell phone or
PDA when you’re on the go.
Display lightning information on detailed, high-
resolution maps or archive the data for your location,
including time, latitude, longitude, amplitude, and
polarity to an Excel or .csv file. This allows you to
document, analyze, and report on lightning activity
that impacts your operations for planning, insurance
claims, post-storm analysis and reporting, and more.
Get the inside track
MxVision WeatherSentry Water Utility Edition’s storm
tracking shows you where severe weather is, where
it is headed over the next 30 minutes, and what time
it will reach locations in its path. You can also click
on a storm corridor to see the estimated times of
arrival for cities and your assets in its path.
In addition, storm attributes can be accessed to
show specific details about individual cells to help
you better anticipate significant weather. Real-
time, map-based local storm reports provide better
visibility into high-impact weather in your area, via
first-hand accounts.
Keep a watchful eye
The system’s Alert Manager®
notifies you of
significant weather changes. Set custom alarms for
critical weather updates, delivered directly to your
PC or an unlimited number of users via cell phone.
Next generation mapping
High-resolution, street-level mapping provides the
ultimate view of operational conditions. Simplified,
user-friendly navigation allows you to point and click
to drill down into the locations you wish to monitor.
Customize your weather views
You can select and display custom combinations of
the weather and map data that is most important
to your operations — including custom layers
featuring your key infrastructure to see how the
weather is affecting you. Full-screen display of maps
and graphics provides unmatched visualization. An
exclusive weather slide show keeps your staff on top
of current conditions while performing other tasks.
In addition, we’ve added a new multi-panel display
option, which shows you all of the information that
you need on a single screen, for faster, better-
informed decision making.
Business-class mobile weather apps
iPhone®
and Android™
users can now get dynamic,
location-based weather and lightning alerts for their
current location. Our technology instantly delivers
roaming weather information and customized
notifications based on the phone’s GPS. This helps
you stay on top of changing conditions as you
travel throughout your operations. Pre-programmed
locations are also supported, while layered,
interactive maps enhance ease of use. MxVision
WeatherSentry Mobile®
is still available for other cell
phones to provide on-the-go weather information.
New! Flood management tools
Improve flood preparation and response with new
integrated tools. Better manage high and fast water
with real-time map layers for ocean water levels, river
stage, and river discharge observations. Determine
the impact on your critical assets with hourly ocean
water levels and wave height forecasts and alerts.
Plus, you can stay on top of developing threats with
ocean tide predictions within our hourly and daily
forecasts — up to 15 days out.
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November 2013
Products mentioned may be covered by one or more of the
following patents: U.S. Patent No. 6,753,784, or 7,602,285.