Varysian | Developing awareness of new meteorological technologies in Africa

Ministers and hydrometeorological service directors from all 54 African nations attended the Hydromet Africa 2019 exhibition in Cairo this week.

Hosted by Varysian in association with the Egyptian Meteorological Authority, Hydromet Africa was the largest international trade show of its kind for the hydromet industry in the region.

The event ran from 18-22 February alongside the annual AMCOMET, RA-1 DG quadrennial and WMO RA-1 RECO meetings, giving 28 exhibitors from around the world the chance to meet directly with 185 key decision-makers in a closed environment.

Tom Copping, Managing Director of Varysian, said: “Public-private partnerships play a central and increasingly important role in building hydromet capacity in the developing world.”

“Events like this give solution providers and met service directors a unique opportunity to meet and learn from each other with the shared goal of implementing cost-effective solutions to protect lives, businesses and communities.”

Read more in the Hydromet AFRICA ExpoGuide as published by Varysian.

MeteoHelix® IoT Pro to be featured on the LoRaWAN Wall of Fame at the Things Conference

The MeteoHelix® IoT Pro weather station will be displayed publicly at The Things Conference in Amsterdam, Holland on January 31 and February 1, 2019. The Things Conference is the largest LoRaWAN conference and will showcase IoT devices from all over the world. It will feature speakers such as Nicolas Sornin, the CTO and Inventor of LoRa. He will share his experiences with LoRa, Semtech and will inform attendees of what developments to expect in the upcoming year.

MeteoHelix® IoT Pro is a professional AWOS weather station designed with IoT wireless technologies and aimed at the precision agricultural sector and professional meteorological deployments in Africa, South America, Asia, USA and Europe. It features an open source communication protocol and can be connected to LoRaWAN via secure OTAA authentication and also to Sigfox networks.

For more information on the MeteoHelix® weather stations, follow this link: https://www.baranidesign.com/meteohelix-pro-weather-station/

More information on the Things Conference can be found here: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/conference/

Hydromet AFRICA will showcase the MeteoHelix® for African meteorological network building

Egyptian Meteorological Authority (EMA) wll be hosting three important meetings in conjunction with Hydromet AFRICA meteorological sensor exhibition in partnership with Varysian. BARANI DESIGN Technologies will be exhibiting its AWOS and sensor product range including the MeteoHelix® weather stations designed for African meteorological network building and will be streaming live weather data from multiple locations in a smart city installation in Cairo.

Hydromet Africa will gather together all major decision-makers in the African hydrometeorological community for one week as the EMA hosts WMO RA-I RECO (technical hydrometeorological conference), RA-I quadrennial meeting (with 50+ NHMS Director-Generals), and AMCOMET (African Ministerial Conference on Meteorology with 40 Ministers).

Hydromet AFRICA meteorological exhibition organized by Varysian in partnership with the Egyptian Meteorological Authority (EMA)

Event Details:

Date: February 19-22, 2019

Location: EMA Headquarters, Cairo, Egypt

More information on African hydrometeorological network building can be found on World Meteorological Organization and World Bank websites: http://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/africa_hydromet_program

Company info:

BARANI DESIGN Technologies s.r.o.
Klincová 35
821 08 Bratislava, SLOVAKIA
www.baranidesign.com