The Meteorological Department is getting ready to embrace Web of Things (IoT) gadgets to gather weather-related information which can be reported in genuine time, and deal with the telecom regulator to send out weather condition cautions to individuals by means of SMS messages.
The firm, under the Digital Economy and Society Ministry, stated the concern was to embrace digital tech to support huge information for all celebrations to evaluate and utilize.
Chomparee Chompurat, director-general of the Meteorological Department, stated the firm was not simply a weather condition forecaster.
The department’s precursor information has actually been utilized by numerous personal applications to offer weather report services, she stated.
Without information collection from the firm’s database, there would be no precursor information for the personal operators to utilize for their apps, she kept in mind.
The department has a task to check, keep an eye on and report weather for air travel and natural phenomena projections, in addition to concern cautions in case of extreme weather.
The department’s weather forecast will likewise be sent out to the Worldwide Meteorological Department to allow personal organisations worldwide to gain access to and support their weather report services.
Each nation has its own meteorological department to gather information for use.
” Individuals might have a misconception regarding why there requires to be the Meteorological Department as there are lots of personal organisations running such a service on their platforms,” Ms Chomparee stated.
The significance of the department is to collect and keep weather-related information, such as the amount of rains, and make it readily available to all companies, she included.
Ms Chomparee stated weather condition forecasting includes complex procedures, consisting of numerous information sources from ground devices, aerial tracking, radar, satellites, and cloud watchings, in addition to information processing.
According to Ms Chomparee, the Meteorological Department intends to level up its capability by offering weather condition and rain info for more particular functions and locations.
This information might be useful to farmers who need to make farming strategies, anglers who require to browse waterways, and industrialists who might require the information for their organization preparation.
TECH-DRIVEN PUSH
Ms Chomparee stated the firm is now scaling up efforts to generate digital tools, such as IoT gadgets, to assist determine weather, consisting of the volume of rains, which can be reported in genuine time.
The department participates in the federal government’s water information combination job by gathering rains data to support water management.
The firm remains in the procedure of obtaining and setting up IoT devices to gather rain information with a spending plan of 615 million baht, changing initial devices set up in 1,000 districts.
” The real-time report of information might assist in farm preparation. The federal government officers and provincial guvs can likewise collect the information for their regional preparation for the general public interest,” Ms Chomparee stated.
” Making use of innovation is not indicated to drive individuals out of work. We change the function of authorities, changing them to offer upkeep for aging devices.”
The firm presently has 1,200 personnel, consisting of 1,150 state authorities, with the rest under employment agreement.
According to Ms Chomparee, the department is signing up with hands with the Digital Economy Promo Firm for metropolitan preparation in Phuket, which needs data on water information, while dealing with Pattaya for tourism-related functions.
WEATHER CONDITION NOTIFIES
Ms Chomparee stated the department is now dealing with the Workplace of the National Broadcasting and Telecom Commission (NBTC) for a job to offer weather condition alert services by means of SMS messages.
The cooperation is required as the NBTC acts as an intermediary for mobile operators, she stated. Individuals who take a trip to various locations will get weather condition caution messages.
The job is holding conversations about its budget plan, which would be drawn from the NBTC’s fund.
SMS weather condition notifies have actually been utilized in around 20 nations, consisting of South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan.
The alert resembles SMS messages for marketing projects, which are sent out to buyers when they get in shopping centers.
” If this job materialises, it can be reached other notifies, such as criminal offense, missing out on individuals and fire,” stated Ms Chomparee.
