By Peter Gutierrez
The Weather Company (TWC) will leverage parent company IBM’s Watson IoT platform to provide critical weather data to governments and businesses in underserved areas to better prepare for impending disasters.
TWC’s subsidiary Weather Underground has developed the Personal Weather Station (PWS) Network, which consists of over 200,000 weather stations in 195 countries.
Armed with multiple sensors to detect barometric pressure, humidity, temperature, wind speed and direction, and other measurements, TWC hopes to use these weather stations to provide localised forecasts for millions of people around the world.