Periodic Reporting for period 1 - WHYLD (Worlwide HYdrological Large-scale Database)
Reporting period: 2023-06-01 to 2024-05-31
To address the worldwide rise in climate-change driven devastating flood events, project WHYLD at vorteX-io aims to demonstrate the benefits of a large-scale real-time hydrometeorological database towards assisting governments in effective flood risk management.
Backed by the EIC Accelerator Programme, project WHYLD involves the development and deployment of an innovative and intelligent river forecasting service. This is made possible thanks to proprietary algorithms and hardware inspired by satellite technology: vorteX-io’s Micro-stations that can measure data such as water surface height and velocity, with ongoing R&D for river flow and rainfall rate parameters.
The project's initial phase involves large-scale deployment of this non-binding turnkey service in two pilot countries, France and Croatia, eventually covering all of Europe and flood-risk areas globally.
Furthermore, to support the acceleration of the WHYLD project deployment and to meet the 30% co-financing of the EIC Accelerator Programme, vorteX-io raised €2.9 million in May 2024, in addition to the initial €2.5 million granted by the European Innovation Council. The complete portfolio of €3.7 million is being used to finance the acceleration of vorteX-io, namely: manufacturing and installation of 1000 new v2.1 micro-stations, strengthening the teams to effectively manage the growing network, and finally to support Research & Development activities.
Backed by the EIC Accelerator Programme, project WHYLD involves the development and deployment of an innovative and intelligent river forecasting service. This is made possible thanks to proprietary algorithms and hardware inspired by satellite technology: vorteX-io’s Micro-stations that can measure data such as water surface height and velocity, with ongoing R&D for river flow and rainfall rate parameters.
The project's initial phase involves large-scale deployment of this non-binding turnkey service in two pilot countries, France and Croatia, eventually covering all of Europe and flood-risk areas globally.
Furthermore, to support the acceleration of the WHYLD project deployment and to meet the 30% co-financing of the EIC Accelerator Programme, vorteX-io raised €2.9 million in May 2024, in addition to the initial €2.5 million granted by the European Innovation Council. The complete portfolio of €3.7 million is being used to finance the acceleration of vorteX-io, namely: manufacturing and installation of 1000 new v2.1 micro-stations, strengthening the teams to effectively manage the growing network, and finally to support Research & Development activities.
Advancements in River Flow feature
Advancements in GNSS-signal-derived Rainfall estimation
Improvements in User interface of Software
Advancements in GNSS-signal-derived Rainfall estimation
Improvements in User interface of Software
Ongoing activities on consolidating a strong commercial strategy post grant.