Worlwide HYdrological Large-scale Database

Projektinformationen

WHYLD

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 190153745

DOI

10.3030/190153745

Projekt abgeschlossen

EK-Unterschriftsdatum 11 Mai 2023

Startdatum 1 Juni 2023

Enddatum 30 Juni 2025

Finanziert unter

• The European Innovation Council (EIC)

Gesamtkosten

€ 3 672 543,75

EU-Beitrag

€ 2 499 999,99

Koordiniert durch

VORTEX.IO
France

Periodic Reporting for period 2 - WHYLD (Worlwide HYdrological Large-scale Database)

Berichtszeitraum: 2024-06-01 bis 2025-06-30

Zusammenfassung vom Kontext und den Gesamtzielen des Projekts

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.

Arbeit, die ab Beginn des Projekts bis zum Ende des durch den Bericht erfassten Berichtszeitraums geleistet wurde, und die wichtigsten bis dahin erzielten Ergebnisse

Advancements in River Flow feature
Advancements in GNSS-signal-derived Rainfall estimation
Improvements in User interface of Software

Fortschritte, die über den aktuellen Stand der Technik hinausgehen und voraussichtliche potenzielle Auswirkungen (einschließlich der bis dato erzielten sozioökonomischen Auswirkungen und weiter gefassten gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen des Projekts)

- Successful outcomes from consolidating a strong commercial strategy.
- Sharting award-winning outreach strategies (collaborations with UN Associated Programme on Flood Management).