Worlwide HYdrological Large-scale Database

Informazioni relative al progetto

WHYLD

ID dell’accordo di sovvenzione: 190153745

DOI

10.3030/190153745

Progetto chiuso

Data della firma CE 11 Maggio 2023

Data di avvio 1 Giugno 2023

Data di completamento 30 Giugno 2025

Finanziato da

• The European Innovation Council (EIC)

Costo totale

€ 3 672 543,75

Contributo UE

€ 2 499 999,99

Coordinato da

VORTEX.IO
France

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

Periodo di rendicontazione: 2024-06-01 al 2025-06-30

Sintesi del contesto e degli obiettivi generali del progetto

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.

Lavoro eseguito dall’inizio del progetto fino alla fine del periodo coperto dalla relazione e principali risultati finora ottenuti

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

Progressi oltre lo stato dell’arte e potenziale impatto previsto (incluso l’impatto socioeconomico e le implicazioni sociali più ampie del progetto fino ad ora)

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