BWI provides a subscription-based service that utilizes virtual stations to deliver hydrological forecasts for river flows, water levels, and water quality, enabling public authorities and businesses to enhance climate resilience. By digitizing river basins and leveraging AI-powered tools, BWI helps clients anticipate water hazards such as floods and droughts, thereby improving disaster management and resource allocation.
Funding
$2.2M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Public authorities and businesses face challenges in anticipating and managing water-related risks like floods and droughts due to the complexity of hydrological systems and the limitations of traditional forecasting methods. Existing approaches often lack the accuracy and granularity needed for effective disaster preparedness and resource allocation. The increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events exacerbate these challenges, demanding more sophisticated predictive tools.
Solution
BWI provides hydrological forecasts for river flows, water levels, and water quality through a subscription-based service utilizing virtual stations. By digitizing river basins and applying AI-powered tools, BWI enables clients to enhance climate resilience and anticipate water hazards. The platform delivers near real-time hydrological estimates and forecasts, supporting improved disaster management and resource allocation. BWI's technology reinforces hydraulic and hydrological models with deep learning to deliver state-of-the-art flood and drought predictions.
Target Audience
BWI serves public authorities such as governments, municipalities, and basin authorities, as well as water-sensitive companies including risk managers, energy producers, water utilities, and the food and beverage industry. The company also targets IFIs & NGOs.
Features
- Hydrological forecasts for river flows, water levels, and water quality
- Virtual stations: digital measurement points placed throughout watersheds
- AI-powered tools for improved forecasts of water levels, river flows, water reservoir volumes, water quality, and hydro-climatic disasters
- Integration of data from space sensors, weather radars, and ground sensors
- High-revisit water level space mission: 30,000 global water level measurement points, updated daily by a constellation of 10 nano-satellites, available via API
- Balloon missions designed for water quality monitoring at the scale of a river basin