NOVIMET

The company Novimet® markets, on the basis of CNRS patents, an innovative tool (X-band radar and dedicated processing algorithm) for real-time high-resolution rainfall.

Thanks to its ability to measure and forecast short-term precipitation, Novimet® is the link between traditional weather forecasting and the territorial hydrological reality that managers (local authorities, administrations, companies, etc.) need to, depending on the case, secure people and property, optimize the management of their networks or improve the operation of wastewater treatment plants and sanitation networks. Novimet® technology finds other fields of application in the airport sector, agriculture, bathing water quality and events….

The Novimet® measurement chain distributes a fine map of rain (or snow or hail) at a time step of 5 minutes, with a range of 65 km, and can generate this same map, at the same time step, for the 2 h to come. It also allows the generation of alerts at the request of users, according to their criteria, on the basis of high-precision rainfall data (in time, duration, nature, intensity), either local or at the scale of basins. slopes.

Novimet® has already deployed its real-time, high-resolution hydrology and rainfall tool in France, Brazil and Asia.

It provides new solutions for different applications:

• Urban hydrology with its stormwater management problems, in normal or crisis situations.
• Rural hydrology for river hydraulics, flood forecasting or groundwater management.
• Agriculture for farm management, advice to farmers.
• Airports to better manage air traffic according to potentially dangerous weather events.