Wyssen: New Tools Bring Modernization To Avalanche Work
In cooperation with customers (ski areas, municipalities, railways and roads) Wyssen has pushed ahead with the development of new software tools for practitioners in avalanche service in recent years. Both the display and the processes in the WAC.3 Cockpit have now been optimized for the 22/23 winter season. These new developments allow a simple modernization of the avalanche service.
Cockpit 2.0 innovations
Based on customer input and the experience of recent years, various components have been updated to the latest technical standards. This enables an updated display and new functions for the 2022/23 season as well as future innovations.
- more space for information and intuitive navigation
- tidy communication and fast data entry
- smart map view with new base maps
- Integration of additional external data sources
- optimized operation on mobile devices
- other new functions: save your own location, timeline of all events and much more.
Project Sils Engadin
A current example of the integration of a wide variety of data sources is the Sils project in the Engadin. Weather data, snow depths, laser scans in the snowfall area, cameras and much more flow together in the WAC.3® cockpit. This provides the local avalanche service with an optimal basis for deciding when the six newly installed avalanche towers will be triggered in order to actively control the avalanche danger and thus reduce road closure times to a minimum.
