ClimaCell claims its new service, which taps into millions of wireless devices, is 60 percent more accurate than traditional forecasting methods, reports Douglas Heaven.
The current situation: Every day, thousands of scientists around the world feed observations into complex mathematical simulations running on the latest supercomputers to tell us our fortunes. But Boston-based startup ClimaCell thinks it can do better.
How? It has developed tech to let it tap into millions of signals from cell phones and other wireless devices. It uses the quality of these signals as a proxy for local weather conditions.
The logic: By using information from millions of devices, ClimaCell claims it has a far more fine-grained view than other forecasters. It’s a good idea in principle, but needs more rigorous comparisons with other forecasters, says weather scientist Ken Mylne.
Big business: There’s a lot of money to be made by more finely-tuned forecasts. Airlines, for example, rely heavily on accurate weather predictions. Read the full story here.
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