Topics #3: Weather Services

The most accurate, global weather information tools

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• Leading Business-to-Business weather provider

• Weather observations and forecasting at over 30,000 locations worldwide

• Unique and proprietary weather decision support tools to improve efficiency and reduce risk

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SE Weather Service is “best in class”

Energy Aviation Transportation

and Cities

• Forecasting for

electric/gas utilities

• Crew management for

Transmission and

Distribution utilities

• Renewables forecasting

and lightning safety for

wind farms

• Forecasting for

commercial airlines and

corporate flight

departments

• Decision Support for

specialized flight

operations (e.g.

helicopters)

• Forecasting and

alerting services for

state and local

government (e.g.

winter weather)

• Weather for Intelligent

Transportation

Systems

Agriculture

• Agriculture-specific

forecasting and

decision support tools

• Largest agriculture

weather station

network in North

America

• Global capabilities

• Premium Weather Data, Forecasts, and Decision Support for businesses

• >13,000 organizations plus support for other Schneider Electric business units including Agriculture

• Independently rated most accurate weather forecasts for 9 consecutive years

• Patented location-based geospatial alerting and expert advisory services

• Online and Wireless delivery portals plus robust Web Services to support analytics

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Weather

Roads

Water

Air Quality

Assimilate

Quality Check

Archive

Deliver

Support

Forecasting

Visualization

Alerting

Customization

Integration

Consultation

Agriculture

Energy

Aviation

DOT

Facilities

Recreation

Water

Observation

Networks

Data Fusion

Value Added

Services

Decision Support

Tools

Enabling differentiated solutions

to support better decision-making

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Weather Sentry Online

Industry Leading SaaS Weather Decision Support

Professional Weather Decision Support Distinctive Features and Content

Advanced Proprietary Alerting Tools

Reliable High Availability Service Internet and Wireless

Convenient access from Work, Home, or on the Road

User Configurable Features User Specific Controls

Custom Alerting for specific business rules

Access to a Human Meteorologist Customized consultations

24 hours a day, 365 days a year

Interactive Weather and

Map Layers

Proprietary, business-

grade forecasts

Alerting Dashboard

for severe weather

Location-specific

monitoring

“Companion” Apps

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Powerful Mobile Weather Apps

> “Roaming Alerting” monitors threats

and pushes alerts wherever you are

> Companion App to primary hosted

online services offer

> Supports Apple and Android

> Supports multiple languages

> Premium “live” consultation with

meteorologist 24 hours a day

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Why are we doing this?

Seamless integration into non-weather centric

systems (e.g. telematics)

Industry standard OGC model for retrieving

mapping layers and features

Replace batch oriented data delivery with real-time

delivery mechanism

Ubiquitous access to high value data for all device

types

WFS will support advanced analytics for derivative

products

Observations & Forecasting

Weather map layers

Web Mapping Services (WMS)

Web Feature Services (WFS)

Open Geospatial Consortium compliant (OGC)

Weather Data via Web Services

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> Most accurate – independently rated #1 forecasts for eight consecutive years

> Option to install or integrate on-site weather sensors and leverage data to create site-specific

high precision adaptive-learning forecast with maximum accuracy

> Customizable, location-specific weather alerts for the conditions of most importance to the

client (e.g. lightning, high wind)

> Online weather consulting to ask weather-related questions online to an experienced

meteorologist and receive an answer within minutes

> Web services available for easy integration of weather data into facility systems

> Availability of high quality historical weather record

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Weather for Food & Bev

• “Heineken, the world’s third

largest brewer, said poor spring

weather in Europe led to weak

second-quarter revenue”

• “Group volume declined 8% in

Western Europe after a prolonged

spell of cool weather”

Historical Weather

Weather Conditions, Forecasts, and Alerts

Long-Range Seasonal Outlooks and Consultation

> Ability to normalize past demand based on Weather effects

> Long range forecast used to predict seasonal demand

> Expert consultation of weather crop impacts

> Correlate pricing of raw materials based on agricultural production

> Monitor severe weather that can disrupt supply chain

2014 Winter Outlook

Geospatial (GIS) Weather Data

> Ability to correlate weather with crop regions and other retail factors

> Consider recruiting large customer for pilot project

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Largest Agriculture Weather Station Network

> Precision farm-level weather station

> Professional installation and yearly maintenance

> Field level alerts based on the location of the weather station

> Observes and records weather and agronomic data

> Provides highly-localized forecast for immediate and surrounding area of

station

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Key Contact:

Peter Coromilas JonesVice President International Business

Cloud Services

peter.jones@dtn.com

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