Our mission
From detection to decision: almost 40 years of lightning analysis empowering your decisions
Our vision
For nearly 40 years, Meteorage has been providing reliable lightning detection and decision-support services to businesses across Europe and worldwide.
We deliver critical information directly to our clients or through partners, mainly via subscription services tailored to each sector’s operational needs. Our goal is to provide actionable insights that help clients anticipate, prevent, and respond to thunderstorm risks effectively.
Our storm monitoring network covers a large part of Europe, ensuring continuity, reliability, and high-quality information everywhere.
We help our clients make informed decisions during storms by enabling them to:
⚡ Receive alerts when a storm is approaching and know when operations can safely resume.
⚡ Monitor storm development and severity to adapt safety procedures in real time.
⚡ Confirm lightning strikes after a storm to validate incidents, optimize preventive maintenance, or check installations.
⚡ Assess site-specific risk through statistical indicators to implement appropriate protection measures.
Helping our clients make the right decisions
Beyond real-time alerts, Meteorage offers tailored solutions designed to meet each client’s operational needs. Our “one product = one application” approach ensures that services are fully compliant with international standards, personalized, and continuously improved in collaboration with users.
Through recognized expertise, participation in international standardization efforts, research collaborations, and publications, Meteorage combines technological excellence, operational reliability, and client-focused innovation. Our mission is to empower clients, protect people and assets, and foster a culture of risk awareness across industries.
With a 98% subscription renewal rate, our clients trust us for high-quality data, customized support, and solutions that make a real difference in their daily operations.
Our values
They guide our actions and inspire our employees every day to offer our customers innovative solutions and excellent service.
Innovation
Innovation is at the heart of our DNA.
It has a clear objective: to improve user benefits and create value for our users, whatever their field of activity. In line with this objective, we are developing in-house our service generation and detection network management platform, a tool that is absolutely unique on the market, and over which we have complete control.
Developments are carried out using agile methods, both to integrate technological and scientific developments and to respond rapidly to expectations for operational improvements.
Our recurring investment in R&D is massive, with 3/4 of our technical team allocated to these functions.
Service-minded
Service is more than what we deliver — it defines who we are.
At Meteorage, every employee contributes to customer satisfaction, whether they interact directly with clients or work behind the scenes. This shared mindset guarantees a flawless customer experience and is reflected in our 98% subscription renewal rate, proof of lasting trust and shared success.
Our service approach is built on personalization, reliability, and close collaboration with our users, ensuring that every solution is optimized for their specific operational needs.
Excellence
The raw material that Meteorage deals with, lightning and thunderstorms, is eminently dangerous, and we are aware of the risks incurred by our customers who rely on us to reduce them. That’s our duty.
The quest for excellence therefore applies to the entire Meteorage value chain, from the lightning detection network, which uses the best available technology, to our services, which are constantly adapted and subject to stringent quality and availability monitoring.
Commitment
Commitment is first and foremost synonymous with involvement and motivation, both individual and collective, in the service of our mission and the objectives we set ourselves.
Meteorage’s activity is, by its very nature, at the service of the planet. So it’s only natural that we should commit ourselves to an ambitious social and environmental approach, covering all aspects of the ISO 26000 standard.
Team Spirit
We cultivate a friendly and stimulating working environment in which everyone can develop and express their potential and talents.
We are convinced that the well-being of our employees combined with their commitment is essential to our success.
Meteorage’s mode of governance is based on the autonomy and responsibility of each employee. In return, we encourage collaborative working wherever possible, in a constant search for collective efficiency.
Our CSR commitment
Since its creation, Meteorage has placed Corporate Social Responsibility at the heart of its strategy. Our approach is structured around seven major objectives designed to create a lasting, positive impact:
- Protect people and property by developing innovative prevention services and supporting research on weather-related risks.
- Promote a culture of risk through studies, partnerships, and awareness-raising initiatives on thunderstorm safety.
- Ensure transparent and ethical governance through an internal charter guaranteeing integrity and accountability.
- Foster skills and quality of life at work by providing a supportive and balanced environment.
- Promote diversity and inclusion to ensure equal opportunities for all.
- Reduce our environmental footprint by developing sustainable digital solutions and optimizing our energy use.
- Support regional development through local partnerships, supplier engagement, and community initiatives.
Our mission:
save lives and protect property
Since 1987
ISO 9001 certification
Qualifoudre certification
International presence
A history marked by a pioneering spirit
1987
Creation of the start-up METEORAGE.
Installation of the lightning detection network in France.
1988
Creation of CATS.
Development of our lightning detection network management and service production software.
1990
Extension of the METEORAGE network – the European Lightning Detection Network (ELDN), outside France.
2001
Météo-France and G.A.I. become shareholders.
Météo-France takes control of METEORAGE. G.A.I. (USA), a manufacturer of lightning detection sensors, becomes the 2nd shareholder.
2002
Vaisala becomes a shareholder in METEORAGE.
Vaisala (Finland) acquires G.A.I.
2009
Renewal of the French network and the METEORAGE operational center.
2018
Innovation and development of our services.
Integration of storm cells into our storm and lightning monitoring solutions.
