Event Alarm

Our short-term alert for organisers of outdoor events, to ensure the safety of the public, your staff and your facilities in real time.

Your issues

You are organizing an outdoor event, such as a sporting fixture, a show or a festival, and you are looking for a reliable solution to better manage the risk of thunderstorms during the event.

You need to be alerted well in advance to the arrival of a thunderstorm threatening the safety of those attending the event and your equipment.

You want to know when the thunderstorm has really passed so that your event can resume in complete safety.

You need a simple, inexpensive solution, available on demand, to cover the entire period during which the risk is present, from installation to dismantling.

Our solution

The Event Alarm alerts you in good time via SMS to a confirmed risk of a thunderstorm threatening your event. You can then implement all the necessary safety measures.

You will also be alerted once the thunderstorm is far away enough for you to resume your event in complete safety.

The Event Alarm is available for sale online on our website, for periods of 2, 7 or 14 days. It does not require the installation of any equipment, software or mobile applications. It is fully operated by METEORAGE for optimum reliability.

How does it work?

When you purchase the service, a standard circular monitoring area is established around your site. As soon as a thunderstorm reaches the monitoring area, you receive a message indicating the beginning of the alarm by SMS, giving you sufficient notice to take precautionary measures.

An end-of-alarm message is sent to you when there is no longer any risk (30 minutes without any further lightning detected in the area) so that you can resume your activity.

You can set the receipt times for your different means of communication or access a record of alarms in your dedicated online space.

Advantages for users

01Complies with the international standard IEC 62793 on thunderstorm warning systems (TWS).

02High level of system security, with management and control provided by our 24/7 operations centre.

03No need to install equipment, tools or mobile applications.

04Configured to suit the typical requirements of your business sector.

05Customer satisfaction and service resubscription rates above 98%.

06Data from the best detection technologies currently available from:
– the METEORAGE network (ELDN) in Europe, with location accuracy of <100 meters. Our network’s performance exceeds the requirements in the standards,
– the GLD360 network for the rest of the world.

What our customers say

The FNHPA brings together campsite operators, whether private, municipal or associative, independent or part of a group, representing 4,000 sites in France today. This is the leading mode of tourist accommodation in our country, with 124 million overnight stays in 2017 alone.

People’s safety is a top priority for us, hence the importance of being warned about lightning via METEORAGE’s alerts, which we have been using for many years. This ensures that campsite operators know in advance when a storm episode will begin and end. As a result, they can make decisions with greater autonomy and effectiveness to confine their customers to shelter or evacuate them where necessary, and their customers find this reassuring.

This is particularly true as the information from METEORAGE is very reliable. Only proven risks are communicated, and the information is also perfectly localised: it really does concern the campsite’s local area, and not the other end of the town. There are significantly fewer accidents due to lightning now than there were fifteen years ago.”

Nicolas Dayot
President of FNHPA
France

We had planned a party with a band, the place was full of campers and we didn’t know if we needed to cancel the event.

The visualisation tool and the location accuracy meant that we were able to follow the movement of the storm cell. Although there’s an area of 15km around the campsite, when you look at the display there’s a wider window that allows you to evaluate the cell’s movement. We received a lightning alarm because there were some strikes in the surveillance zone, but we could see that the cell wasn’t moving towards our campsite, so we let the musicians play. As a result, we avoided any financial or material loss, and the party mood wasn’t even spoiled because the customers didn’t know anything about the storm. Yet other campsites that are 40km away from ours were severely affected by the same storm, with very significant damage.”

Gé Kusters
Camping LE PARADIS
France

There’s no denying the fact that thunderstorms are becoming more common, and a site like ours which is frequented by the general public has to take this into account.

[…] The METEORAGE tool with which we have been provided gives us a better understanding of lightning risks in advance of storm episodes, so we can anticipate what action needs to be taken. […] There are free services available on the Internet that we could use, but METEORAGE has developed some highly sophisticated services. These give us a real-time view of the storm cell and its geographical direction, and we can see the frequency and intensity of the strikes. With this very precise information, we are able to make the right choices.”

GRAND PARC DU PUY DU FOU
France