Weather Critical Operations

The Weather Critical Operations business area serves customers in airports, roads, defense and energy markets. It provides products and solutions to support customers in their operational decision making under any weather conditions. Accurate, real-time, uninterrupted and reliable weather data is the cornerstone of efficient operations for its customers.

At airports Vaisala provides weather observations offering to support decision making in improving the efficiency, safety and environmental compatibility of airport operations.

Road authorities benefit from Vaisala's a weather observation, traffic counting and highway advisory product offerings in ensuring safety, and optimizing the efficiency of traffic management and road maintenance operations.

Vaisala weather observation products and systems are used in defense weather observation applications.

Weather Critical Energy market segment focuses on electrical energy customers, such as wind farms, turbine manufacturers, electric utilities and transmission system operators. We provide our customers with the capability to measure their environment and integrate the information in operational decision making, which helps them to optimize the performance and improve the efficiency and safety of their operations.

The Targeted Business Development segment seeks for new market segments and serves the business area's customers which do not belong to any other segment. New segments are searched systematically through analysis, piloting, and entry phases, each with specific development activities. 

Year 2009

The unstable situation of the global economy affected the sales of Weather Critical Operations business area. Customers postponed their investment decisions and in addition, large individual projects, typical for the business area, were not realized.