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Vaisala Compass:
Cloud-based weather intelligence platform for renewable energy

Innovate with confidence

Vaisala Compass addresses the industry’s most pressing weather-related challenges

 

Wind and solar energy strongly depend on the weather, which varies across days, seasons, and years, making it challenging to predict both in the short and long term. In each stage of a renewable energy farm life cycle — from resource assessment to operations — industry players face significant challenges related to weather fluctuation and uncertainty.

From initial site selection to ongoing operations, Vaisala Compass addresses the industry’s most pressing weather-related challenges:

  • Collecting bankable data in increasingly complex site conditions
  • Accurately evaluating weather data for yield resource assessment
  • Securing project financing, and optimizing farm operations

With its comprehensive suite of tools for data management, visualization, and collaboration, Compass accelerates the global transition to clean energy by streamlining site prospecting and project development, enhancing resource assessment accuracy, and improving operational efficiency.

Weather is the fuel and the enabler of renewable energy. As the global expert in weather measurement, Vaisala uniquely contributes to accelerating and securing the development of renewable energy in any terrain and any conditions.

You're in control

Vaisala Compass

 

Efficiently and easily manage your fleet of weather instruments on one software platform. Continuously monitor instrument status and health 24/7 from anywhere.

Remote instrument configuration and run diagnostics ensure your weather measurements are optimized and tailored to your needs. You can quickly investigate problems, get contextual information, and review instrument maintenance history through the logbook.

Optimize campaigns

Compass - Optimize Campaigns

 

Explore resources and map, design and monitor measurement campaigns to ensure weather data bankability.

With included Xweather data, you leverage 40+ years of wind and solar data to make decisions on prospecting suitable sites. Estimate the terrain complexity for your lidar-based measurement campaign and decide on the best location. Then, set the duration of the campaign and monitor its KPI and progress.

Vaisala historical data is based on decades of satellite imagery, multiple decades of global weather data, and cutting-edge weather simulation technology. The data is solidly supported by science plus hundreds of customers worldwide, from project developers and operators to the financial community and renewable energy consultants.

Get full lifecycle value

Optimize campaigns

 

Maximize the weather data value across the full farm lifecycle with Compass.

You can build robust and reliable weather datasets that include metadata information on the conditions in which they were produced (instrument, firmware, terrain, events and more). Powerful visualizations over different time periods show you all the data collected by various instruments and sensors. Download observation data in different formats adapted to your use.

Boost Your Data Availability

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Cleaner, Smarter Wind Data

With Availability Booster in Compass platform, your WindCube 2.1 and 2.1 XP data becomes both cleaner and more complete. Using a neural network–trained filter and an advanced 3LOS algorithm, Compass enhances wind measurements by removing outliers and maximizing data availability.

Ready to harness the full power of weather intelligence?

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Knowledge Brief: Meeting weather-related challenges for wind & solar energy farms

Weather is the fuel of renewable energy. Discover how to turn uncertainty into opportunity. Download our free eBook to learn how Vaisala Compass helps wind and solar farms overcome weather-related challenges across the full project lifecycle.

Industries and applications

The wind and sun have powered civilization for many thousands of years.

Renewable Energy

Vaisala elevates wind and solar customers around the globe so they can meet the greatest energy challenges of our time.
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Solar Energy

Vaisala provides solar stakeholders with powerful insights from 360° weather and environmental technologies.
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Wind Energy

Vaisala’s wind energy solutions are unrivaled in their comprehensiveness and value. Vaisala is the only company on the planet providing end-to-end weather and environmental solutions with fully integrated, globally trusted sensing and digital services.
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Ready to harness the full power of weather intelligence?

Talk to our experts and see how Compass puts you in control of every facet of your weather instruments and data, so you can maximize bankability across the full lifecycle of your renewable energy farm.

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