Near real-time discharge
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access to the API *
Yes
Yes
Yes
10-day river discharge forecast
Yes
Yes
Virtual stations may be relocated anytime
Yes
Yes
2-month historical discharge
Yes
Yes
Water level forecast **
Yes
Alerts and Custom Thresholds
Yes
Water Stock on reservoirs
Yes
Guaranteed uptime
95%
97%
99%
Download up to 30 years of historical discharge data, and get the flow duration curve
€4000 per unit
€4000 per unit
Hydropower production forecast
€100 per virtual station / month
€100 per virtual station / month
Automated report generation
€100 per virtual station / month
€100 per virtual station / month
Minimum virtual station subscription required for customizable Terms & Conditions ***
50
10
6
* The BWI Application Programming Interface (API) documentation is available here.
** Water level forecast, under one condition: there exists a water level ground station and the virtual station supercharges the ground station with water level forecasting capabilities.
*** BWI Terms & Conditions (T&Cs) are available here.
2 payment schemes are available: monthly direct debit (immediate payment and invoicing upon subscribing to the service), or yearly bank transfer (annual invoice issued by BWI on the 1st day of service to be paid by the client within 30 days as per BWI T&Cs).
Additional services may be available upon request and typically consist of bespoke training sessions. For system integration services or the deployment of physical sensors, BWI will typically introduce you to partners.
Basin digitization subscription plans are subject to change without notice. For existing clients, the price is not subject to change.
BWI specializes in the forecasting of river discharge around the globe. BWI brings together in-situ data, space-borne observations and machine learning to feed and empower hydraulic and hydrodynamical models. A provider of online subscription-based virtual continental freshwater monitoring stations, BWI aims to make scalable – across space and time, hydrological forecasts to address climate change induced water stress.
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