What Will Flood Warning Systems of the Future Look Like?

LONGMONT, COLORADO, June 11, 2015 – OneRain’s Mike Zucosky will be taking a look at flood warning systems of the future in his presentation at the National Hydrologic Warning Council’s 2015 Training Conference & Exposition in Indianapolis, Indiana, June 15-18, 2015. OneRain Inc., a leading provider of real-time and historical hydrologic and rainfall-related data solutions, software and services, is a title sponsor and one of the main contributors of the biennial conference.

The growth and increasing robustness of Internet services, especially wireless access, has changed how and where flood early warning systems can be deployed. Cloud-based software services are also changing how data is collected and viewed during critical events. The development of Smart Cities and the rise of Social Media has also begun to open new paths for data collection and dissemination. At the same time, growing concerns over the privacy of data and security related to IT infrastructure will require proactive solutions to these potential problems.

OneRain’s presentation will examine these trends and present possible impacts that innovation in other fields may have on the design and implementation of flood warning systems years from now. It will explore the future of sensing, data transmission and collection, data sharing, collaboration and distribution. Today’s flood warning paradigms will shift. The future of flood warning systems will be a brave new world.

Photo credit: Fritz Law, OneRain, June 12, 2015. Urban Flooding East of Alameda and Santa Fe, Denver, Colorado

The 2015 National Hydrologic Warning Council (NHWC) biennial conference—the largest conference of its kind in the United States—will be attended by prominent federal and state officials and hydrologic warning professionals. As one of the main sponsors and industry experts, several other members of the OneRain team are presenting throughout the conference on a variety of topics including designing networks for ALERT2™, and the visualization tools that aid in those designs. Stop by OneRain’s booth where you can meet with the team and see some of the new features and enhancements recently added to OneRain’s Contrail® real-time hydrologic monitoring and warning software application.

For more information about the NHWC and the 2015 NHWC conference, “Advances in Hydrologic Warning – The Race to Save Lives.”, visit www.hydrologicwarning.org

About OneRain Incorporated
For more than 20 years, OneRain has been providing private and public sector clients across the United States and around the world with solutions to optimize water management, heighten regulatory compliance, achieve successful civil works, and save lives. OneRain’s innovative products and services serve clients in Flood Early Warning and Emergency Management, Dam Safety and Reservoir Operations, Water Resource Management, Post Wild Fire Mitigation, Urban Pluvial Water Management, and Stormwater and Wastewater Management. For more information, visit www.onerain.com or call 1-800-758-RAIN (7246).

Contact Information
Rosemarie O’Connell, Sales & Marketing, OneRain Incorporated
Phone: 303-774-2033 | E-mail: information@onerain.com

OneRain Announces Major Software Release for its Contrail Hydrologic Data Collection Platform

LONGMONT, COLORADO, April 14, 2015 – OneRain Inc., a leading provider of real-time and historical hydrologic and rainfall-related data solutions and services, today announced a major new software release for its Contrail® platform that brings full capabilities and accessibility to all devices (desktop, mobile, tablet) for a rich, engaging, context-relevant user experience.

Contrail is the leading enterprise-level software platform that collects, processes and delivers real-time sensor data from local hydrometeorological networks and other external sources for Web-based dissemination, visualization, monitoring and alerting. Users can quickly see important and relevant information in charts, graphs, maps, alerts, data feeds, and reports, that is key to their effective and timely decision-making.

The new version reflects the continuing trend towards mobile accessibility and demonstrates OneRain’s continued commitment in supporting their clients who rely on timely and up-to-date information to manage their responsibilities in flood early warning and emergency management, dam safety, stormwater management and other areas of water resource management.

With the ever growing use of smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices, OneRain continues to innovate by introducing Contrail’s new adaptive, responsive and contextual design built on a single code base platform. Contrail’s new framework maintains consistent features and usability across various devices. Now users can have the same feature-rich experience with Contrail whether at their desk, home, or doing field work.

“In addition to the overall framework update, there is a continued emphasis on the user interface and data-relevant visualization that makes it easier for users to quickly understand the data and manage their hydrologic networks,” states Mike Zucosky, OneRain’s Director of Operations. “This important update to Contrail provides flexibility for future product enrichment and is based on Web standards and best practices to allow for browser compliance into the foreseeable future. We have paid special attention to the suggestions and feed-back received from our clients who tried out the beta version over the past couple of months,” adds Mr. Zucosky.

This major new release features many new enhancements designed to provide critical real-time operational analytics and present essential information quickly. Highlights of the new Contrail release are:

  • Adaptive and Responsive Design: Contrail’s new responsive and adaptive design is optimized to run across a broad set of devices, fluidly changing and responding to fit any screen or device size. Whether in the field, or at their desktop, users will be able to accomplish virtually all of their Contrail management tasks no matter what device they’re on – desktop, laptop, tablet, smartphone – no matter what screen size.
  • Dashboard Displays provide high-level data views: Users will be able to access data, in context, quickly and more comprehensively. Efficient viewing of data ensures an enhanced mobile device experience. And because it’s the the same user interface no matter what the device, users will find information and controls on the screen where they expect them.
  • Updated graphing and mapping interactions gets users to their data faster, saving valuable time and providing context to the data to help them understand the data more efficiently. Optimized for desktop and mobile, mapping and graphing has never looked so good.

Update Availability
This software update is available to all OneRain-hosted Contrail Web and Contrail Server users as well as licensed on-premise Contrail Base Station users current with standard maintenance. There’s no need for customers to take action to receive the update. This update will be performed during OneRain’s standard software maintenance and updates schedule on the second Tuesday of each month, during which Contrail Base Station software updates and operating system patches, if pending, will be deployed by OneRain personnel.

Training
In addition to OneRain’s monthly Contrail training sessions, complimentary webinar training sessions are available to OneRain clients after this update. Please contact OneRain to arrange refresher training or if you’d just like to learn more about these recent enhancements. OneRain offers a variety of online webinar training sessions for their software and solutions. These training sessions ensure users keep current and gain the maximum value from OneRain software and products.

About OneRain IncorporatedFor more than 20 years, OneRain has been providing private and public sector clients across the United States and around the world with solutions to optimize water management, heighten regulatory compliance, achieve successful civil works, and save lives. OneRain’s innovative products and services serve our clients in Flood Early Warning and Emergency Management, Dam Safety and Reservoir Operations, Water Resource Management, Post Fire Mitigation, Floodplain Management, Urban Water Management, and Stormwater Management, and Wastewater Management.For more information, visit www.onerain.com or call 1-800-758-RAIN (7246). Contact InformationRosemarie O’Connell, Sales & Marketing, OneRain IncorporatedPhone : 303-774-2033 | E-mail: information@onerain.com

About OneRain Incorporated
For more than 20 years, OneRain has been providing private and public sector clients across the United States and around the world with solutions to optimize water management, heighten regulatory compliance, achieve successful civil works, and save lives. OneRain’s innovative products and services serve clients in Flood Early Warning and Emergency Management, Dam Safety and Reservoir Operations, Water Resource Management, Post Wild Fire Mitigation, Floodplain Management, Urban Water Management, and Stormwater and Wastewater Management. For more information, visit www.onerain.com or call 1-800-758-RAIN (7246).

 

Contact Information
Rosemarie O’Connell, Sales & Marketing, OneRain Incorporated
Phone : 303-774-2033 | E-mail: information@onerain.com

2013 Colorado Flood Event – Flood Early Warning System

LONGMONT, COLORADO, October 1, 2013 – It’s been a busy time here in Colorado as our team has been supporting the recovery efforts from last month’s epic flood event.

OneRain field truck follows a detective through flood devastated area

 

OneRain installed and currently maintains a considerable number of the hydrologic gauges along the Colorado Front Range and provides the software for real-time data collection, monitoring and alerting. Members of our field staff have been seeing first hand, the destruction and devastation that the powerful floodwaters caused, as they venture out to perform maintenance and evaluate the condition of gauges in the network.

OneRain field staff attempt to access gauge to evaluate a flood-damaged gauge site

Our systems performed well during this historic event. Our software application, Contrail®, provided the continuous real-time data collection, early warning alarming, and notifications and monitoring of the numerous rainfall, stage, and stream flow gauge sites in the region, while several of our personnel were on hand in the midst of the storm assessing the data and providing assistance to coordinators and first responders in the Emergency Operations Center.

The OneRain team is passionate and committed to helping our local agencies in their missions to detect, reduce risks, respond, and minimize losses in potential flood-producing rainfall storm events and our thoughts are with all those impacted by this devastating flood that hit our home state.