WeatherBug^® Protect and WeatherBug^® Protect Enterprise

WeatherBug^® Protect uses the WeatherBug^® Network to monitor potentially threatening weather conditions, including lightning activity, severe storms, heavy rainfall, high heat index, high wind gusts and more. It is also one of the first mobile applications to utilize the proprietary WeatherBug^® Total Lightning Network, which delivers real-time lightning warnings and is the only integrated intracloud (IC) and cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning detection network available nationwide.

WeatherBug^® Protect is the first location-based mobile solution that proactively alerts end-users when severe weather threats are detected or pre-defined weather thresholds are exceeded within their proximity. WeatherBug^® Protect supports messaging for voice, paging, SMS text and email and provides administrators with a delivery status and end-user response message. In addition, the service may be extended via WeatherBug^® Protect Enterprise to serve as a broader notification platform enabling administrators and other officials to initiate their own alert messages.

Key Features of WeatherBug^® Protect

• Integrated within WeatherBug^® Protect is WeatherBug^® Mobile Weather ($2.99 per month value). WeatherBug^® Mobile Weather provides users with weather information wherever and whenever they want it. Right from their mobile device, users have access to Current Conditions, 7-Day Forecast, Hourly Detailed Forecast, Radar, Maps and Alerts for their selected location, whether in the U.S. or traveling around the world.
• WeatherBug^® Protect matches and delivers weather alerts with the location and weather profile of each user.
• Proactive LBS alerting technology delivers critical alerts to handsets even when the application is turned “off” due to smart tracking technology.
• WeatherBug^®’s Meteorological Operations Center monitors changing weather conditions 24/7 and authorizes each alert.
• No full mailbox or long queue of pending alerts. Alerts are automatically removed from the application when they expire. Expired alerts are never downloaded to the phone—even if the phone was off for a long period of time.
• Smart inbox technology displays active alerts only and automatically moves expired alerts to the History folder from where they are automatically deleted after 24 hours.
• Online personalization portal available to registered WeatherBug^® Protect customers where users can manage Protect settings for their handset, including: adjust weather alert settings, set silence time, define static locations and read the user manual. *
• GIS/GPS grade hi-resolution alert maps, including three layers of weather data: Lightning, Radar and National Weather Service “Watches” and “Warnings.” Includes zoom and pan navigation as well as a legend for all layers. *
• Receive weather alerts for three static locations. *

* Improved functionality and expanded options when upgraded to WeatherBug^® Protect Enterprise.

Key Features of WeatherBug^® Protect Enterprise

• WeatherBug^® Protect Enterprise provides a centralized online management tool through which the administrator(s) has the ability to establish unique call-to-action instructions as they relate to specific weather condition alerts. In other words, WeatherBug^® Protect Enterprise allows an organization to match alerts with weather policies and provides a tool to instruct your employees as to their expected behavior during a weather event.
• WeatherBug^® Protect Enterprise customers have access to the online personalization portal where users can manage Protect settings for their handset, including improved functionality and expanded options to adjust weather alert settings, set silence time and define static locations.
• Receive weather alerts for UNLIMITED static locations, including email alert notification.
• GIS/GPS grade hi-resolution alert maps, including 40 layers of weather data: Lightning, Radar and National Weather Service “Watches” and “Warnings.” Includes zoom and pan navigation as well as a legend for all layers.