Weather, Heat, & Air Quality Monitoring for Schools
We help coaches and athletic directors practice whenever it's safe and protect students when it isn't.
Protect your students | Prevent confusion
AEM handles the weather so you can focus on students
- Need to know if it's safe to practice?
- Concerned about extreme heat or facing new regulations?
- Worried poor air quality could put students at risk?
- Want to communicate about weather decisions clearly?
We can help you do all that and more.
We connect administrators and athletic directors with...
Accurate, hyperlocal weather data
We install affordable Vantage Pro2™ weather stations and AirLink air quality sensors to monitor heat stress and AQI right where your students practice.
Weather decision support application
AEM Elements® 360 brings weather, heat stress, air quality, and lightning information together in a single, digestible application your team can rely on.
Clear, automated communication
Send customizable alerts and display real-time dashboards, maps, and forecasts for coaches, parents, or staff. Help everyone stay informed and protected.
What's WBGT?
Wet bulb globe temperature
It's a measure of how people actually experience current conditions outside as they move and sweat.
WBGT considers ambient air temperature, humidity, wind chill, and solar radiation to see past the limitations of a traditional thermometer.
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It's much better than heat index
WBGT is great for athletics programs because it accounts for cooling factors like wind and sweat as well as warming factors.
That means it can tell you if it's actually too hot for outdoor activities or just an extra warm, beautiful day.
Whether you're in a state where there are heat stress regulations or just a school that wants to take every precaution to protect student-athletes and prevent liability, WBGT is the way to keep everyone safe.
What's AQI?
Air Quality Index
It's a particulate air pollution score that makes it easy to understand when conditions are dangerous for sensitive groups, like students with asthma or heart conditions.
When the AQI is over 100, it's advisable to keep those kids indoors. When it's over 150, it's time to get everybody inside.
Protect students from wildfire smoke
Wildfires can pollute the air from hundreds of miles away, depending on weather conditions.
When smoke is in the area, AQI ratings spike rapidly, and things can become dangerous for anybody, especially young people in those high-risk groups.
By proactively monitoring AQI, you can understand real-time conditions in your exact location, so you can be outside when it's safe and come inside when it isn't.
Why AEM?
Custom Weather Dashboards
We provide all the data and maps you need to make weather decisions in a single screen.
Public Data Views
We make it easy to share your weather alerts and the data behind them with parents and the community.
Fully Customizable Alerts
You can create role-based notifications around any weather parameter (WBGT, AQI, lightning proximity, etc.).
Made in the U.S.A.
We assemble all systems in our U.S. offices and pass the savings on to you.
Success story
School District of Palm Beach County
The School District of Palm Beach County is roughly the size of Rhode Island, with 180 schools spread out across the region.
Compliance with the Zachary Martin Act of 2020 is crucial to the district, so we helped them build a site-based weather safety solution so they could keep students and athletes safe at each school without undue cancellations.
Our customers say...
Working with [AEM] has been wonderful. It has been an opportunity for our school to move forward with technology and really helps us guide our decision making for athletic events and practices. Joanne Dzama, Athletic Director, Morristown-Beard School
[AEM] enables us to give exact geographic severe weather warnings for our schools, right when it's happening, right where it's happening. Fred Cahill, Safety Technician, School District of Palm Beach County
We were able to add [weather alerts] to all our school, elementary through high schools. Elementary schools use it for PE, and they also use the weather alerts around dismissal times. At the high school, they use it for their sports and all their outdoor activities. Our police use it for their command center. Elizabeth Henry, Safety Technician, School District of Palm Beach County
