12.03.2024

Snow depth measurement: Producing the right volume at the right place

Having the right information at the right time is a key success factor for snowmaking crews and ski resorts management when it comes to making snow. Thanks to the skills and in-depth expertise of its snowmaking software development team, TechnoAlpin offers innovative decision support features and tools that contribute to optimize both the performances of snow production facilities and the use of available resources.

One of these features is particularly interesting for snowmaking management teams in order to help making just the right volume of snow, at the right place on the slopes. This is the snow height measurement, integrated directly into ATASSpro (desktop and mobile versions), as well as SNOWMASTER. This feature is integrated in the form of customizable colored layers associated to the map view of the ski resort’s snowmaking system.

For this purpose, TechnoAlpin has developed gateways and interfaces with the most common snow height measurement systems and applications available today, in order to display and give access to these essential data directly into its state-of-the-art snowmaking management software.

This allows snowmaking and resort management teams to gain a precious time when they need to make decision on where and how much snow to produce. With the access to the information of the snow height, displayed directly on the ski resort’s slope map, it becomes easy to prioritize where to produce and where to assign resources to the slopes, or even as precisely as down to the snow pits, that need an additional production of snow.

Saving time and resources is a key success factor when dealing with snow production, particularly at the beginning of the snowmaking season, when each and every hour of cold count, with the opening of the ski resorts’ slopes in sight. And with the snow height measurement, this is easy to achieve.