AEM Elements® 360

Take command of multi-hazard risk management with AEM Elements 360. Seamlessly convert data into actionable insights for more efficient and effective response coordination to natural hazards.

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Introducing AEM Elements® 360

FORECASt ALERTING

Automated forecast alerting to keep you ahead of the storm

AEM Elements 360 now delivers automated, forecast-based weather alerts that help you act before severe conditions strike. With early warnings based on ENcast® forecasts, real-time updates from the National Weather Service, and AEM’s proprietary Dangerous Thunderstorm Alerts (DTAs), you get precise, location-based notifications across your operations—reducing downtime, improving safety, and enabling confident decisions when it matters most.

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Why choose AEM Elements 360?

Better situational awareness

Unify environmental data from almost any source for more complete real-time insights.

Optimized decision support

Create the data views and toolkit you need to strengthen and automate your approach.

Streamlined collaboration

Share information across agencies and communities to coordinate a powerful response.

How AEM Elements 360 can help you

OPTIMIZED DECISION SUPPORT

Lead with confidence no matter what Mother Nature throws at you

AEM Elements 360 is a decision support application that transforms the uncertainty of natural hazards into a knowable, manageable situation. The application delivers the unmatched combination of historical, real-time, and forecast weather data that first responders, resource management leaders, and public safety organizations need to prepare for, respond to, and recover from any weather event or natural disaster.

EFFICIENT INFORMATION SHARING

Quickly prompt people to act when moments matter

When severe weather strikes, time is of the essence. Sharing accurate information with the right people at the right time is critical to saving lives, optimizing operations, and protecting infrastructure. The automated alerting engine allows users to customize location-based, alerts based on any situation, threshold, or change in conditions and deliver notifications via SMS, email, public web sites, sirens and strobes, and API.

ACTIONABLE INSIGHTS

Merge diverse data for improved real-time situational awareness

Eliminate delays due to fragmented data and monitoring disconnected single-hazard applications. AEM Elements 360 easily integrates data from your in-house networks, AEM’s proprietary networks, and almost any other environmental data source for a consolidated view of all relevant hazards and risks.

Transform this diverse data into actionable insights using a versatile suite of configurable maps, charts, dashboards, and analytics for the highest situational awareness for any area of interest.

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STREAMLINED COLLABORATION

Bring stakeholders together to enable decisive action and positive outcomes

As environmental hazards grow larger and more expensive, an increasing number of stakeholder teams must come together to prepare for and respond to severe weather and natural disasters. Built to be secure, scalable, and mobile-ready, AEM Elements 360 is specifically designed to enable a breakthrough level of collaboration and information sharing across agencies, businesses, communities, and the general public.

THE ESSENTIAL CLIMATE READINESS TOOLKIT

Elevate situational awareness and response across communities

Natural hazards know no bounds. As businesses and communities try to improve their resiliency in the face of rising threats from multiple natural hazard risks, many of those efforts are being hindered by scattered data, poor coordination across key stakeholders, and limited access to timely warnings. Now there’s a way to enhance collaboration, elevate information sharing, and accelerate response when minutes matter. It’s the AEM Elements™ Resiliency Platform & 360 Application.

AEM Elements 360® FAQs

AEM Elements 360 is designed to help agencies, businesses, and communities prepare for, monitor, detect, and respond to a wide array of natural hazards. This includes but is not limited to flood early warning, severe weather early warning, wildfire detection and monitoring, post wildfire debris flows, lightning detection, landslides, and climate monitoring. The system brings together historical, real-time, and forecast weather data, providing a comprehensive view of all relevant hazards and risks.

By transforming the uncertainty of natural hazards into a knowable, manageable situation, AEM Elements 360 equips you with the data, insights, and tools needed to make informed decisions. The application provides a unified view of environmental data from almost any source and turns this data into insights via customizable maps, charts, dashboards, and analytics. This enhanced real-time situational awareness makes it easier to understand the full scope of any situation and act accordingly.

AEM Elements 360 can integrate data from virtually any source. This includes your in-house sensing networks, AEM’s proprietary networks, and almost any other environmental data source. This integrated approach provides a consolidated view of all relevant hazards and risks, enabling you to make confident data-driven decisions.

To request a demo of the AEM Elements application, please schedule a consultation here. An AEM representative will reach out to you to schedule a tailored demonstration and help you understand how AEM Elements 360 can meet your needs in managing environmental risk.

Yes, AEM Elements 360 is designed to be compatible with a broad range of sensor suites and data services. It can seamlessly integrate data from your existing sensor or weather station network, providing hyperlocal real-time insights focused on your specific area of interest.

Yes, the automated alerting engine enables users to configure complex alerting criteria based on multiple locations, conditions, and thresholds. The application can deliver notifications to multiple recipients via various channels such as SMS, email, public websites, sirens and strobes, and API. This ensures that critical information is shared rapidly and widely to prompt people to act.

AEM Elements 360 is designed to be secure, scalable, and mobile-ready. This ensures compatibility with a wide range of devices, enabling you to access critical information and collaborate effectively from anywhere.

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Sferic Connect

Keeping your team safe from severe weather is tough when they’re on the move, working in the field, or deployed across multiple locations. Sferic Connect makes it simple. This mobile app delivers real-time weather alerts and live data, empowering your team to monitor conditions, make fast decisions, and ensure safety wherever work takes them.

Severe weather monitoring for mobile teams

Critical alerts, tailored to you

Receive GPS-based, real-time notifications to stay informed of severe weather threats—right where you are.

Built for distributed teams

Designed for field workers and teams across multiple locations, Sferic Connect ensures reliable access to weather data and alerts.

Severe weather expertise

Weather at your fingertips

Access critical weather data in a user-friendly app, with live radar, lightning data, and location-specific forecasts in the palm of your hand.

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AUTOMATE ACTION

Trusted weather data on the go

Free weather apps often provide inconsistent and unreliable reports of current conditions and when storms will arrive. Sferic Connect delivers precise, hyperlocal weather data and forecasts powered by AEM’s global weather networks. Access live radar, lightning, Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT), rainfall, wind, and more—all backed by thousands of professional-grade weather stations and the Earth Networks Total Lightning Network®, the world’s most accurate lightning detection system. With hourly and 7-day forecasts tailored to your locations, Sferic Connect equips you to make informed decisions and stay ahead of severe weather, no matter where you are.

real-time notifications

Alerts for every location, including yours

Sferic Connect keeps your team informed with GPS-based notifications and customizable alerts tailored to the locations that matter most. The “follow me” feature ensures everyone receives real-time alerts based on their current location, anywhere they go, any time of day. Organizations can also define alerts for specific departments, locations, or weather conditions. Whether monitoring one site or many, Sferic Connect delivers the right alerts to the right people at the right time.

AUTOMATE ACTION

Organizational control
over weather-related warnings

Sferic Connect gives your organization the ability to control when and where weather-related warnings are enacted across all your locations. With a single, reliable source of weather data, you can ensure efficient and uniform implementation of your weather and lightning safety policies. Customize how your team stays informed by defining:

  • Who receives alerts when a threat is detected at any site.
  • Locations to monitor for severe weather threats.
  • Rules for specific weather conditions at each location.

FAQs

Sferic Connect is available for both Android and iOS devices, making it accessible for teams in the field and on the move.

The “follow me” feature uses GPS on your mobile device to send weather alerts based on your real-time location. This ensures you stay informed and safe from severe weather wherever you go.

Sferic Connect is ideal for emergency managers, construction teams, transportation hubs, school districts, and other organizations with field teams or distributed locations.

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FTS360

Track weather changes, monitor conditions, and keep a close watch over high-risk locations in real-time before, during, and after an event with our intelligent wildfire software platform.  

Why Choose AEM?

Complete situational awareness

View and curate sensor and station data, camera images, and video in one wildfire software platform.

Customizable intelligent platform

Configure advanced calculations and intelligent alerts in our intuitive programming environment.

Advanced security and privacy

Edge to cloud data security protects your data and privacy.

Wildfire software for complete situational awareness

intelligent camera technology

SmartGT

Intelligent camera guard tour technology in FTS360 wildfire software so you can easily pinpoint and watch high-risk locations in real time.

  • Receive automated alerts for high-risk conditions, such as lightning strikes, within your viewshed.
  • Add high-risk locations to the guard tour to view the latest images within seconds and easily monitor for hazardous events, such as wildfires.
  • Collect and display images together by azimuth for easier interpretation by the human eye.

Public awareness

Overwatch

  • Designed for emergency response shared resources and public awareness.
  • FTS360 wildfire software customers can enable public viewing of their data.
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custom programming

NodeRED

NodeRED is a visual tool within FTS360 wildfire software that allows users to write, test and deploy custom programs in real-time.

  • Setup, configure, and manage devices, APIs, and online services to meet specific needs.
  • Write custom alerts to perform actions such as emails, tweets, or taking a photo.
  • Built-in library supports data ingestion, calculation of Canadian FDRS codes and more.
  • Learn NodeRED via online platform resources.

Security and privacy

Edge to cloud data security

Edge to cloud data security protects your data and privacy:

  • Devices and users have encrypted login credentials.
  • GDPR compliant, no personal user data is collected.
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Real-time data transmission

High-Rate Information Transmission (HRIT)

FTS invests in high-rate information transmission (HRIT) to ensure GOES data is received within seconds of being transmitted:

  • Near real-time alerting network using random transmissions that arrive in FTS360 wildfire software 10 seconds after station transmission.
  • Data integrity assured through redundant collection paths.
  • GOES satellite network operates reliably even during extreme weather events that threaten terrestrial based networks.
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Advanced features

Value-add layers

Customize to your wildfire software needs with optional upgrades including:

  • Lightning: Use power of the Earth Networks Total Lightning Network® to detect lightning strikes and create alerts.
  • Air Quality Index: Select from pre-defined AQI tables and view color-coded air quality for region.
  • GIS asset mapping: Enhance map views in FTS360 using customized ESRI shape files and KML files to display boundaries and assets.

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How to Maximize Wildfire Preparedness and Response

We discuss how wildfires are a major challenge for utilities and local agencies managing Wildland Urban Interface (WUI). This free, one-hour learning session focuses on how organizations are addressing the wildfire event curve head-on with leading monitoring tools and software, including how to:

  • Accelerate wildfire detection and automate forecasting leveraging remote monitoring
  • Increase public and employee safety with automated, highly accurate Fire Danger Ratings
  • Track fire response and mitigation more effectively with real-time data from the field
  • Maintain situational awareness of fire risks during thunderstorms with lightning detection
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Sferic Maps®

Storms don’t have to mean delays, downtime, or danger. Sferic Maps gives you the web-based software you need to track severe weather, receive instant alerts, and make proactive decisions—protecting your people, property, and peace of mind.

The smart choice for severe weather safety

Severe weather expertise

Trusted weather data

Access reliable insights from AEM’s global network of thousands of professional-grade weather stations.

Unmatched lightning detection

Get fast, accurate severe weather warnings, powered by our Earth Networks Total Lightning Network®.

Customizable dashboards

Anticipate and respond to multiple weather threats simultaneously with access to over 80 weather conditions.

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COMPLETE VIEW

Elevated situational awareness

Sferic Maps provides clear visibility into current and developing weather conditions, helping you stay informed and act quickly. With access to a library of 80+ map layers, you can understand weather impacts like never before.

  • Earth Networks Total Lightning Network: Be ready before the storm arrives using the most reliable and precise lightning detection in the world.
  • Current and forecasted radar: Understand what’s happening now and what’s coming next.
  • Severe weather layers: Be prepared to respond to any threat all year round,  from tropical weather and extreme heat to freezing rain and snow.

AUTOMATE ACTION

Proactive, customizable alerts

Whether you’re managing an event, overseeing a facility, or ensuring workplace safety, Sferic Maps keeps you informed even when you’re not actively monitoring the weather.  Receive instant notifications through email or text message so you never miss critical updates. Send alerts to a custom distribution list, ensuring that the correct people are informed at the right time. You can tailor alerts to specific weather conditions—such as lightning, Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT), or high winds—so they align perfectly with your organization’s unique needs and severe weather policies.

MOBILE DATA

Weather insights for teams on the move

Whether your team is in the field, working at multiple locations, or in remote areas, Sferic Maps ensures they can access all their weather data and alerts from any mobile device. Use a web browser for quick and easy access, or opt for the Sferic Connect mobile app for enhanced features like GPS-based alerts and push notifications. Both options deliver real-time updates tailored to the user and your organization’s weather safety policies.

Customer Stories

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Palm Beach County coordinates district-wide weather safety

Watch how the county coordinates weather safety information across multiple locations with Earth Networks.

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Improved lightning alerts for airports in Argentina

Watch how EANA has created custom lightning alerts for specific distances around their airports.

FAQs

Sferic Maps is accessible on any web browser, providing flexibility for use on desktop and mobile devices. For teams in the field, the Sferic Connect mobile app is specifically designed for Android and iOS devices, ensuring they stay informed and connected wherever they are.

Absolutely. Sferic Maps allows you to tailor alerts based on specific weather conditions, locations, and organizational needs. You can also deliver different alerts to different user groups, ensuring that individuals only receive notifications when they need to act. This flexibility helps streamline communication and prevent alert fatigue.

Sferic Maps is ideal for any organization that needs to monitor and respond to lightning and severe weather conditions to protect people, property, and operations. This includes emergency management teams, school districts, club and sports managers, event planners, and airlines and airports. Whether you’re managing a single site or a distributed network of locations, Sferic Maps provides the tools to make proactive, weather-driven decisions.

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