NMS / Flex Ops is the central application of many utility customers of Oracle Energy and Water. There are many great features already being added to this great OMS / ADMS suite, so why not make weather more visible for customers?
Knowing NMS is capable of integrating with NOAA API calls, perhaps NMS could have a “Weather Pane” along with / or just simple Banners at the top or the bottom. When a NOAA weather alert is issued for the region or counties of an utility company, NMS will receive that alert and display a notificaiton similar to how we see it today in our smart phones.
If there is not a specific “Notifications” pane in NMS/Flex Ops, perhaps a basic one could be developed only for weather alerts and there could be a button to activate it. It would then come up on the sides or top of the Web workspace interface or the Flex Ops interface showing all active / recent weather alerts.
Weather alerts that would be useful and available from NOAA: Storms (many types), Tornado, Tropical, Wind, Winter, etc.
Perhaps the types of alerts would be up to the end-user / utility company, but if a Notification center is created or banners are created to receive and display these types of alerts, there could be image icons preset depending on the type of alert, for the banners in NMS and Flex Ops interfaces.