Earlier this season, The Weather Company teamed up with Chevrolet Racing to offer forecasting data that might help its teams get a competitive edge in races.
The Weather Company, a subsidiary of IBM and the source of data for The Weather Channel, offers a network of 275,000 personal weather stations and millions of IoT devices delivering constant streams of atmospheric data into an AI-enabled platform that projects conditions with a half-kilometer granularity.
The data and forecasts—which draw on 162 weather models—are now integrated into Chevrolet’s race-day software to help its NASCAR, IndyCar and IMSA (sports car racing) teams.