{"id":11344,"date":"2010-11-30T00:24:36","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T15:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=11344"},"modified":"2010-11-30T00:24:36","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T15:24:36","slug":"kddi-and-weathernews-introduce-new-style-of-weather-updates-for-cellphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/kddi-and-weathernews-introduce-new-style-of-weather-updates-for-cellphone\/","title":{"rendered":"KDDI And Weathernews Introduce New Style Of Weather Updates For Cellphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"KDDI's URL\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/kddi_logo_au.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"71\" height=\"76\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Weathernews' Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/weathernewslogo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"149\" height=\"49\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/soratena_logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11348\" title=\"soratena_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/soratena_logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"99\" height=\"73\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nJapan&#8217;s second largest cellphone operator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kddi.com\/english\/\">KDDI<\/a> and the world&#8217;s largest meteorological company <a href=\"http:\/\/weathernews.com\/?language=en\">Weathernews<\/a> jointly announced that they had launched a new weather update service by using Stevenson screens built on about 100 cellphone base stations in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area, which is named Soratena after sora (meaning &#8216;sky&#8217;) and antenna. \u00a0 The service is available only on KDDI&#8217;s feature phone and smart phone handsets.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/soratena_screenshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11347\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Soratena's Screenshot\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/soratena_screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"513\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEvery station is personificated and has a unique name after its location, and each of them speaks about what&#8217;s happening according to the weather conditions as if it were a human. \u00a0The installed sensors collect updates of air temperature, air pressure, humidity, rain, ultraviolet strength and sunlight at each location.<br \/>\nThis is currently operated in beta and expected to be an official service next April. By then, additional sensor equipments will be installed at another 2,900 base stations nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s second largest cellphone operator KDDI and the world&#8217;s largest meteorological company Weathernews jointly announced that they had launched a new weather update service by using Stevenson screens built on about 100 cellphone base stations in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area, which is named Soratena after sora (meaning &#8216;sky&#8217;) and antenna. \u00a0 The service is available&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/kddi-and-weathernews-introduce-new-style-of-weather-updates-for-cellphone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">KDDI And Weathernews Introduce New Style Of Weather Updates For Cellphone<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,23,24],"tags":[1942,3460,4038],"class_list":["post-11344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-new-service","category-news","tag-kddi","tag-soratena","tag-weathernews","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}