A man walks through a flooded market in the outskirts of Bangkok in November 2021. Asian countries are especially vulnerable to weather-related hazards.
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YOHEI MURAMATSU, JYO CHOU and RHYANNON BARTLETT-IMADEGAWA, Nikkei staff writers |
BANGKOK/TOKYO/LONDON — More companies are using artificial intelligence to help shield clients in Asian countries such as Thailand and Vietnam from the fallout from weather-related disasters.
Damage from a flash flood in 2021 prompted an electronics factory at Thailand’s Bangpoo industrial park to sign up for a pilot forecast service from Weathernews, a leading Japanese weather company. The service, which debuted in February, lets the factory outside Bangkok track the likelihood of sudden weather changes nearby within a three-hour period.
