Automated broadcast of weather alerts to staff and clients

Purpose

1. Deliver automated, real-time weather alerts (e.g., severe storms, temperature spikes, rainfall) to agistment staff and clients managing grazing leases.

2. Minimize livestock risk, optimize safety protocols, protect property, and help clients make timely pasture management decisions.

3. Centralize alert broadcasting; support multi-channel distribution (SMS, email, push, voice, chat, webhook).

4. Ensure consistent, compliant, and documented communications for operational transparency and client trust.

Trigger Conditions

1. Weather API detects severe weather relevant to lease coordinates (e.g., alerts from BOM, NOAA, Met Office).

2. Internal schedule (e.g., daily/weekly/seasonal forecast summary dispatch).

3. Emergency escalation from IoT/field sensors (e.g., wind, temperature, rainfall thresholds).

4. Manual override by authorized operations staff.

Platform Variants

—Each entry lists:

• Feature/Setting: Description and sample configuration.
  

1. Twilio SMS

• Feature/Setting: SMS Messaging API — configured with recipient phone numbers, automated trigger, and weather alert text payload.
  

2. SendGrid

• Feature/Setting: Single Send API for transactional emails — send weather alerts to distribution lists with custom templates.
  

3. Mailgun

• Feature/Setting: Messages API — script auto-generation of weather alert emails and set recipient filtering/tagging.
  

4. Slack

• Feature/Setting: Incoming Webhooks — push alert message to private channels with event-triggered posting.
  

5. Microsoft Teams

• Feature/Setting: Incoming Webhook Connector — deliver notifications to pre-selected Teams channels.
  

6. Telegram

• Feature/Setting: Bot API — configure bot to broadcast alert messages to subscribed clients or group chats.
  

7. WhatsApp Business API

• Feature/Setting: Template Messages — automated sending of pre-approved weather alerts to client numbers.
  

8. Pushover

• Feature/Setting: Message API — configure user/device groups, push notifications for instant mobile/desktop pop-ups.
  

9. Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM)

• Feature/Setting: Topic Messaging — automate push notifications to staff mobile devices using topic subscriptions.
  

10. Zoom Chat

• Feature/Setting: Chatbot Integration — scripted alerts to group chats or individual staff accounts.
  

11. Amazon SNS

• Feature/Setting: Topic-based Notification — multi-protocol alerting (SMS, email, HTTP endpoints) for lease groups.
  

12. PagerDuty

• Feature/Setting: Event API — repurpose for critical weather/incident escalation to on-call staff.
  

13. Discord

• Feature/Setting: Webhook or Bot — distribution of weather updates to role-restricted channels.
  

14. Zendesk

• Feature/Setting: Triggered Notification — auto-generate tickets or alerts to shared inboxes or client support contacts.
  

15. Google Chat

• Feature/Setting: Incoming Webhook — push message cards with alert details and action links.
  

16. Microsoft Outlook 365

• Feature/Setting: Automated Flows (Power Automate) — route alerts to inboxes or SMS via email-to-text gateways.
  

17. LINE Messaging API

• Feature/Setting: Push Message API — deliver structured notifications to registered users.
  

18. Signal

• Feature/Setting: Unofficial Bots/Webhooks — push weather notifications to number lists or groups.
  

19. Mattermost

• Feature/Setting: Incoming Webhook — inject alert messages into staff and management channels.
  

20. Facebook Messenger Platform

• Feature/Setting: Send API — utilize bots to broadcast real-time weather notifications to client pages/contact lists.
  

21. IBM Watson Assistant

• Feature/Setting: Webhook Integration — chatbot to broadcast or relay severe weather alerts.
  

22. Salesforce

• Feature/Setting: Process Builder/Flow — trigger automatic outbound alerts to contact records.
  

Benefits

1. Reduces communication lag, increasing lead time for preparedness.

2. Supports rapid mitigation and allocation decisions for livestock/pasture safety.

3. Enhances compliance with occupational safety and biosecurity requirements.

4. Improves client satisfaction and transparency with documented, reliable notifications.

5. Enables scalable, multi-channel coverage — ensuring messages reach all relevant parties.

6. Reduces administrative burden via centralized, hands-off workflows.