An invention by Brussels university VUB has made it to a Time Magazine list of the best inventions of 2025.
The invention is called MeteoSaver. In short, it uses artificial intelligence to convert old handwritten meteorological logs into digital information that can then be analysed on a computer.
“Decades-old records documenting daily precipitation and temperature were often handwritten, and MeteoSaver’s software can digitize and transcribe these records into machine-readable formats like spreadsheets alongside human scientists, speeding up the process,” Time Magazine put it succinctly.
The main researcher, Derrick Muheki, got help from the Royal Meteorological Institute (RMI) and from the University of Ghent for his new tool that makes it so much easier to digitise weather logs.
The potential for this new Belgian-developed tool to help in the fight against climate change cannot be underestimated, of course, and it’s in this context that the tool is mentioned in Time Magazine.
It was also the subject of an article in Nature, which says a lot because, like Time, it is a magazine with great authority and esteem. Clearly Muheki and the women and men of science around him are on to something here.
Unlike what happens in Vegas, what happens in Belgium goes around the world. Well done for this fantastic invention!
Source: Focus on Belgium
