Alpine glaciers are changing rapidly and drastically, and glacier mass balance is measured at a lot of sites in the Alps. In Austria, glacier mass balance is currently monitored on 13 glaciers. However, there is still a significant latency of at least some months until the data are reported to data providers and the information of the acutal state of the glaciers is published. To reduce this data latency various systems of real-time monitoring has been developed and successfully applied. Here we present a strategy for implementing a real-time monitoring on all Austrian mass balance glaciers, by completing and expanding already existing instrumentation and data assimilation procedures.