Design and implementation of a remotely monitored weather station

• Main Authors: Gimena, Rowella Zosima A., Narvadez, Christine Anne A.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2018
• Subjects: Meteorological stations > Design; Electrical and Electronics; Systems and Communications
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/14852
• Institution: De La Salle University

A weather station is a device that observes atmospheric conditions using instruments and equipment to supply information for weather forecasts and research. The purpose of the Weather Station is to provide accurate weather conditions that can be monitored using the Internet, as well as informing the public of the existent weather condition and when heavy rainfall rate is detected through social media. In order to design and implement the weather station system, the location, the calibration, and sensors specifications are taken into considerations. A small solar panel was utilized for generating electricity to produce enough power source for each of the sensor in the weather station. An alarm was also executed to notify when there is rainfall rate present in the environment and the data will be sent to a web-based online database for the weather data to be automatically broadcast online.The accuracy level of the measured weather parameters and the reliability of the system depends on the location, sensor capacity and network connection. Test results show that the system was able to achieve 95% accuracy compared with the Celestron Weather Station and AccuWeather. However, the rainfall rate and wind speed has an average of accuracy percentage below 90% when compared to AccuWeather.The overall integration of the weather station consists of the hardware (sensors, transmitter and receiver) and software (transmission algorithm, database and social media) which was implemented successfully in this study to deploy a remotely monitored weather station.