BY FRANCISCO SANCHEZ CLARIÁ - SOFTWARE DEVELOPER @ TOPTAL
The goal of this project was to deliver real-time weather data to the browser at home.
The key questions and caveats involved in a project like this:
- How can I create a weather station that it is neither valuable nor attractive to a thief?
- How can I keep hardware costs and development time to the minimum?
- How can I measure and access weather data in real time and display it in a useful way?
- Required measurements: wind and wind gusts, wind direction, rain, atmospheric pressure, temperature, humidity
- Connect station to Internet
- Store and retrieve local weather data
- Communicate between weather station and server
- How can I reduce maintenance to (almost) zero?
- Manage hanging of software
- Manage loss of connectivity
- Manage loss of energy supply
For detailed information about this project follow the link.
How I Made a Fully-Functional Arduino Weather Station