Arduino-based Remotely Accessed Weather Monitoring Station

A weather station is a device that observes atmospheric conditions using instruments and equipment to supply information for weather forecasts and researches. Commercially available weather stations are stationary and can only be accessed on its location. This study designed and implemented a weather monitoring station that can provide real-time weather conditions to the public, which can be accessed online through different social media platforms. The system is composed of four sensors, Arduino board, transceiver, and ethernet shield, which can work altogether to produce an accurate weather data. A solar panel was utilized for generating electricity to produce enough power source for each of the sensors in the weather station. An alarm was also supplemented to notify when rainfall is detected in the environment and the data will be sent to a web-based database for automatic online broadcast. We have compared our results to the data from AccuWeather and Celestron, and found the data from our system to be precise.