Prototyping low-cost automatic weather stations for natural disaster monitoring

Autor(es)

Bernardes, Gabriel F. L. R. ; Ishibashi, Rogerio ; Ivo, Andre A. S. ; Rosset, Valerio ; Kimura, Bruno Y. L.

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS; v. 9, n. 4, p. 16-pg., 2023-08-01.

Resumo

Weather events put human lives at risk mostly when people might occupy areas susceptible to natural disasters. Deploying Professional Weather Stations (PWS) in vulnerable areas is key for monitoring weather with reliable measurements. However, such professional instrumentation is notably expensive while remote sensing from a number of stations is paramount. This imposes challenges on the large-scale weather station deployment for broad monitoring from large observation networks such as in Cemaden-The Brazilian National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters. In this context, in this paper, we propose a Low-Cost Automatic Weather Station (LCAWS) system developed from Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) and open-source Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, which provides measurements as reliable as a reference PWS for natural disaster monitoring. When being automatic, LCAWS is a stand-alone photovoltaic system connected wirelessly to the Internet in order to provide real-time reliable end-to-end weather measurements. To achieve data reliability, we propose an intelligent sensor calibration method to correct measures. From a 30-day uninterrupted observation with sam-pling in minute resolution, we show that the calibrated LCAWS sensors have no statistically significant differences from the PWS measurements. As such, LCAWS has opened opportunities for reducing maintenance costs in Cemaden's observational network. (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 15/18808-0 - Tecnologias de controle de conectividade móvel definido por software para ambientes densos integrados à internet
• Beneficiário: Bruno Yuji Lino Kimura
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Regular
• Processo FAPESP: 18/23064-8 - Mobilidade na computação urbana: caracterização, modelagem e aplicações (MOBILIS)
• Beneficiário: Antonio Alfredo Ferreira Loureiro
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Temático
• Processo FAPESP: 19/23382-2 - Integrando SDNs e registros distribuídos para o aprimoramento da segurança e otimização na comunicação para aplicações de IoT
• Beneficiário: Valerio Rosset
• Modalidade de apoio: Bolsas no Exterior - Pesquisa