I am looking to construct and install a weather station to measure the solar irradiance, wind speed and direction, ambient air and water temperature, relative humidity in air using all the necessary sensors (if available) with a Raspberry Pi computer, also how do I develop a simple interfacing circuit to monitor and record the data as in a data logger to read the stored data in a memory using a console/monitor? Also can the entire unit including the data logging circuit with the Raspberry Pi and the weather parameters measuring sensors be kept in a weather proof cabinet outside in a desert location?
You can use the Arduino to capture sensor data and deliver it to raspberry pi, which would make your job easier. For data capture you could use a SCADA or Node-Red (use MQTT) system, so you could get the reports and monitor the data in real time.
Dear Lucas,
Thank you very much for your response, I would look into all these possibilities for building a simple, yet reliable station. I am having problems in finding the specific sensor for solar irradiance and wind speed and direction (except the anemometer type) to be used with Raspberry-pi. Do you have any suggestions or solutions to that?
Regards,
Sambit
We build our weather stations around the Arduino microcontroller boards, because we need self powered stand alone solutions:
https://thecavepearlproject.org/2015/06/15/developing-an-arduino-based-weather-station/
for details on the logger itself see: Article Cave Pearl Data Logger: A Flexible Arduino-Based Logging Pla...
(open access)Because of the many different I/O options, some Pi based builds actually use an intermediate Arduino promini board between the Pi and the sensors. Then they use an RS232 serial module to send data from the sensor node to a base station logger than can be up to 1Km away.