Looking for a Wifi Weather and Pollution Station
Looking for a Wireles/Wifi Weather and Pollution Station
Sensors are cool. Particularly sensor networks and motes, ways to non-intrusively gather data about the state of the environment, organisms. I want to get hands on with some sensors, but initially in a less ambitious way, with a home weather and pollution monitoring station.
I’ve looked around some, there are loads of options, Weather Underground has a good list, but it’s overwhelming with options and nothing seems spot on for what I’m after. Anyone out there with some ideas / experience with this stuff?
What I’m after
- Basic weather sensors (temp, barometer, humidity, rainfall)
- Extendable for use with pollution sensors, for air quality. And what are the options here — C02 sensors?
- Solar powered if possible and practical
- Wireless transmission to a base station, or better, direct wifi connection. We’ve ordered BT Bluephone, so we’ll have a bluetooth/wifi router — so maybe bluetooth is an option, if it’s possible for other devices to use the blutooth/IP bridge.
- Upload to server without a running computer. So the station needs to be able FTP directly using a local network.
Maybe this doesn’t exist in total, so I might need to build something together from components, which sounds fun anyway (if I possibly succeed). Urban Tapestries collaboration with Natalie Jeremijenko on Feral Robots has some guidelines on hacking environmental sensors together.