Project of the month: SnowMeter
Readers who enjoy skiing know how it’s difficult to trust reports given by tourism offices: Is the weather as beautiful as announced? Is this great snow level at the top of the station real?
That’s why I’ve launched this project: SnowMeter, a two-part weather measurement tool, putting real infos on a web page, through a wireless system.
The first part is the measurement tool itself and a wireless transceiver. It includes in a hollow broomstick a system which evaluates the snow level thanks to a measure of the leakage current of a conductor wire glued on the exterior surface. This part includes a small little solar panel providing it an autonomous energy source. The on-board processor will be certainly a low-energy consumption MAXIM processor, which be awaken by a wireless ask coming from the second part. Of course, a system will be added to alert us if the beacon is under too much snow… It will also measure external temperature, sun exposure, wind speed & direction, and pressure.
The second part is a wireless transceiver linked to Internet. This part will be localised in a flat, in a voluntary pub, shop, etc. Its mission is to wake up one by one each beacon, to receive data, and then generating a web page containing measures content.
I’ve already began the project. I’ll put it on GitHub ASAP. Enrol yourself!