Here’s an Internet of Things project that I’ve been tinkering with for a couple of months.
It’s a weather station that we’ve set up at home in Northumberland. Data from the monitoring kit is uploaded to the Internet via a PC every 15 minutes.
You can see the results at wadds.co.uk/weather or by following @WeatherProject on Twitter.
The data recording, web interface and Internet comms are managed by a shareware app called Cumulus. It also uses an algorithm to generate the weather prediction.
The Internet of Things describes a future vision whereby everyday devices are able to interoperate via the internet. In future we may use data from the weather station to control heating or cooling in the house and watering systems in the garden.
In the next couple of days we’ll start supplying data to citizen metrological projects such as Wunderground.
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