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Low-cost Wireless Personal Weather Station for Rural Farmers
1André Rodrigue Tchamda, 2 Merlain Boris Djousse K., 3Anselme Maffo Koumetio, 4 Mathias Fru Fonteh, 5François Becau Pelap, 6Robert Tchitnga, 7Martin Kom
1,2,4Department of Agricultural Engineering, Faculty of Agronomy and Agricultural Sciences, University of Dschang, Cameroon;
3Program for the consolidation and sustainability of agropastoral counselling, Cameroon;
5,6Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Dschang, Cameroon
7Department of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunication, Polytechnic, University of Yaounde I,
Cameroon
ABSTRACT
This document presents the design of a prototype of a low-cost personal weather station suitable for farmers in rural areas who are or may not be engaged in rudimentary agriculture. This prototype measures several weather data: temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, wind direction, rainfall. For further data analysis, these are transmitted for recording to a remote server via wireless communication. The server offers data extraction possibilities in multiple file formats. A prototyping of the personal weather station is designed and commissioned. An extract of the results over two days is presented in the results section of this document.
Keywords: Microcontroller; Weather Station; Server; Rural Area; Farmer.
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