Fourier’s Weather Station is a sturdy, solar-powered, wireless unit for teaching Earth Science to middle school and high school students. This, easy-to-use station features 6 built-in sensors: Temperature, Humidity, Barometric Pressure, Rain Collector, Wind Speed and Wind Direction.
The weather station features a wireless data transmitter that transmits data to a receiver connected to the PC USB or serial port, with a range of 300 meters.
WeatherLab 2.5
Analyzing the data with the WeatherLab software enables students to create monthly weather reports, view real-time data, compare results with earlier data, perform functions like average, minimum, maximum and export data to spread sheets. This allows users to easily configure different types of stations by selecting different sensors.
In addition, the WeatherLab application allows students to present data in a number of different views, such as, meter, graph and table. Recorded data can also be exported to Excel for further analysis and mathematical manipulation.
Key Features
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Robust meteorological apparatus with 6 sensors
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Weather Lab�, user-friendly data analysis software
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Wireless data transmission up to 300 meters
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Solar-powered
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Carrying case for field installation
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WeatherLab 2.5 Features
WeatherLab 2.5 Key Features:
Real-time Data
- Real-time live weather data monitoring with eight simultaneous graph and meter displays – for example:
- Temperature
- Humidity
- Barometric Pressure
- Rainfall
- Wind Speed
- Wind Direction
- Option to define and display other vendor sensors
- Daily monthly, yearly rain bars
- Wind direction represented by compass rose, frequency or vector graphs
- Daily minimum and maximum temperature readings
- Dew point calculations
Archived Data
- Archive station data reports: calculating totals and averages
- Data viewing in single or multiple graph and table modes
- Analyze weather trends
- Data display tools: zoom, marker, and pan
- Print or export data to Excel
Technical Spec
Specifications
| Input | Sensors | Range | Accuracy |
| Temperature | -40 to 60ºC | ±0.2º | |
| Humidity | 0 to 100 % RH | ±1.5% | |
| Barometric Pressure | 1500 to 1150mBar | ±15mB | |
| Rain Collector | 819mm | ±0.2mm | |
| Wind Speed | 5 to 282km/h | ±5km/h | |
| Wind Direction | 0 to 360 º | ±7º | |
| Output | USB, Serial or RF connection | ||
| Sampling Rates | From 1 sample per hour to 1 sample per second | ||
| Sampling Memory | 104,000 samples | ||
| Display | 2 lines x 16 characters | ||
| Power Supply | Solar Panel + rechargeable battery or external power | ||
| Software | WeatherLab™ 2.5 | ||
| RF Transmission | Frequency: 433MHz | ||
| Range: 300m (75m indoors) | |||
| Power: 10dBm | |||
| ETS 300 – 220 compliance | |||
| Standards Compliance | CE, FCC | ||