Solar Powered Smart Weather Station

Project Title

Solar Powered Smart Weather Station

Project Area of Specialization Electrical/Electronic EngineeringProject Summary

In today’s span of modern science and innovation, weather forecasting and tracking has seen various technological evolutions due to its gigantic advantages in human's regular day to day existence[1]. These technical developments were necessary because of the challenges faced in conventional weather forecasting for instance incorrect forecasts and costly hardware. Weather forecast had assisted to take the precautionary measures against the winds, extreme high and low temperature, infections, and nuisances. A few strategies have been embraced to adapt up to these circumstances. One of the best strategical approaches is weather station.

 Weather stations measure weather information comprising of temperature, relative moistness, environmental strain, wind speed, light power, and others[2]. Weather stations are prime tools for numerous fields, such as agriculture, aviation, construction, sports and recreation, particularly on the grounds that they gather weather information, which can be put away and prepared to gather explicit data to connect occasions to weather activities. Weather tracking Devices gather data identifying with weather conditions use sensors, so the information gathered can be utilized to be investigated utilizing different models.

Project Objectives

• To design a sensor arrangement to measure the physical quantities
• To design hardware for environmental parameters data monitoring
• To design an embedded system software for hardware design.
• Interfacing WiFi module and sending data to ward Cloud system and Smart Phones
• To design an Arduino /Raspberry Pi based system to collect data from sensors and put in serial port at display.
• To design DIY Wind-speed and Direction Sensor.
• To design a software that, collects serially available data frames and do action python using tools
• To design the control system for gathering the given data and analysis the data for future predictions.

Project Implementation Method

 To achieve a working hardware for obtaining all the objectives, first a complete circuit will be designed and simulated in Proteus Software.

In second phase, the sensors for reading the environmental parameters will be interfaced with Raspberry Pi Single board computer and codes will be written for it.

In third phase, the mechanical structure will be designed for wind speed sensor, and it will also be interfaced, and programming will be done for it.

In next phase, the WIFI module will be interfaced, and data will be sent toward the Cloud system.

Then, An Android App will also be designed to read the weather station parameters locally.

Then all the parts will be combined to get a working system

Then The system will be calibrated with standard weather station, for this purpose we will get help from the Peshawar Meteorology department.

At the end a complete report in the form of thesis will be written for it.

Benefits of the Project

1. The proposed Weather stations will use solar power and battery (DC) for giving 24 hours data.
2. Our smart weather station is different because it give data on mobile app  websites , social mediae
3. “The Weather station Monitoring and its Data Science implantation”“give us the opportunities to learn more about the Hardware interfacing to Embedded controller (Arduino and other microcontroller), the
4.  Sensor study and its implementation regarding to applications in different industry
5.  Environmental Sensors study and its implementation for meterological system 
6.  Metrological system, special weather system application for different industry
7.   The basic weather station monitoring system implementation using sensors
8. The weather station data manipulating using modern tools, like Python, and its data analytic tools
9.  Using these data ( environmental sensors parameters,) for Data analysis using  artificial intelligence algorithm (AI)  about weather forecasting,
10. AIR quality information,  smart environmental  parameters achievement for industry application like Health-care, agriculture industry ,
11. Smart Transportation industry , Smart City Application,  defense application , and so on
12. Complete system will be implemented by indigenous available resources and open source tool
13. to reduce cost and software legal issues and encourage the local industry for local research and development.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

A complete hardware system will be deliverd containing the following individual hardware parts.

A bid Graphic LCD display of 3.5" 480x320 SPI Serial TFT Display Screen with Press Panel Driver IC ILI9488 for Raspberry Pi Controller

1. Humidity & Temperature Sensor DHT11/DHT22
2. Barometric Pressure BMP180/BMP280
3. Air Temperature Sensor DS18B20
4. Air Quality Sensor MQ-135
5. WindSpeed (DIY)
6. WindDirection (DIY)

Sensors: Air Parameter measuring Sensor:

1. Humidity & Temperature Sensor DHT11/DHT22
2. Barometric Pressure BMP180/BMP280
3. Air Temperature Sensor DS18B20

Light Sensors:

1. Light Sensor (LDR/TEMT6000)
2. Lighting Detector (Optional)

Earth Parameters Sensors:

1. Soil Moisture
2. Soil Temperature
3. Snow depth (Optional)
4. Earth Quack (Optional)

Environmental Noise pollution Sensor:

dB Noise Sensor

Water/Rain Sensors:

1. Rain Detector
2. Rain Gauge Bucket Sensor

Final Deliverable of the Project HW/SW integrated systemCore Industry MedicalOther Industries Education , IT , Agriculture , Food , Energy Core Technology Big DataOther Technologies Artificial Intelligence(AI), Internet of Things (IoT), Clean TechSustainable Development Goals Sustainable Cities and Communities, Climate Action, Life on LandRequired Resources

Item Name	Type	No. of Units	Per Unit Cost (in Rs)	Total (in Rs)
			Total in (Rs)	79250
Mechanical Setup of Wind Speed Sensor	Equipment	1	15000	15000
Solar Panel	Equipment	1	6500	6500
Lead-Acid Battery 100Ampere	Equipment	1	11000	11000
Charge Controller	Equipment	1	5000	5000
Temperature & Humidity Sensor Module	Equipment	2	1800	3600
PCB Design and Manufacturing	Equipment	2	7000	14000
Connecting Wires	Equipment	5	200	1000
Enclosure for hardware	Equipment	1	4000	4000
Pole for Wind Sensor	Equipment	1	6000	6000
Power Cables and Terminals	Equipment	5	450	2250
Graphic LCD Display	Equipment	1	1200	1200
A4 Size High Quality Paper Rim	Miscellaneous	2	900	1800
Stationary	Miscellaneous	1	1500	1500
Printing of Proposal and Thesis	Miscellaneous	4	500	2000
Transportation	Miscellaneous	2	1200	2400
Testing Services form Metrology Department	Miscellaneous	1	2000	2000