Weather Station Report

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Weather Station Report Table of Contents ABSTRACT 3 1.0 Introduction 3 2.0 Experiment Design 9 2.1 Materials 10 2.2 Procedure 10 3.0 RESULTS & DISCUSSION 11 3.1 Tables 12 3.2 Graphs 15 4.0 ANALYSIS 16 5.0 Conclusions and Recommendations 18 REFERENCES 19 APPENDIX 19 * ABSTRACT: The Weather Station project is a combination of different functional sensors that detect changes in the environment using a Labview software and a Data acquisition system (DAQ) hardware. The objective of these deployment of sensors are to measure the weather parameters respectively. This experiment is done by using 3 weather sensors including a simple graphical user interface (GUI). Throughout the experiment, there will be some changes in parameters such as temperature drop, humidity and light intensity. In order to measure the parameters accurately, hence sensors are used. There are mechanical, digital and analog sensors, which convert a physical quantity to electrical signals to be read by computer. DAQ is the vital component of the weather station and it will be installed in the computer. This enables the output to be read directly from the computer. The sensors used in this weather station are of: (a) Thermistor LM 335 Z (b) Light Dependent Resistance (LDR) VT90N2 (c) Humidity sensor HCH-1000-001 * 1.0 Introduction Weather monitoring plays an important part in forecasting climate changes, weather patterns and natural disaster. In-order to accurately measure weather parameters, a weather station is usually placed in many locations to continuously measure temperature, sun intensity, wind speed & directions, humidity, and rainfall. These stations contain data acquisition system that allows remote monitoring, reporting and alerts. A sensor is a device which receives and responds to a signal. A sensor's sensitivity indicates how
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