Weather stations

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We want to assemble a weatherstation that can talk TCP/IP for deployment on Canopy network. So far what I have found are consumer grade weather stations with sensors either directly wired or wireless that talk to a base. Sometimes they refer to these as "professional grade".

The bases generally have cool LCD displays and if anything, a serial port to send data in a proprietary format to proprietary software running on a Windows machine.

These companies sell the sensors independently; the wireless sensors are of little interest to us since wire in this app is not inconvenient and is more reliable.

Davis Weather Instruments

I have worked with Davis sensors in the past so I know they are high quality.

Individual sensors
Anemomenter: $120
Rain bucket $75
Solar radiation: $160

Lacrosse

Oregon Scientific

Rainwise Wireless sensor head + serial/modem computer interface

Texas Weather