Weather stations
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; wireless sensors are of little interest to us since wire in this app is not inconvenient and the wireless sensors could interfere with our primary operation, providing wireless networks.
Consumer grade
Individual sensors
* Anemometer: $120
* Rain bucket $75
* Solar radiation: $160
Kestrel makes handheld instruments
Peet Bros Inc. Jim (CG Ret) says "don't" :-)
Rainwise Wireless sensor head + serial/modem computer interface
Wired rain gauge $73
Research grade
Columbia Weather Systems $5000 and up
Global Water Instrumentation ($4000 or so)
Onset sells kits for about $1800 (Onset makes Hobo data loggers).
