ARDWEATHER: UMA ESTAÇÃO METEOROLÓGICA BASEADA NO ARDUINO E EM WEB SERVICES RESTFUL

Abstract

Weather stations are equipment used for weather and climate characterization. Areas such as Agriculture and Civil Defense require daily climate information more specific than those provided by TV programs. However, professional weather stations usually have high cost and complexity of operation, which restricts its use. This paper presents the ArdWeather, an integrated hardware and software system composed by a low cost weather station and a web application. The station uses an Arduino board equipped with sensors to measure the temperature, relative humidity, barometric pressure, wind speed, luminance and rain precipitation. The web application can display the data measured, send alerts via Twitter and manage similar weather stations. The features of the application were developed like RESTful Web Services, enabling other applications to integrate to the system.

Index Terms - Arduino, Meteorology, RESTful Web Services, Weather Station.