Weather Station Power Systems Application
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Weather stations can be stand-alone systems, or part of a larger network of systems monitoring weather and environment. For remote locations, solar is an ideal power solution. Solarcraft integrated solar power systems house the instruments and communication electronics. The enclosure is ready to mount to a Rohn™ tower, which accommodates the measurement devices and antenna.
Case Study
Solarcraft integrated solar power systems are utilized as part of the Oklahoma Mesonet.
The Oklahoma Mesonet is a world-class network of environmental monitoring stations. The network was designed and implemented by scientists at the University of Oklahoma (OU) and at Oklahoma State University (OSU).
The Oklahoma Mesonet consists of over 110 automated stations covering Oklahoma. There is at least one Mesonet station in each of Oklahoma's 77 counties.
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At each site, the environment is measured by a set of instruments located on or near a 10-meter-tall tower. The measurements are packaged into "observations" every 5 minutes, then the observations are transmitted to a central facility every 5 minutes, 24 hours per day year-round.
The Oklahoma Climatological Survey (OCS) at OU receives the observations, verifies the quality of the data and provides the data to Mesonet customers. It only takes 5 to 10 minutes from the time the measurements are acquired until they become available to the public. For more information on the OK Mesonet, go to http://okmesonet.ocs.ou.edu/overview/.
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