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Communication & Data
37
- Jun 18, 2023 Line-of-Sight between gateway receiver antenna and wireless sensor calculator
- Feb 15, 2023 Wifx L1 LoRaWAN Gateway Outdoor Installation Guide
- Feb 14, 2023 How to add a Wifx L1 LoRaWAN Gateway to TTN/TTI, The Things Network v3 Stack
- Mar 24, 2022 Wind sports widget for allMETEO weather stations
- Mar 24, 2022 Airport runway wind widget for allMETEO weather stations
- Mar 27, 2021 LoRaWAN Network Solutions for Africa, USA, Canada, Mexico, Asia, Australia and South America
- Mar 10, 2021 Connect your TTN v3 application with allMETEO® weather portal
- Mar 10, 2021 How to seamlessly move devices to TTN v3 from v2
- Mar 4, 2021 Adding a Browan Femto LoRaWAN Gateway to TTI (The Things Industries) Stack
- Feb 9, 2021 LoRaWAN Downlink Commands to Change Appkey and AppEUI and Turn ADR On/Off
- Feb 8, 2021 Adding a Wifx Lorix One LoRaWAN Gateway to TTI (The Things Industries) Stack
- Feb 1, 2021 LoRaWAN MAC physical layer (PHY layer) version table
- Jan 7, 2021 4-20mA Current Loop Sensor with EasyLogGSM
- Jan 6, 2021 LoRaWAN ADR Downlink Message Calculator
- Sep 30, 2020 Lorix One LoRaWAN Gateway Outdoor Installation Guide
- Jul 30, 2020 Setting up The Things Indoor LoRaWAN Gateway in 5 minutes
- Mar 23, 2020 MeteoTemp & MeteoWind RS-485 Wire Colors and Electrical Connection
- Mar 15, 2020 Website widget for allMETEO weather stations
- Mar 6, 2020 Heated Anemometer MeteoWind 2 Wiring Connection and Heater Control
- Mar 3, 2020 Maximum RS485 Cable Length Calculator
- Feb 29, 2020 Why is Star-on-Star the Preferred Network Topology for High-Density Meteorological Sensor Networks?
- Feb 29, 2020 Building an affordable LoRaWAN network with Wifi and The Things Indoor Gateway
- Feb 29, 2020 Connecting the MeteoHelix to Wifi with The Things Indoor LoRaWAN Gateway
- Feb 28, 2020 Advantages of LoRaWAN Star-on-Star vs. LTE, GSM, NB-IoT, CAT-M1 and others
- Feb 16, 2020 Connect your Sigfox Backend to allMeteo® weather station portal
- Feb 3, 2020 Visual Guide to Creating a Weather Station on Weather Underground (WU)
- Feb 3, 2020 Forwarding weather station data to Weather Underground - Wunderground (WU)
- Jan 25, 2020 allMETEO forwarding error: Authentication failed. The country you are connecting from is not in your country list
- Jan 15, 2020 Changing the rain gauge resolution: decoding the MeteoHelix® message format
- Jan 13, 2020 Difference between cumulative and event based rain display on allMeteo.com portal
- Jan 13, 2020 Change rain gauge resolution and rain display settings for the MeteoHelix® personal weather station
- Nov 15, 2019 Does the allMETEO forwarder offer an API and HTTP forwarding in addition to FTP?
- May 1, 2019 List of available downlink commands for MeteoHelix LoRaWAN weather stations
- Apr 28, 2019 How does MeteoHelix handle time synchronization
- Apr 6, 2019 Connecting the MeteoHelix weather station to LoRaWAN wireless networks
- Mar 23, 2019 Simple tips to maximize your LoRaWAN and Sigfox weather station signal strength in the country
- Mar 21, 2019 Sigfox and LoRaWAN compared to GPRS/GSM/GPRS/LTE/NB-IoT in weather stations
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LoRaWAN Connectivity
37
- Jun 18, 2023 Line-of-Sight between gateway receiver antenna and wireless sensor calculator
- Feb 15, 2023 Wifx L1 LoRaWAN Gateway Outdoor Installation Guide
- Feb 14, 2023 How to add a Wifx L1 LoRaWAN Gateway to TTN/TTI, The Things Network v3 Stack
- Mar 27, 2021 LoRaWAN Network Solutions for Africa, USA, Canada, Mexico, Asia, Australia and South America
- Mar 10, 2021 Connect your TTN v3 application with allMETEO® weather portal
- Mar 10, 2021 How to seamlessly move devices to TTN v3 from v2
- Mar 4, 2021 Adding a Browan Femto LoRaWAN Gateway to TTI (The Things Industries) Stack
- Feb 9, 2021 LoRaWAN Downlink Commands to Change Appkey and AppEUI and Turn ADR On/Off
- Feb 8, 2021 Adding a Wifx Lorix One LoRaWAN Gateway to TTI (The Things Industries) Stack
- Feb 1, 2021 LoRaWAN MAC physical layer (PHY layer) version table
- Jan 6, 2021 LoRaWAN ADR Downlink Message Calculator
- Nov 4, 2020 What is the difference between METAR and AUTO-METAR?
- Sep 30, 2020 Lorix One LoRaWAN Gateway Outdoor Installation Guide
- Jul 30, 2020 Setting up The Things Indoor LoRaWAN Gateway in 5 minutes
- Feb 29, 2020 Why is Star-on-Star the Preferred Network Topology for High-Density Meteorological Sensor Networks?
- Feb 29, 2020 Building an affordable LoRaWAN network with Wifi and The Things Indoor Gateway
- Feb 29, 2020 Connecting the MeteoHelix to Wifi with The Things Indoor LoRaWAN Gateway
- Feb 28, 2020 Advantages of LoRaWAN Star-on-Star vs. LTE, GSM, NB-IoT, CAT-M1 and others
- Feb 18, 2020 HTTP forwarding from Chirpstack LoRaWAN® Network Server to allMeteo®
- Jan 17, 2020 HTTP forwarding from a LORIOT application to the allMeteo® platform
- Jan 17, 2020 HTTP forwarding data from a LoRaServer application to allMeteo®
- Jan 11, 2020 Connecting TTN v2 LoRaWAN application with allMeteo® weather data platform
- Nov 15, 2019 Does the allMETEO forwarder offer an API and HTTP forwarding in addition to FTP?
- May 31, 2019 MeteoHelix weather station LoRaWAN message format
- May 29, 2019 MeteoWind Compact IoT wireless wind sensor LoRaWAN message format
- May 26, 2019 MeteoRain wireless rain gauge LoRaWAN message format
- May 1, 2019 List of available downlink commands for MeteoHelix LoRaWAN weather stations
- Apr 29, 2019 LoRaWAN network specific devices are the norm for New Zealand and Australia
- Apr 23, 2019 LoRaWAN USA frequencies, channels and sub-bands for IoT devices
- Apr 22, 2019 Device not connecting to my LoRaWAN gateway when others are connected
- Apr 21, 2019 Setting up the Laird Sentrius LoRaWAN gateway and The Things Network (TTN) with the BARANI DESIGN MeteoHelix weather station
- Apr 8, 2019 Time synchronization setup of a MeteoHelix LoRaWAN weather station on TTN
- Apr 6, 2019 Connecting the MeteoHelix weather station to LoRaWAN wireless networks
- Apr 2, 2019 Can IoT weather stations send data every 10 minutes and comply with wireless regulations
- Mar 23, 2019 Simple tips to maximize your LoRaWAN and Sigfox weather station signal strength in the city
- Mar 23, 2019 Simple tips to maximize your LoRaWAN and Sigfox weather station signal strength in the country
- Mar 21, 2019 Sigfox and LoRaWAN compared to GPRS/GSM/GPRS/LTE/NB-IoT in weather stations
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Maintenance, Installation
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- Jun 18, 2023 Line-of-Sight between gateway receiver antenna and wireless sensor calculator
- Feb 14, 2023 How to create a remote service connection to the Wifx L1 LoRaWAN gateway?
- Feb 14, 2023 How to add a Wifx L1 LoRaWAN Gateway to TTN/TTI, The Things Network v3 Stack
- Jul 29, 2022 How to properly mount an Ecowitt Temp & Humidity Sensor inside the MeteoShield Pro?
- Jul 25, 2022 How to test an air temperature sensor’s response time?
- Jun 6, 2022 How to design a solar radiation shield for weather station temperature sensors?
- Mar 28, 2022 How to Connect MeteoRain 200 Compact Rain Gauge to any Weather Station
- Jan 28, 2022 How to turn ON & OFF the MeteoRain IoT Compact wireless rain gauge?
- Jan 28, 2022 How to turn ON & OFF the MeteoWind IoT Pro wireless wind sensor?
- Jan 18, 2022 How to turn ON & OFF the MeteoHelix weather station?
- Nov 26, 2021 How to fix a cut or damaged weather station sensor cable?
- Mar 4, 2021 Adding a Browan Femto LoRaWAN Gateway to TTI (The Things Industries) Stack
- Feb 8, 2021 Adding a Wifx Lorix One LoRaWAN Gateway to TTI (The Things Industries) Stack
- May 7, 2020 How co connect a rain gauge cable to the SEB200 and SEB50 rain gauge?
- Mar 23, 2020 MeteoTemp & MeteoWind RS-485 Wire Colors and Electrical Connection
- Mar 15, 2020 Website widget for allMETEO weather stations
- Mar 6, 2020 Heated Anemometer MeteoWind 2 Wiring Connection and Heater Control
- Mar 1, 2020 Lightning and Wind vs. Weather Sensors
- Feb 29, 2020 Why is Star-on-Star the Preferred Network Topology for High-Density Meteorological Sensor Networks?
- Jan 24, 2020 Does the Rotronic MP100, MP400 and HydroClip2 HC2 meteorological probe fit into the MeteoShield Professional?
- Jan 21, 2020 Rime Icing and Hoar Frost Damage to Anemometers and Meteorological Instruments
- Jan 13, 2020 Difference between cumulative and event based rain display on allMeteo.com portal
- Jan 13, 2020 Change rain gauge resolution and rain display settings for the MeteoHelix® personal weather station
- Sep 9, 2019 How to assemble a MeteoShield® Professional by BARANI DESIGN Technologies
- Sep 7, 2019 How to connect RainWise rain gauges to MeteoHelix personal weather stations
- Sep 3, 2019 How to connect Davis rain gauges to MeteoHelix personal weather stations
- Aug 9, 2019 How to does an air temperature sensor response time vary with wind speed?
- Jul 17, 2019 Vaisala HMP155 with an Additional Temperature Probe fits into the MeteoShield Pro with the dual-clamp mount.
- Jul 15, 2019 Does the Vaisala HMP155 meteorological probe fit into the MeteoShield Professional?
- Jul 11, 2019 How high to mount the sensor inside a MeteoShield® Professional?
- Jun 22, 2019 How tough is the helical radiation shield?
- Jun 21, 2019 How to correctly mount the MeteoShield and dismount for maintenance?
- Jun 21, 2019 How to correctly mount the Top-Mount version of the MeteoShield?
- Jun 21, 2019 What size meteorological sensor probes can we mount into the MeteoShield Professional?
- May 28, 2019 What service is required for MeteoTemp meteorological sensors?
- May 24, 2019 What service is required for MeteoWind anemometers and how often?
- May 22, 2019 How do I tell if my anemometer bearing needs replacing
- May 20, 2019 How to Replace the Cups on a MeteoWind 2 Anemometer
- May 13, 2019 Total weather station solution - Wind, Rain, Temperature, Humidity and Pressure
- Apr 5, 2019 Upgrading Davis Vantage Pro with a helical MeteoShield Pro for improved response and temperature accuracy
- Apr 1, 2019 How to mount a MeteoHelix IoT Pro weather station or MeteoShield?
- Mar 28, 2019 What hardware is required to install an agricultural weather station?
- Mar 20, 2019 Correct and wrong way to mount your weather station
- Mar 20, 2019 What is the lifetime of a humidity sensor and service/replacement interval.
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Sigfox Connectivity
12
- Jun 18, 2023 Line-of-Sight between gateway receiver antenna and wireless sensor calculator
- Feb 16, 2020 Connect your Sigfox Backend to allMeteo® weather station portal
- Nov 15, 2019 Does the allMETEO forwarder offer an API and HTTP forwarding in addition to FTP?
- May 31, 2019 MeteoHelix weather station LoRaWAN message format
- May 15, 2019 MeteoWind Compact IoT wireless wind sensor Sigfox message format
- May 15, 2019 MeteoRain wireless rain gauge Sigfox message format
- May 15, 2019 MeteoHelix weather station Sigfox message format
- Apr 8, 2019 Sigfox Country Frequencies (RC1, RC2, RC3, RC4)
- Apr 6, 2019 Time synchronization setup of the MeteoHelix Sigfox weather station
- Apr 2, 2019 Can IoT weather stations send data every 10 minutes and comply with wireless regulations
- Mar 23, 2019 Simple tips to maximize your LoRaWAN and Sigfox weather station signal strength in the city
- Mar 21, 2019 Sigfox and LoRaWAN compared to GPRS/GSM/GPRS/LTE/NB-IoT in weather stations
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Weather Monitoring
38
- Jul 28, 2022 How to properly perform solar radiation shield comparisons for weather stations
- Jul 25, 2022 How to test an air temperature sensor’s response time?
- Jun 6, 2022 How to design a solar radiation shield for weather station temperature sensors?
- Mar 24, 2022 Wind sports widget for allMETEO weather stations
- Mar 24, 2022 Airport runway wind widget for allMETEO weather stations
- Jan 9, 2021 Raindrop Shape & Size Calculator: How Much Rain is in Each Rain Drop?
- Jan 7, 2021 4-20mA Current Loop Sensor with EasyLogGSM
- Jan 2, 2021 Geopotential Height Calculator for use in Meteorology and Aviation
- Nov 4, 2020 What is the difference between METAR and AUTO-METAR?
- Aug 10, 2020 Can MeteoTemp sensor work on 24V?
- Apr 2, 2020 How much more accurate is MeteoShield Pro over Davis FARS fan-ventilated screen?
- Mar 18, 2020 What is the WMO Requirement for Data Reporting Time Interval of Weather Stations?
- Mar 6, 2020 Heated Anemometer MeteoWind 2 Wiring Connection and Heater Control
- Mar 3, 2020 Mean Sea Level Pressure Calculator (Converter) – Advanced Formula
- Mar 2, 2020 Elliptical Anemometer Advantage
- Mar 2, 2020 Wind Speed & Barometric Pressure
- Mar 1, 2020 Wind Influence on Reliable Weather Forecasts
- Mar 1, 2020 Air Density Changes Due to Weather
- Feb 26, 2020 Rain gauge sizes and diameters
- Feb 18, 2020 All You Ever Wanted to Know About Choosing a Rain Gauge
- Jan 22, 2020 Rain Gauge Accuracy Tables
- Jan 21, 2020 Rime Icing and Hoar Frost Damage to Anemometers and Meteorological Instruments
- Jan 20, 2020 Rain gauge accuracy and WMO/NWS standards
- Jan 20, 2020 Guide to rain gauges: types, sizes, benefits and drawbacks
- Jan 19, 2020 Rain rate intensity classification
- Jan 19, 2020 Practical guide to determining Rainfall Rate and Rain Intensity Error
- Jan 19, 2020 Rain drop size and speed of a falling rain drop
- Aug 9, 2019 How to does an air temperature sensor response time vary with wind speed?
- Aug 1, 2019 Sensor and Radiation Shield Comparison Calculator for Temperature Error
- Jul 26, 2019 Correcting measurement errors of Vaisala HMP155 meteorological probe heater
- Jul 18, 2019 How does MeteoHelix handle atmospheric pressure measurement and AMSL calculation?
- Jul 1, 2019 The difference between sensor error and uncertainty
- Jun 30, 2019 What is the maximum acceptable air temperature error in meteorology and climate monitoring?
- May 13, 2019 Total weather station solution - Wind, Rain, Temperature, Humidity and Pressure
- May 7, 2019 Difference between sensor response time and sensor time constant τ (tau) 63.2%.
- May 5, 2019 The overlooked truth about air temperature measurement error (Influence of sensor response time)
- Mar 24, 2019 Why is the MeteoHelix weather station unique for Smart-City applications
- Mar 20, 2019 Differences in recording minimum and maximum temperatures with the MeteoHelix and Davis weather stations
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Software
10
- Mar 24, 2022 Wind sports widget for allMETEO weather stations
- Mar 24, 2022 Airport runway wind widget for allMETEO weather stations
- Feb 1, 2021 LoRaWAN MAC physical layer (PHY layer) version table
- Jan 7, 2021 4-20mA Current Loop Sensor with EasyLogGSM
- Mar 15, 2020 Website widget for allMETEO weather stations
- Jan 18, 2020 Changing sampling time in Easy MODBUS Viewer
- Jan 13, 2020 Difference between cumulative and event based rain display on allMeteo.com portal
- Jan 13, 2020 Change rain gauge resolution and rain display settings for the MeteoHelix® personal weather station
- Apr 18, 2019 MeteoHelix Weather Station Map Icons
- Mar 20, 2019 An easy way to log data from multiple MODBUS parameters.
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Knowledge base
4
- Jul 2, 2021 Visual Guide to Interpreting Leaf Wetness Sensor Readings
- Jan 9, 2021 Raindrop Shape & Size Calculator: How Much Rain is in Each Rain Drop?
- Apr 2, 2020 Anemometer & Weather Station Placement Guide
- Mar 15, 2020 Air Density Calculator
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Smart Agriculture
5
- Jul 2, 2021 Visual Guide to Interpreting Leaf Wetness Sensor Readings
- Mar 27, 2021 LoRaWAN Network Solutions for Africa, USA, Canada, Mexico, Asia, Australia and South America
- Mar 10, 2021 How to seamlessly move devices to TTN v3 from v2
- Feb 9, 2021 LoRaWAN Downlink Commands to Change Appkey and AppEUI and Turn ADR On/Off
- Feb 1, 2021 How to Prepare and Condition Watermark 200SS Soil Water Tension Sensors
- Testimonials/Reviews 1
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Articles from BARANI.biz
20
- Apr 2, 2020 Anemometer & Weather Station Placement Guide
- Mar 15, 2020 Air Density Calculator
- Mar 6, 2020 What Impact Energy from Hail Stone should Meteorological Instruments be able to Survive?
- Mar 4, 2020 Wind Turbine Comparison Calculator
- Mar 3, 2020 Maximum RS485 Cable Length Calculator
- Mar 3, 2020 Mean Sea Level Pressure Calculator (Converter) – Advanced Formula
- Mar 3, 2020 Calculate the Value of the Sunny Day (Solar Panel Calculator)
- Mar 2, 2020 Elliptical Anemometer Advantage
- Mar 2, 2020 Can I Trust My Sensor?
- Mar 2, 2020 Wind Measurement Error and Financial Impact
- Mar 2, 2020 The Real Cost of Wind Energy Predictions
- Mar 2, 2020 10 Costliest Wind Energy Prediction Mistakes
- Mar 2, 2020 Wind Maps or Pretty Pictures
- Mar 2, 2020 It’s Not All About Wind Measurement Accuracy
- Mar 2, 2020 Advantages and Disadvantages of Wind Power
- Mar 2, 2020 How Rain Forms
- Mar 2, 2020 Wind Speed & Barometric Pressure
- Mar 1, 2020 Wind Influence on Reliable Weather Forecasts
- Mar 1, 2020 Lightning and Wind vs. Weather Sensors
- Mar 1, 2020 Air Density Changes Due to Weather
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Wind Resource Assessment
20
- Mar 6, 2020 Heated Anemometer MeteoWind 2 Wiring Connection and Heater Control
- Mar 4, 2020 Wind Turbine Comparison Calculator
- Mar 2, 2020 Elliptical Anemometer Advantage
- Mar 2, 2020 Wind Measurement Error and Financial Impact
- Mar 2, 2020 The Real Cost of Wind Energy Predictions
- Mar 2, 2020 10 Costliest Wind Energy Prediction Mistakes
- Mar 2, 2020 Wind Maps or Pretty Pictures
- Mar 2, 2020 It’s Not All About Wind Measurement Accuracy
- Mar 2, 2020 Advantages and Disadvantages of Wind Power
- Mar 1, 2020 Air Density Changes Due to Weather
- Jan 21, 2020 Rime Icing and Hoar Frost Damage to Anemometers and Meteorological Instruments
- Aug 12, 2019 MeteoWind 2 advantages to compared with other MEASNET classified anemometers
- Aug 11, 2019 Anemometer performance requirements for wind resource assessment per IEC 61400-12-1 Ed. 2.0 2017-3
- Apr 2, 2019 Does MeteoWind conform to IEC 61400-12-1 MEASNET wind resource assessment requirements?
- Apr 2, 2019 Evaluation of MeteoWind sensors to compared to NRG and Thies 1st Class anemometer and wind vane?
- Apr 2, 2019 Is Cloud Based Monitoring software supplied for wind monitoring with MeteoWind sensors?
- Apr 2, 2019 Can the MeteoWind wind sensors be mounted on all existing Towers?
- Apr 2, 2019 What cable lengths are available for MeteoWind anemometers and wind vanes?
- Apr 2, 2019 How does MeteoWind sensor configuration compare to the IEC 61400-12-1 requirement?
- Apr 2, 2019 Does MeteoWind 2-in-1 wind speed & direction sensor satisfy the sensor separation requirement on wind resource assessment towers?