Sigfox IP65 micro-Gateway with MeteoHelix® IoT Pro solution for professional meteorological and agricultural applications

New product spotlight at the Meteo Expo 2019 in Gevena Switzerland

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Sigfox Micro installation at a remote cattle ranch for cattle tracking and MeteoHelix® weather station data. (Photo by Andrej Dobak of SIMPLECELL NETWORKS SLOVAKIA, A.S..)

BARANI DESIGN Technologies in cooperation with HELIOT SA, the Sigfox wireless network operator in Switzerland and Austria will showcase a professional meteorological wireless solution designed for areas with limited or non-existent GSM/LTE coverage. This low-bandwidth wireless meteorological system requires very low data rates as typical of mountainous regions and rural or outback locations. These remote locations where meteorological data are scarce are also critical for accurate weather prediction for nearby population centers and are currently only serviced by costly satellite data. Thanks to Sigfox and HELIOT SA, remote wireless coverage for meteorological data will now be available for a few hundred dollars wherever GSM/LTE or Wifi is not available.

Outdoor wireless Sigfox IoT gateway with 10+ km wireless range:

• Sigfox Access Station Micro, an affordable micro-gateway for extending existing Sigfox wireless coverage is available from HELIOT SA of Switzerland and Austria.

MeteoHelix® Sigfox weather station in the outback hills

WMO conforming IoT micro-weather station:

• MeteoHelix® IoT Pro weather station for professional meteorology and precision agriculture by BARANI DESIGN Technologies of Slovakia.

For more information, please contact HELIOT SA or BARANI DESIGN Technologies.

MeteoHelix® weather stations installed to monitor new frost protection technology experiment in famous Vienna Wine School

Bundesamt für Obst- und Weinbau in Klosterneuburg

Three MeteoHelix® micro-weather stations were installed to monitor new technology experiment to help prevent frost on budding wine grape plans at the renowned Hö­he­re Bun­des­lehr­an­stalt viticulture school in Klosterneuburg near Vienna, Austria. These precision weather stations are powered by the sun and connected to the Sensor Network Services GmbH LoRaWAN wireless network to provide critical real-time information to help evaluate the success of this new technology. Differentiated by their helical shape, they are able to provide world class measurements for a fraction of the cost of comparable accuracy meteorological technologies.

The variability of weather over the recent decade has caused grape wine damage in the millions of euros each year due to frost. This experiment is very significant due to the fact that it sits within a vast wine region stretching for hundreds of kilometers from the Tokaj of southern Slovakia and northern Hungary to the southern Moravia region of the Czech republic and all the way to the Vienna region known for its wine schools and superb white wine production.

MeteoHelix® weather stations monitoring ground frost in precision viticulture at the Hö­he­re Bun­des­lehr­an­stalt school in Klosterneuburg near Vienna, Austria

Africa and the Internet of Things Revolution

Many meteorological networks in Africa are not recording accurate data. However, accuracy can be improved and maintenance costs reduced with the application of new IoT technologies. This can lead to positive impacts on agricultural output and disaster prevention.

Find out more in “Join the IoT Revolution” article on page 43 of the Hydromet AFRICA ExpoGuide as published by Varysian.

Read practical know-how based on the 10+ years of experience in the meteorological industry of Jan Barani, who is the designer of the MeteoHelix® IoT Pro micro-weather stations.

Find out what is the ideal IoT weather station for a meteorological network

• Would an ideal low-cost WMO-compliant weather station look like the MeteoHelix®?

• Can network service and maintenance be optimized with measurement traceability in mind?

Find out what is a vandalism-tolerant meteorological network

• Is a high-density meteorological network based on affordable micro weather stations inherently vandalism-proof

• How does higher data density affect vandalism tolerance?

• Can redundancy be affordably created using IoT technologies while increasing network reliability

• Does a micro weather station designed to prevent data access to thieves and with minimal resale or recyclable material value already exist?

“Join the IoT Revolution” article taken from the Hydromet AFRICA ExpoGuide as published by Varysian.