This bachelor's thesis was focused on the design and construction from scratch of a high-precision electronic pluviograph for the Fabra Observatory, in Barcelona.
It's an instrument for measuring the amount of water that has fallen (i.e. a rain gauge), with a feature to register the data in real time to demonstrate rainfall over a short period of time.
This recording rain gauges will be used for the analysis of the atmospheric precipitations recording continuously the rain, the accumulated total amount and duration of rainfall.
All this data gathered is be send to a web server and then stored into a database. This information shall be visualized as an interactive graphic using HighCharts library.
In order to test de implementation, a simple prototype of the rainwater collector equipment was created
List of the components used for the rainwater collector equipment:
- Arduino Mega
- High precision scales x2
- RS-232 to TTL converters x2
- Servomotors x2
- WiFi module ESP8266-ESP01
- External power supply (5V)
git clone https://github.com/Nerconer/pluviograph.git
Modify settings inside initialize() methods.