Raspberry Pi and Arduino Uno Working together as a Basic Meteorological Station

TL;DR

This paper presents a cost-effective meteorological station using Raspberry Pi and Arduino Uno, capable of measuring various weather parameters, transmitting data via USB, and displaying real-time information on a web page with logging features.

Contribution

It introduces a novel integrated architecture combining Raspberry Pi and Arduino Uno for weather sensing, enabling extensive sensor integration and web-based data visualization.

Findings

Supports multiple sensors for weather measurement

Data is updated every five minutes on the web page

Stores data logs for future analysis

Abstract

The present paper describes a novel Raspberry Pi and Arduino UNO architecture used as a meteorological station. One of the advantages of the proposed architecture is the huge quantity of sensors developed for its usage; practically one can find them for any application, and weather sensing is not an exception. The principle followed is to configure Raspberry as a collector for measures obtained from Arduino, transmitting occurs via USB; meanwhile, Raspberry broadcasts them via a web page. For such activity is possible thanks to Raspbian, a Linux-based operating system. It has a lot of libraries and resources available, among them Apache Web Server, that gives the possibility to host a web-page. On it, the user can observe temperature, humidity, solar radiance, and wind speed and direction. Information on the web-page is refreshed each five minute; however, measurements arrive at Raspberry every ten seconds. This low refreshment rate was determined because weather variables normally do not abruptly change. As an additional feature, system stores all information on the log file, this gives the possibility for future analysis and processing.