Internet enabled tipping bucket rain gauge

Author

Raghava, Tarun Karuturi Venkata ; Wani, Suhas Pralhad

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Birla Inst. of Technol., Ranchi, India

fYear

2014

fDate

3-5 Jan. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The tipping bucket rain gauge is one of the most widely used apparatus for measuring rainfall. Data loggers connected to these rain gauges keep count of the amount of rainfall being received and store it in their internal memory until it´s collected. Internet-enabled loggers present currently in the market are very limited and extremely expensive. This paper presents a cheap and efficient tipping bucket rain gauge with an internet enabled data logger. The data logger posts the rainfall data to a SQL database located on our server through a microcontroller which has been interfaced with a GSM/GPRS module. This data is posted automatically to the server after every rainfall or once after every 24 hours even if there is no rainfall, along with temperature and humidity data obtained from the respective sensors interfaced to the microcontroller.

Keywords

Internet; SQL; cellular radio; data loggers; environmental science computing; meteorological instruments; microcontrollers; rain; sensors; GPRS module; GSM module; Internet enabled tipping bucket rain gauge; Internet-enabled loggers; SQL database; data loggers; humidity data; microcontroller; rainfall data; rainfall measurement; sensors; temperature data; Databases; GSM; Ground penetrating radar; Internet; Microcontrollers; Rain; Temperature sensors; Embedded Systems; GSM Module; Microcontroller; TCP/IP; Tipping Bucket Rain gauge;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Communication and Informatics (ICCCI), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Coimbatore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2353-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCI.2014.6921828

Filename

6921828