Remote Monitoring System of Automatic Rain Gauges using Machine-to-Machine application

摘要

This article describe the development of a prototype of an automatic system that is able to acquire, process and store the amount of min precipitated. Using an automatic rain gauge of high precision and low cost, it has been made, from March to November 2013, a descriptive research with application component supported by field tests. As a result it was constructed a double tipping bucket rain gauge with data acquisition system employing an Arduino module and a GSM/ GPRS shield. This ensemble sends data to a control center, which runs an application, developed on Labview platform. This application has the ability to display data in real time and store it in a database in the direction of record historical thereof. It is concluded that the implementation of the proposed system can contribute to automate the process of acquisition, processing and storage of rainfall data so that they can be used as needed. It is recommended to use the same system to monitor different meteorological variables.