Rainfall intensity datalogger system. Lopy4-based design and implementation

Abstract

© 2019 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to ACM. The data record of the amount of rain is important for the monitoring and control of watersheds for water and soil conservation. Even more important is to be able to keep this information as up-to-date with a short latency and low cost. This article presents the design and implementation of a rainfall intensity data recording system based on the LoPy4 development board. This implementation integrates the acquisition, storage and wirelessly transmission of the data. There is a data recording system (Station Node) and a transmission forwarding system (Gateway node). In this way, a Wireless Sensors Network (WSN) architecture is achieved by using LoRa technology. This technology offers long range and low energy consumption. The results indicate a strong correlation of the data acquired by the system designed in this article and the data recorded by the reference DAVIS station.