We have upgraded the design of Weather Station Shield (especially resolved the power issue), you can follow it here:
Weather Station with new shield was redeployed on 2019-07-26T18:30:00Z and it was working fine there was no shut down observed up to 2019-08-03T18:30:00Z and it was continuously streaming weather data on our server.
But Streaming weather data suddenly stopped from 2019-08-04T18:30:00Z.
We checked out our server, but everything was fine on server side. Now there was a need to get onto the site of weather station, we went and witnessed the following
This is something strange and once again we got the failure of weather station, Most probably this is because of the heavy wind gust and there may be little chance of monkey tried to tinker the device.
Is this really a Failure ? No not at all
In fact this is the learning for us, to improve the weather station structure and need for making it more sturdy and completely weather proof . Once again time to brainstorm on following points.
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Sturdy Weather Station Structure which can stand even with heavy wind gust.
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Keeping control unit (Electronics) box rain as well as heat proof, there must be sufficient air circulation through the box.
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Should deployed weather station be visible from ground, so that we can get immediate
response for any physical/mechanical damage to it.
It will be great if we discuss such issues and contribute ideas to resolve such problems in future.