Development of Micro Weather Station Based on Long Range Radio Using Automatic Packet Reporting System Protocol

Automatic Weather Station is an integrated system of measuring instruments, interfaces, and data processing and transmission capable of collecting weather data. Weather stations data can be crowd-sourced through Citizen Weather Observer Program (CWOP), powered by Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS). To further increase the performance of the weather station, a LoRa based modem is used as the transceiver modem. This paper proposes an automatic weather station network using a LoRa-based APRS network. Preliminary results show that the prototyped weather station data can be easily integrated to APRS-IS based network infrastructure.