Implementación de una Estación Meterológica Portátil Mediante Drone para la Facultad de Ciencias - Espoch.

Abstract

The objective of this research is to implement a portable weather station via a Drome for the Science faculty in ESPOCH. For this data at higher altitudes and in different strategic locations without building a physical station, through electronic sensors could measure environmental variables such as the station's own small nano circuits that can perform the same measurement was required. Its characteristics as stability, security and costs are compared, as this was chosen to DORNE DIY Y6. For the census of each weather variable was featured three types of sensors with: humidity, temperature, atmospheric pressure and wind speed, they communicate with the Arduino Mega, this set of sensors and Arduino board it adheres radio communication XBee modules often and all this assembly implements the Drone with the total card issuer. This data is acquired by the same Xbee module configured as a receiver; it is connected serially to a computer for processing and display of the data output via an interface. Visualization and processing of data from the Drone made it through LABVIEW software. In the results 91.25% as reliable data and 8.75% as similar data from sample to sample, it obtained a small error which was generated by decimal, where 0% in the variable temperature and humidity, in atmospheric pressure 0.018% and 0.036% in wind speed. We conclude that through free hardware Arduino cards at a low cost you can make a high-performance control as a fixed meteorological tower getting a Drone that welcomes the characteristics for this type of mission. It is recommended that this weather Drone do not fly in thunderstorms and rain for good communication with GPS.