How It Works

This project involved extracting wind speed and direction data from an anemometer that lacked direct data access. The challenge was to establish a method of communication with the device, which required careful study of the product documentation 📖.

Solution & Execution: I successfully retrieved the data using an RS485-to-USB adapter 😋, following the wiring instructions in the manual. The communication was established with a Raspberry Pi running 🐍 Python, where I utilized the pyserial library to read the serial data from the anemometer. The wind speed and direction values were extracted from the serial string and stored in a MySQL database via the MySQL Python library and a web app was created to view the data in real time

This system ran for two years ⭐, collecting valuable data for a study on the potential installation of a wind turbine in the area.