Inspired by a mobile weather station project led by IWMI’s Yann Chemin, two young research engineers from Sri Lanka have developed their own version of the device as a more advanced, standalone product.
Thilina Ambagahawaththa and Anuruddha Tennakoon are graduates from the University of Moratuwa (UoM) in Sri Lanka, where they currently work in the Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering department. They have named their product as “ATmosphere” and have started their own company “A & T Labs (Pvt) Ltd”.
“We thank IWMI’s Dr Yann for the motivation”, Ambagahawaththa said.
“He was also the one who convinced us to make the data open-access, so we are currently feeding data to the Weather Underground website,” Tennakoon added.
Winners all the way
They recently won two awards for their product at the awards ceremony of Techno Sri Lanka 2015, held in Colombo on November 6, 2015.
They introduced their IoT solution — the technology used for their weather station: the process from a development board to a complete product — and their weather station.
They won the Gold Award in the Most Innovative Local Product category and Silver Award in the Product with Highest Social Impact category.
Both were grateful once more to IWMI’s Yann Chemin, thanking him for his “kind inspiration and motivation throughout their journey.”
