Low-cost mobile weather stations are designed to help us monitor the weather more closely. These devices could help rural communities better prepare for floods and landslides. All of the work featured here is open source.

All of the work featured here is open source. You can copy the weather station designs or modify them and build your own version.

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Installation manual – Sinhalese

Installation manual – Tamil

Download the Mobile Weather Stations Infographic
Download the Infographic
Download the Poster - Water Resources Monitoring in Sri Lanka
Download the Poster – Water Resources Monitoring in Sri Lanka
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A national upgrade of the climate monitoring grid in Sri Lanka. The place of Open Design, OSHW and FOSS.
Poster - OSHW and FOSS4G for an online water valet
Download the Poster – OSHW and FOSS4G for an online water valet

IWMI’s weather stations are taken up by others:

  • IWMI supports the Coordinating Secretariat for Science, Technology and Education (COSTI) to develop National Weather Laboratory:
    http://www.costi.gov.lk/index.php/en/2011-03-31-04-24-11?download=185:report-round-table-discussion-on-developing-a-national-climate-observatory-system-for-sri-lanka
  • IWMI enables Lanka Rainwater Harvesting Forum to establish warning systems in schools in Sri Lanka:  http://lankarainwater.org/wp/?p=2416
  • IWMI inspires young Sri Lanka entrepreneurs to develop a startup:
    http://atlabslanka.com/web/index.php
    http://www.iwmi.org/2015/11/winners-all-the-way/
    http://www.iwmi.org/2015/10/iwmi-lights-up-the-path-for-two-young-entrepreneurs/
  • IWMI-inspired startup installs weather stations for rural bank in Sri Lanka to support payouts of weather index insurance products:
    http://www.impactinsurance.org/practitioner-lessons/sanasa
    https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:GwxchM4nu40J:https://a2ii.org/sites/default/files/events/cf9_session_2_best_practices_and_lession_learnt_index_insurance_in_sri_lanka.pptx+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&client=firefox-b-ab
    http://www.munichre-foundation.org/dms/MRS/Documents/Microinsurance/2016_IMC/Presentations/Pleanary2-IMC2016-Presentation-Kiriwandeniya/Pleanary2%20IMC2016%20Presentation%20Kiriwandeniya.pdf
  • IWMI’s stations are further developed by the University of Moratuwa and Institute of Earth Sciences—Switzerland to create a weather observatory:
    http://4onse.org/#/?_k=wohvnh
  • UNESCO provides technical assistance for flood management:
    https://opendata.unesco.org/project/41304-567RAS2000
  • Pakistan Meteorological Department and the World Food Program use IWMI prototype to install stations for early warning systems:
    http://www.pmd.gov.pk/wfp/weather.html and http://202.83.174.35/faws/index.php
  • In addition, we have been contacted by the following, who have indicated that they are using our materials to assemble and design their own stations for their purposes:
    • Solomon Islands (UNDP): weather monitoring
    • Vanuatu (Ministry of Agriculture): monitoring weather
    • Togo (Red Cross/ Red Crescent Climate Change): monitoring rainfamm; research purposes
    • Haiti (Ecole Supérieure d’Infotronique d’Haïti): education and research
    • USA (World Wildlife Fund):
    • Canada (Farmer’s Edge): monitoring soil moisture
    • Japan (International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management): research and education on climate change
    • Bhutan (Mountain Hazelnut Venture Pvt. Ltd.): weather monitoring