Bosmet is currently running off a moored Devon Yawl in Bosham Harbour. Ideally the data logger and anemometer would be located on a static pile post in Bosham Harbour instead. If you have any contacts that could help with this please make contact with us.
The temperature is being recorded as well, but is currently not displayed. The temperature sensor still needs to be calibrated.
A user has raised concerns over the accuracy of the wind speeds given differences compared to other weather stations in Chichester Harbour. Validation will be done via alternative anemometer in the same Bosham location, as well as moving the boat on which recordings are made to the location of the other Chichester Harbour weather stations.
The solar power panel is too large and tends to get blown around in very high wind days. Calculations need to be performed to see what size solar panel is actually required, alongside how best to attach it appropriately.
The Bosmet data logger was original developed using an approach of "edge device" data processing. That is the Bosmet data logger app recorded wind readings to a local database. It then relied upon data replication between the data logger local database and the database on the server. This proved to be too slow and the near constant replication consumed too much resource. It also caused storage issues on the local data logger, with the deletion process being very complex as to not be replicated to the server database instance. The Bosmet data logger app will now be updated to follow an IoT (Internet of Things) pattern. Utilising MQTT to send data to the server.