Remote Weather Monitoring Station with iNut: Rain, Wind, Temperature, Humidity, Pressure for Agriculture

For farmers, weather is the biggest and hardest-to-predict variable. An unforecast downpour can flood freshly planted beds; a strong gust can knock down trellises; a single cold night can be enough to ruin an entire flower garden. Yet most growers still rely on regional forecasts — figures covering an entire province rather than their own plot — or worse, simply read the sky and guess when it will rain.

Manual methods are also fragmented: a thermometer hung in a corner of the garden, a hygrometer inside the net house, a notebook for rainfall kept differently by each person — the data never comes together in one place, there is no history to compare against, and it is never real time. By the time an anomaly is noticed, it is often too late. iNut solves exactly this bottleneck: a weather station placed right in the field, measuring continuously, with data flowing automatically to your phone and the system acting on its own by threshold — instead of a person watching the sky day and night.

The iNut weather station brings together dedicated agricultural sensors: rain gauging (cumulative rainfall by hour/day), wind measurement (speed via anemometer, direction via wind vane), air temperature & humidity, atmospheric pressure (an early signal of weather trends), plus optional solar radiation. Everything feeds into a single iNut gateway, gets normalized and timestamped — ready to compare, chart, and act on.

Field stations are usually far from the house and off the power grid. iNut solves this with iNut RS485 and WiFi Mesh: sensor nodes transmit wirelessly, automatically forming a mesh network that covers the whole field, powered by solar panels. Where there is no fixed Internet, iNut PC serves as the edge layer, aggregating data and then uplinking over 4G; for greater distances, LoRa can carry the signal several kilometers. Install once, and the data comes back on its own — no cable runs, no trenching.

Measuring alone isn't enough — the iNut weather station also acts. Set thresholds once: wind exceeds a dangerous level → shade nets lower and greenhouse film rolls up automatically; heavy rain accumulates → irrigation valves close, drainage valves open; scorching heat → fans turn on, misting activates. The logic runs right on iNut PC at the edge, switching relays – valves – fans in an instant without depending on the network — paired with iNut Muro to control the microclimate inside net houses.

The most valuable thing a weather station gives you is advance warning. When pressure drops rapidly (a sign of an incoming storm), gusts exceed a threshold, or nighttime temperature reaches frost levels, iNut PC automatically sends alerts via Email and Telegram — complete with the readings and timestamp. You get the notification on your phone right away, wherever you are, in time to cover crops, harvest early, or protect plants from the cold.

The whole station appears on the iNut app and the iNut Platform SCADA dashboard (self-hosted cloud): a wind gauge, a daily rainfall chart, and real-time temperature – humidity – pressure curves. iNut Datalogger stores history for season-to-season comparison and trend analysis; iNut OPC (OPC UA/Modbus/XML-DA) helps integrate the station's data into larger agricultural systems. View readings, change thresholds, switch devices on or off — all remotely, right from your phone.

A weather station has to survive in the harshest spots: out in the fields, along riverbanks, on open hills. iNut hardware sits in a weatherproof outdoor cabinet, powered by solar panels so it needs no grid connection; wireless transmission means no cable runs either. Installation is quick, and it runs for years with almost no maintenance — growers just open the app to check the sky.

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