The Missing Link for Sensor Integration

The Observator Group’s (the Netherlands) MeteoLink is a  solution to linking individual sensors and integrating sensor measurements and information into one data stream with multiple NMEA messages.

A meteorological or hydro-meteorological station normally consists of a set of sensors set to monitor required parameters and a central (conditioning, translator, data logger) unit. In  highly demanding markets each of the sensors have their own specific location and required accuracy.

MeteoLink give users the ability to ‘link’ these sensors into one chain and have one combined output containing measurements as well as sensor specific information, such like type, serial number and run times.

The system uses two kind of nodes; a basic node, able to read in two RS422 signals and a sensor specific signal, and a smart node, used as the last in the chain and provided with the internal browser, in which the total chain-output is created, including parameter-labelling, calculations, output format and baud-rate.