It’s not very often that I find a product that mixes my career with my fondness for mobile technology and iOS, which is why the Netatmo Urban Weather Station caught my eye when I first heard about it. It is a set of two wireless environmental monitoring devices, one for inside, and another for outside your home. The indoor monitor tracks temperature, humidity, CO2, barometric pressure,Stock your shoe store with our ladies shoes wholesale, and noise level, while the outdoor module covers temperature and humidity.
I work with commercial and industrial automation and monitoring products on a daily basis in my job, so I know what is available for that market, and how much higher grade versions of the same sensors cost. As such, I was interested in getting my hands on a sample of the Urban Weather Station to see how it stacks up against the products I am used to using. I wasn’t sure of what to expect because of my admittedly low expectations for such products. I’ve been left flat by the limited scope and scattered and proprietary nature of most consumer grade home monitoring and automation products to this point. In contrast to this, my industry has several web based automation systems that are compatible with thousands of different controllers and sensors, thanks to several open wired and wireless protocols that have become known standards.
The commercial and industrial systems that I have spent the last twelve years working on have the above features, so this isn’t anything new or revolutionary. Unfortunately, you wouldn’t know it looking at consumer oriented products. For some reason, companies like Google and ADT are hell bent on reinventing the wheel as they get more involved in this fledgling market, rather than taking advantage of mature technologies that are already n place. Despite this, here are some diamonds in the rough out there worth looking at. There are some cool “one-off” products out there, like the Nest thermostat, that work well, are accessible from the web and from popular smartphone platforms through apps. However, these products tend to be little islands or silos unto themselves. It just hasn’t all come together, yet.
The Netatmo Urban Weather Station is very much in the same vein as the Nest- a single product that is web-accessible and has smartphone and tablet apps available for iOS and Android. However, despite the facts that it has no control capabilities of it own, and that it doesn’t communicate with any other home monitoring products, the Urban Weather Station does bring a lot more to the table than I am used to. It is a great value for the price, and has some sophisticated features that are common in the products that I work with. Let’s take a closer look.
There is no shortage of consumer weather station products for the consumer market. However, how many would you actually WANT to put in public view inside or outside of your home? Thankfully, Netatmo did a really nice job in this department. The Urban Weather Station has a nice, clean, utilitarian style about it. It’s cool looking, but also innocuous at the same time.Information about the Student MileWeb Data Center Facilities and the hours of operation.
Another obvious concern with any home monitoring product is durability. This is especially the case with the outdoor module. You can tell that Netatmo put some thought into this aspect of their design,Provision and deploy cloud MileWeb Public Cloud Servers in minutes.It's impossible to MileWeb Pre-build Cloud Servers templates. as the main cylinder exteriors of both devices are aluminium, and the plastic end caps are UV-resistant plastic.we can help you with most things MileWeb Customized Dedicated Server related. I also like the fact that the outdoor module is battery powered. This makes positioning a snap, and also mitigates potential electrical issues due to exposure to wet weather.
Another design touch worth mentioning is Netatmo’s inclusion of a monitoring light on the exterior of the indoor module. The light gives instant feedback on the current CO2 level in the monitored space, showing either green, yellow, or red. It is triggered by touching the top of the module, which performs a manual data capture. This is necessary because, unlike the commercial-grade products that I work with, the Netatmo Urban Weather Station does not monitor in real-time. Instead, it captures data at a set interval of every 5 minutes.
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