1. UNMA Experience with Automatic weather Stations
Milton M Waiswa

2. Areas of Discussion
Any feedback/ Comments concerning our current installations at the Makerere Station
UNMA's preference for where (the locations) WIMEA-ICT should place the 30 units being designed
UNMA's preference for storage functionality (SD card / Flash memory) on the AWS sink node
UNMA's preference of the frequency of AWS data summaries (per minute/5-minute/hour?)
Current status of Lightning station at UNMA

3. Introduction Rainfall Air temperature Soil temperature Wind Direction
Wind Speed
Solar radiation
Air Pressure

4. Feedback on Shelters for thermometers
AWS Shelter
Manual Shelter

5. UNMA's preference for where (the locations) WIMEA-ICT should place the 30 units being designed

6. Locations of UNMA Weather Stations

7. UNMA's preference for storage functionality (SD card / Flash memory) on the AWS sink node

8. Data Logger Properties
The Data Logger should have a non volatile memory facility. Should keep weather data for sometime even it runs out of power
Transmit data to remote servers by wireless facility, cellular data connectivity
Options for physical access to data from Data logger : Flash disk/Memory Card

9. UNMA's preference of the frequency of AWS data summaries (per minute/5-minute/hour?)

10. Frequency data observations
Earth networks : 1 minute interval
Davis AWS: minute interval
ADCON AWS: minutes interval
Others: minutes interval
Finally Data is summarized in terms of a day, 10 days and Month

11. Current status of Lightning station at UNMA

12. Locations of Lightening Detectors
Entebbe, Kaliro, Tororo, Sironko, Nepak, Kotido, Agago

13. Thanks for Listening