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Abstract

Our research describes the development of a wireless data acquisition system (WDAS) for monitoring weather stations. It is based on a GSM/GPRS module with a SIM card, so that we can communicate with it as if it were a mobile phone, obtaining communication between the monitored systems and the data collection server. The proposed system consists of a set of sensors to measure meteorological parameters (solar radiation, solar torque, ambient temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, rain, etc.). The LabVIEW program is used to process, display, and store the collected data on the PC disk. The system has a TFT LCD to show the values of the variables monitored by the weather station. The proposed architecture allows rapid development of the system. It has the advantage of flexibility and can be easily expanded to control renewable energy systems such as photovoltaic system. The measured parameters are available online through the Internet for any user.