Using vantage pro2 weather station in agriculture to solve problems

1. Davis Vantage PRO2 WEATHER
STATION
Group members
Jordon Tejada
[20161024]
Renae Brown
[20160675]
Samantha Beckford
[ 20100144]
Jovan Fletcher
[20160920]
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2. Drought
Flood
Hurricane
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4. Davis Vantage Pro2 Weather Stations is a national
weather risk management and disease alert system that
is designed to show records and inventory of weather
data, provide graphs and alarm functions as well as
interfaces to a computer using the optional weather
link software. In the present of any computer,
smartphone, tablet etc.
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5.  Brand of Computers-The super Computer will be of
a ASUS Brand of Computer
 Computer Processing Speed-The Computer Speed of
Vantage Pro2 will be of a speed of 45.89 PFLOPS (one
quadrillion operations per second).
 Physical Size –Form factor, foot print –The physical
size of the computer would be 20 inches for the
monitor with the width being 19ˮ the height 18ˮ the
Depth 20ˮ.
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6.  Computer Memory type and size-Vantage Pro2 memory type
would be DDR4- FB-DIMMS with its memory size being and of
the size 7.2 GB per core and 200 GB per node
 Hard drive capacity- The Hard drive capacity of Vantage Pro 2 will
be 3 TB
Types of Backup storages needed (internally and externally)- The type
of Backup storages device for Vantage Pro2 are :
 Magnetic tape- Which is very cheap and reliable and uses serial
access.
 Floppy disk- Is of a small capacity 8 Mb, which uses random or
direct access.
 CD- ROM- Optical storage of 900 Mb and uses a laser to read and
write information to disk
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7. Cloud storage
The Vantage Pro 2 will use to save their information on and it
can be easily access such as Google Docs, Google Drive and
Flickr. This in which Vantage Pro2 will create a password
protected account where files that are private or files that can
be shared to the users informing them about the Weather
Condition can be easily accessed.
Network storage
 Two types of network storage that is used are:
 Storage area Network (SAN) this is used because it utilizes
high-end servers, high disk arrays and fibre channel
interconnection technology
 Network Attached Storage (NAS) connects to a network and
can help users share the content stored from it on different
computers
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8. With internet access and a free download app for
iPhone and Android, users can see data of weather
related conditions. Similarly, persons using
computer can download data from
WeatherLink.com for further analysis. The following
is an elaboration on the aforementioned technologies
application and system software.
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9. The Vantage Pro2 Weather Stations consist of system
software that is designed to run the computer’s
hardware and application programs through the
operating system. This technology contains “a version
of:
 Laptop Computer
 Smartphone
 Tablet
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10. The display console that comes with the Davis Vantage
Pro2 Weather Station is mainly connected to a computer
(laptop) via weather link cable (preferably the serial).
These computers must be equipped with the required
windows, so if your computer is using some other
operating system rather than windows, it is well
preferred you used an older 32-bit windows PC as it is
dedicated weather PC. However, if you find a program
compatible with your operating system that offers all
the same features you need, they might be room for
major problems and difficulties (Precision Weather
Instruments, 2017, P.9). Therefore, it is required you
used a window operating system whether Microsoft 32-
bits windows, windows 7, windows 8, windows 10 etc.
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11. Another key computer the Davis Vantage Pro2 Weather
Station combines and link with are the smartphones
and tablets. These technologies consist of Apple iPhone,
Android and windows Phone operating system. The
Apple iPhone multi-touch, multi-tasking operating
system is what runs the Apple’s iPhone when the
Vantage Pro2 app is installed on the device. It performs
certain task and functions on the app such as to tap on
the screen to open the Vantage Pro2 program, pinch
your fingers together to minimise or enlarge an image
or graphs of weather data and to swipe your fingers
across the screen to change page or scroll down and up
the pages.
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12. The Vantage Pro2 consists of weather application
software and specialized data logger that provide
connections to the Vantage Pro2 Weather Envoy. The
Envoy 8X software and data logger transfers your
Vantage Pro or Vantage Pro2 weather data to your
computer, smartphones and tablets. The data collected
further explained that “With 32 times the memory of our
Envoy 8X receives and logs data simultaneously from up to
eight transmitting stations, in any combination” (Precision
Weather Instruments, 2017, P.11).
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13. The Envoy 8X includes robust software that creates a
permanent weather database in Microsoft Access or
Microsoft SQL Server for all weather condition such as
soil moisture, temperature, rainfall, humidity etc. Once
stored in the database, your weather information can be
used to generate a wide variety of reports and graphical
displays, and can also be shared via the Internet
including your other technological devices.
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14. After the data is relocated to Microsoft Access
(database) it can “be easily exported to spreadsheet
program such as excel or to the Weather Link to take
advantage of Weather Link’s graphing and reports”
(Precision Weather Instruments, 2017, P.11). In
addition, the weather data that is displayed from the
Vantage Pro2 Weather Station can be shown in
Microsoft Word document to add the typical word
processing application features such as text
manipulation, document formatting, graphics, tables
etc. Especially; if the data is going to be presented to a
person in the form of a letter or document.
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15. Davis Vantage Pro2 Weather Station technology is
operated by Virtual VP (VVP) utility program that lets
you connect up to four weather programs to a single
Davis Vantage Pro2 weather Station (console or
Envoy). PRODATA Weather Systems, (2017) further
explained that “Virtual VP (VVP) is an inexpensive utility
that provides a very handy solution to a specific problem.
This problem is that a VP logger can only pass data to one
specific program at a time. If one program is talking to the
logger then a second program can’t get a look-in until the
first program completely drops its communications link to
the logger” (para. 9).
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16. Therefore, two or more programs cannot work
simultaneously to receive live and recent weather
historical data from the logger. Hence, weather
link data logger can only talk to one main PC at a
time and only one program can run on that PC at a
time. In general, no Virtual VP utility program is
design perfectly, some of these programs performs
nearly all their programs. While other locks certain
specific features such as graphics
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17. For example, “It would be often being appealing to
design a single web page that can combine the very
flexible and detailed output from one program with
high-quality graphics from another, for example. an
increasing number of users now have local area
networks, i.e. two or more interconnected PCs. Such
users might appreciate the facility to view live VP data
on two or more of these PCs at the same time”
(PRODATA Weather Systems, 2017, para. 10). Seen
in figure 1.
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19. The Davis Vantage Pro2 Weather Station is an
innovative new technology that allows it’s users to
access weather information within the comfort of
one’s home or business Premises. It indeed requires
cloud technology because one a if it's main features
where in which the user can access and share weather
information anywhere across the globe requires an
internet connection. The weather station provides a
webpage for every single user and that is where the
weather information is uploaded.
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20. Figure 2: Illustrating the Total Projected Cost for Davis Vantage Pro2
Pictures of Devices Name of Devices Price of devices
Davis Instrument 6152
Wireless Vantage Pro2
Weather Station
US $ 650.00
or
JMD $ 84218.39
Davis Instrument 6316
Wireless Weather Envoy
US $ 135.69
or
JMD $ 17580.91
Davis Weather Link 6520
Software Data Logger &
Cable for Macintosh
US $ 137.75
or
JMD $ 17847.82
Laptop HP US $ 359.00 or JMD
$46514.46
Apple iPhone Us $ 499.99 or JMD $
64782.08
Apple iPad US $ 599.99
or
JMD $ 77738.75
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21. The Farm Radio Network, Email and Telephone would
use to alerts other farmers on the following:
 Increasing food supplies and improving nutrition
and health
 The natural disaster that is coming, such as
hurricane, drought or flood
 Safety and practical of the crops
 About the ecologically sound and environmentally
sustainable
 Information on the require little or no technical help
to implement
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22. Due to the willingness, cooperation, and dedication of the
group members, this project has remarkable information
that can educate the individuals and the farmers. The
farmers were experiencing problems that damage their crop
and livestock on the farm. We come to a conclusion to use
an emerged technology called the Davis vantage pro 2
weather station to solve this problem. This project
highlight the hardware, software, the operation system, the
cost, internal and external storage and the drawbacks of the
technology.
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23. Davis weather monitoring, (2017). Store and download data
to your Mac. Retrieved on May 2, 2017. From
http://www.davisnet.com/product/weatherlink-for-mac-os-x-
for-vantage-stations/
Precision Weather Instruments, (2017). Envoy8X: Designed
for customers with multiple stations and lots of data.
Retrieved on May 2, 2017. From
http://www.skystef.be/Davis.pdf
PRODATA Weather System, (2017). Windows VS other
operating systems. Retrieved on May 2, 2017. From
http://www.weatherstations.co.uk/compatible.htm
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