Pupils in the Climate Club at Karl-Kisters Secondary School have recently started collecting data on particulate matter levels and other information relating to their school. In collaboration with the Faculty of Technology and Bionics, they built a weather station, which is now installed on the school roof and transmits various data from there.
Thanks to the solar cell, the weather station does not require any additional power supply. Anyone interested can view the weather station’s readings here:
https://opensensemap.org/explore/667c3b3de3b7f100081c26f7
The six members of the Climate Club from Years 7 and 8 are also keenly following the readings taken around their school.
To receive the data, the weather station uses a node for particularly energy-efficient, long-range radio technology: a LoRaWAN gateway. This node was set up in collaboration with the Department for Climate Protection, Environment and Sustainability of the City of Kleve and the Earth Observation Laboratory of the Faculty of Communication and Environment, and is housed within the university library.
The gateway enables sensor readings to be transmitted to the internet easily and cost-effectively. The gateway is publicly available and free to use; another node has already been operational for several months at the fruit tree arboretum in the Forstgarten.
