The project brief was to design a meteorological instrument that makes weather monitoring more accessible to both amateur and commercial users. Current offerings tend to target either the low or high end of the market, but a recent market shift - partly driven by the emergence of the Internet of Things - has created a gap for an affordable device that enables users to easily upload accurate measurements to a cloud based service. The resulting network of these weather stations could provide an accurate grid of localised weather data.

The project involved market research; form and technical design; 3D modelling; design for manufacture; prototyping; and financial analysis. The final design features solid state sensors to accurately measure: wind; temperature; pressure; relative humidity; and precipitation, housed in an injection moulded environmentally resistant plastic casing, with wireless communication - all powered by a PV cell.