News

1/9/2003

WeatherHawk Wireless Home Weather Station

At the CEDIA Expo, WeatherHawk will announce the immediate availability of its new line of wireless weather stations for Home Automation, Education and light Industrial applications. Key features of this exciting new weather station are its ease of installation, Plug-and-Play Home Automation drivers, and high reliability industrial quality at consumer prices.

WeatherHawk is the most reliable, rugged weather station available for home installation. WeatherHawk weather stations are easily installed, offering a reliable control input for window, window covering, landscape irrigation, and HVAC optimizer systems.

WeatherHawk is delivered in a single box, preconfigured with Wind Speed, Wind Direction, Air Temperature, Relative Humidity, Solar Radiation, Barometric Pressure and Rainfall sensors fully installed and ready for use. After placing WeatherHawk on a pole, or tripod, the installer configures Virtual Weather Station TM software on a personal computer, and then installs the driver appropriate to the resident Home Automation system. Within minutes the system is ready to gather, review and export real-time weather information. In addition to basic weather parameters, WeatherHawk reports Heat Index, Dew Point, Wind Chill and even ETo (evapotranspiration) information for landscape irrigation scheduling.

A key feature of the WeatherHawk system is Virtual Weather Station software. This PC based application enables the home owner to configure and graphically display their own weather information. With point and click Windows TM display building tools, a home owner can instantly create graphs, charts, gauges and many other pictorial displays of real-time and historical weather data. Virtual Weather Station - Internet Edition further enables the home owner to post "their" weather information on a personal website. Anyone can then access the weather on their WeatherHawk from the Internet anywhere in the world.

WeatherHawk is available in both directly connected and wireless versions. The directly connected version is wired to a PC via an available RS232 serial data or USB port.

The wireless versions use spread spectrum radios operating in the unlicensed 900 MHz and 2.4GHz radio bands. Powerful WeatherHawk radios can reach wireless ranges up to one-half mile without repeater transceivers, and up to 5 1/2 miles using optional high gain antennas.

A complete range of hardware options enable a home automation installer to easily adapt the WeatherHawk to virtually any site, data or input power requirement. The wireless, solar powered configuration of WeatherHawk has "no" hardwire connections to home electrical or data making it ideal for home automation retro-fits, or as an easily added high margin installer upgrade to new construction.

WeatherHawk is the design leader, in complete value priced weather stations for Home Automation, Education and Light Industrial applications.

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