MeteoWind Compact and MeteoWind IoT Pro ICE-FREE update

MeteoWind Compact2 anemometer update at the Meteorological Technology world Expo 2024.

Introducing the 2025 update of the MeteoWind Compact—now on sale! This highly anticipated upgrade to one of the meteorological industry's most reliable and accurate anemometers features a sleek, more aerodynamic body and a new black ICE-FREE wind vane makes for easy differentiation. While it retains full interchangeability with its predecessor, its name now includes a squared symbol, distinguishing it as the next generation of excellence.

New for 2025

MeteoWind Compact²

• New black wind vane made of stainless steel reinforced plastic

  • Improved wind vane response and damping

    • Wind vane Delay distance < 1.0 m (acc. to ASTM D 536696)

    • Wind vane Damping ratio D = 0.31 (acc. to ASTM D 536696)

    • Wind vane Starting threshold <0.1 m/s at 90° amplitude (acc. to VDI 3786 Part 2)

  • Enhanced ICE-FREE winter operation even without heating. - a heated version of MeteoWind Compact² will be available in early 2025

• Solid-state wind speed sensor with enhanced vibration resistance and reliability

  • New solid-state sensor technology to measure wind speed (replaces reed switch)

  • Redesign of its aerodynamic body to enhance linearity and accuracy beyond the most stringent MEASNET/WMO/EPA requirements.

• More robust mounting bracket and more user-friendly mounting

• Enhanced MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) is 987,090 hours (112 years) per MIL-SPEC: MIL-HDBK-217 F Notice 2 Parts Count section ANSI/VITA 51.1-2013 (R2018)

• Enhanced winter operation for wireless weather stations that do not have enough power to heat wind sensors

• ICAO approved for all-weather airport use

For more information, please contact sales@baranidesign.com or see our datasheet section.

Wireless MeteoRain 200 Compact receives Pro designation

Wireless MeteoRain 200 Pro update at the Meteorological Technology world Expo 2024.

With numerous product updates, 2024 has been a very busy year for BARANI. Notably, the MeteoRain Compact received a significant update in measurement stability, reducing the total measurement uncertainty by more than fourfold for all rain rates ranging from 0.1 mm/hr to an unprecedented 600 mm/hr. This allowed the Pro designation to be awarded to this very low-maintenance device.

New for 2025

MeteoRain 200 Pro

MeteoRain 200 IoT Pro

• The new 3mm stainless steel mount provides a very stable measurement platform

  • Self-balancing tipping-bucket measurement mechanism update to reduce measurement uncertainty by a factor of 4

    • Exceeds the highest Class-A standards per UNI EN 17277—to the best of our knowledge, this is the only tipping bucket rain gauge to exceed these standards without requiring compensation for rain rates up to 100 mm/hr. The maximum deviation of -7% without compensation is more than 3x lower than any other professional tipping bucket or siphon rain gauge today.

    • Exceeds UNI 11452:2012 standards

    • Exceeds BS 7843-3:2012 standards

    • Exceeds CEN/TR 16469:2012

• Enhanced vibration resistance and reliability in condensing climates with long-term 100% humidity

  • The wired version with reed switch output is an IP66W rating for enhanced reliability in all-weather

  • The wireless MeteoRain 200 IoT Pro version is also IP66W rated for enhanced reliability in all-weather

• More user-friendly mounting

• It has been shown that its catchment funnel can handle over 1cm of dirt buildup in maintenance-free installations in agriculture

• Enhanced MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures):

  • MeteoRain 200 Compact MTBF = 756,929 hours (86 years) per MIL-SPEC: MIL-HDBK-217 F Notice 2 Parts Count section ANSI/VITA 51.1-2013 (R2018)

  • MeteoRain 200 IoT Pro MTBF = 482,129 hours (55 years) per MIL-SPEC: MIL-HDBK-217 F Notice 2 Parts Count section ANSI/VITA 51.1-2013 (R2018)

• For more information, please contact sales@baranidesign.com or see our datasheet section.

What does the future hold for the MeteoRain family of pluviometers

These long-awaited advances in the MeteoRain family, while taking 3 years longer than initially anticipated, have produced a highly reliable and precise measurement instrument that has been field-tested worldwide in all climates. Based on customer feedback, MeeteoRain 200 Pro rain gauges are slowly replacing all of our competitors’ tipping buckets and siphoning rain gauges in the professional segment. Notably, BARANI offers an affordable upgrade to its customers interested in upgrading their MeteoRain 200 Compact rain gauges to the new Pro version.

This update allowed BARANI to finally start work on the MeteoRain 400 Pro, which will be offered in 4 flavors:

1. An affordable Upgrade to the MeteoRain 200 Pro will increase the catchment area to 400 cm2 and double the resolution to 0.1 mm of rain.

2. The stand-alone MeteoRain 400 Pro is a complete product, including a wind fence, bird spikes, and leaf fence, all with 0.1 mm resolution.

3. Wireless MeteoRain 400 IoT Pro adds an internal battery and hidden antenna to the MeteoRain 400 Pro.

4. The Heated MeteoRain 400 Pro will feature a high-efficiency heater, making use of solar power in remote locations possible.

   • A wireless version of the Heated MeteoRain 400 Pro is also a possibility, depending on professional customer demand.

MeteoHelix, the basis for the fastest growing private WMO conforming meteorological networks

Not long ago, IoT stood for quantity and not quality. The MeteoHelix® IoT Pro micro-weather stations are here to change that. Taking advantage of the low-power wireless IoT innovations in combination with top-notch professional measurement technology, a unique micro-weather station that complies with the highest WMO and NWS measurement standards was forged.

This unique technological combination in the MeteoHelix has become the building block technology enabling climatological networks to meet strict WMO measurement standards affordably. An unexpected side benefit of this adoption has been the staggering growth rates of these networks, some of which are more than doubling in size each year. One of the fastest-growing networks is located in Belgium, which has recently become the country with the most densely populated WMO-compliant weather stations per square kilometer.

The year 2022 brings improvements to the MeteoHelix IoT Pro based on input from researchers in Antarctica and the Death Valley and feedback from many other climates. This guarantees pure measurement accuracy and data quality not based on data corrections and black-box artificial intelligence algorithms to compensate for low-quality meteorological measurements. The MeteoHelix IoT Pro provides uniform data quality in all climates ranging from the snow-covered planes of Antarctica to the rain forests of Indonesia and the sun-soaked deserts of the Death Valley.

This month in Chicago, BARANI DESIGN Technologies will be exhibiting and looking for B2B partnerships for the USA, Canada, and Mexico markets at the Meteorological Technology World Expo North America. This B2B expo will be at the Stephens Convention Center in Chicago on August 31 and September 1, 2022.

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