The Observatory Successfully Patented the Design of Automatic Weather Station - Hong Kong Observatory
The Hong Kong Observatory successfully registered a patent in Hong Kong for its in-house developed bollard design for automatic weather station (AWS) in December 2020. With the new design, various meteorological sensors can be housed together in a compact enclosure, solving the problem of installing an ordinary automatic weather station in urban areas where space is limited. This facilitates the future development of microscale weather monitoring. Having a combination of sensors for meteorological measurements, such as air temperature, relative humidity, air pressure, and ultraviolet index, the bollard style AWS also has a lighting feature that allows it to be integrated within parks or landscaped gardens as a landscape fixture. To establish the design, the Observatory used 3D printing technology to fabricate the prototype of the radiation shields and electronic housing. This expedited the making of the enclosure that is not only functional but with an outlook unlike any ordinary AWS.
The Hong Kong Observatory successfully registered a patent in Hong Kong for its in-house developed bollard design for automatic weather station (AWS) in December 2020. With the new design, various meteorological sensors can be housed together in a compact enclosure, solving the problem of installing an ordinary automatic weather station in urban areas where space is limited. This facilitates the future development of microscale weather monitoring. Having a combination of sensors for meteorological measurements, such as air temperature, relative humidity, air pressure, and ultraviolet index, the bollard style AWS also has a lighting feature that allows it to be integrated within parks or landscaped gardens as a landscape fixture. To establish the design, the Observatory used 3D printing technology to fabricate the prototype of the radiation shields and electronic housing. This expedited the making of the enclosure that is not only functional but with an outlook unlike any ordinary AWS.