[Weather] dual drains -- was Re: conversion help

[Dave McGuire]

On Nov 21, 2006, at 9:39 PM, Mark Richards wrote:
> There's a discussion going on about a "rain plate" here:
> http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/ 
> Home_20weather_20station_20with_20bucketless_20electronic_20rain_20gau 
> ge
>
> Tis a very cool idea, but I think this description is tops:
>
> "Assign each raindrop an ipv6 address and a very small RFID tag that
> broadcasts the address. Upon impingement with, or near, the raingauge,
> the recovered IP address is used in a query to recover the properties
> stored in the raindrop database for that address, in this case, the
> water volume of the particular raindrop.  	
>
> The volumes are aggregated over time and divided by the number of
> recorded droplet impacts to calculate the total volume of rainfall."
>
>
> I'd take it one step further and store each raindrop's properties in a
> mysql table allowing historical analysis and graphing of the data,  
> too.

   Geek alert!!!

   (can we use PostgreSQL instead? ;))

               -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL