{"id":2677,"date":"2013-03-15T14:23:44","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T19:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2677"},"modified":"2013-03-15T14:23:44","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T19:23:44","slug":"mobiles-crowdsourced-weather-measurement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/03\/15\/mobiles-crowdsourced-weather-measurement","title":{"rendered":"Mobiles &#038; crowdsourced weather measurement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/8559534421\/\" title=\"pressureNET by byte, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8390\/8559534421_34129d10d0_n.jpg?resize=180%2C320\" width=\"180\" height=\"320\" alt=\"pressureNET\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\"\/><\/a>I shared this from The Economist quite some time back: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/science-and-technology\/21571384-how-use-mobile-phone-networks-weather-forecasting-counting-raindrops\">Counting raindrops<\/a>. Here is an example of folk using mobile phone networks themselves for weather forecasting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today I stumbled upon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cumulonimbus.ca\/\">Cumulonimbus<\/a>. They have an Android application called <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=ca.cumulonimbus.barometernetwork\">pressureNET<\/a>, which makes use of the barometer in some Android phones. This is user-contributed atmospheric pressure readings, embedded on a Google map. It is available to view at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pressurenet.cumulonimbus.ca\/\">http:\/\/pressurenet.cumulonimbus.ca\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cumulonimbus.ca\/the-galaxy-s4-has-a-barometer\/\">seems<\/a> many devices have a barometer as well. Samsung leads the pack with the Galaxy S3, S4, Note, Note II, Galaxy Nexus. It also comes with the Nexus 4 &amp; Nexus 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I shared this from The Economist quite some time back: Counting raindrops. Here is an example of folk using mobile phone networks themselves for weather forecasting.\u00a0 Today I stumbled upon Cumulonimbus. They have an Android application called pressureNET, which makes use of the barometer in some Android phones. This is user-contributed atmospheric pressure readings, embedded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1503],"tags":[1511,682,1523,361,1475,1522],"class_list":["post-2677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-crowdsourced","tag-data","tag-measurement","tag-mobile","tag-open-data","tag-weather"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-Hb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}