2021-09-17 Meeting notes

Briefing

Enrico

• 44 stations are connected via GSM (mobile connection), buffer conversion is ready, and ECMWF and DWD are able to receive the data from the Cloud.

• Data are missing from the Malawi AWSs because of the SIM card billing

Dashboard

Mauritz

• A dashboard for monitoring the stations' status

• loggernet is working, from LoggerNet, there are two stations, but S3 bucket is only receiving 1 station.

• Timo to open another port (now it is 8080)

• SQL Server Reporting Services

How to get the data from Linux box

Enrico

Mauritz

• (Mauritz): FTP solution

• Enrico: if the FTP fails, a FTP failure torelent solution

• Once the FTP works, the previous data will be recollected

• Logger is fully programmable

Problems of Malawi stations

Amos Mtonya

• disconnection was notified last week

• billing problem: Bills were sent to the AWS, which should be sent to meteo office.

• (Enrico) One month of data to be tested before its operation, data to be sent out properly.

• (Enrico) Antennas are on the way.

• (Mauritz) DHL confirms that antenas will be delivered on 29th September.

• (Enrico) Battery replacement

  • (Amos) it is ongoing

Discussion

All

• (Hassan) Postpaid card issue

  • frequency of the data collection

  • same provider for all AWS? why the status are in red or green

    • (Amos)bill, not much, problem is the process , would be changed from postpaid to prepaid

    • (Enrico) For Prepaid, how do you know you need to charge the SIM card?

    • (Amos) Bill is under monitoring, it is only the problem of the service provider’s process