Support Software (Data Collection, Monitoring and Analytics)

Support software connects weather stations and dataloggers to a PC or server for programming, communication, data collection and real-time or historical display. Our range includes Campbell Scientific's LoggerNet and PC400 datalogger support software, the Stratus Weather Server multi-vendor analytics platform, our Lightning Detection System admin console, and the WeatherQuery graphical data display.

LoggerNet Datalogger Support Software.

LoggerNet is Campbell Scientific's full-featured datalogger support software for programming, communication and data retrieval across a datalogger network. It consists of a server application and several integrated client applications. It can support a connection to a single datalogger, but it is especially suited to applications that need telecommunications or scheduled data retrieval across large datalogger networks.

LoggerNet handles network setup, configuration, monitoring and backup; datalogger programming, maintenance and data collection; and real-time or historical data display. The server stores data in a cache and writes it to a variety of formats, including ASCII, binary and XML.

Role	Full-featured datalogger support software for single stations and large networks
Architecture	Server application with integrated client applications
Programming	CRBasic and Short Cut program generator
Communications	Direct, IP/Ethernet, phone modem, cellular, radio (RF) and other telecommunications
Data collection	Scheduled, on-demand and continuous collection
Data formats	ASCII, binary and XML
Display	Real-time and historical numeric and graphical displays
Operating system	Microsoft Windows

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Developer
Campbell Scientific

PC400 Datalogger Support Software.

PC400 is Campbell Scientific's free datalogger support software for a single station or a simple network. It supports a variety of telecommunication options, manual data collection and data display, and it is an easy step up from the entry level without the full networking capability of LoggerNet.

PC400 includes an easy-to-use program generator (Short Cut) as well as full-featured program editors (CRBasic and Edlog). It communicates with a datalogger network over a direct connection, IP/Internet connection, phone modem or RF link.

Role	Free datalogger support software for a single station or simple network
Programming	Short Cut program generator, CRBasic and Edlog editors
Communications	Direct, IP/Internet, phone modem and RF link
Data collection	Manual data collection
Display	Numeric and graphical data display
Cost	Free of charge
Operating system	Microsoft Windows

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Developer
Campbell Scientific

Stratus Weather Server Weather Station Management & Analytics.

A professional, multi-vendor web application for weather station management, data collection and real-time monitoring. Stratus connects to Campbell Scientific dataloggers and a range of IoT/cloud weather platforms, then turns raw observations into rich meteorological, agricultural, aviation, fire-risk and wind-energy analytics. All station connections listed below are in production use and tested against real hardware.

Campbell Scientific (PakBus)	Native PakBus implementation over TCP/IP, including clock sync and scheduled or on-demand collection
Supported dataloggers	CR300, CR310, CR350, CR1000, CR1000X, CR1000Xe
Dropbox sync	Watches a folder and ingests a logger export whenever it changes. This is how the cellular sites actually deliver data: the logger writes to Dropbox and Stratus reads it. Read-only; Stratus never writes to your Dropbox
HTTP POST ingest	The station pushes readings to a per-station endpoint
Manual file import	TOA5 or CSV upload for bulk history
RIKA cloud	v2 API
Dew Point	Magnus formula when not reported by the station
Sea Level Pressure (QNH)	Hypsometric adjustment from station pressure and altitude (RIKA stations that report SLP directly are handled in reverse)
Air Density	From temperature, pressure and humidity
Density Altitude	With METAR-style flight-category classification
Reference Evapotranspiration (ETo)	FAO-56 Penman-Monteith
Water Balance	Rainfall versus ETo
Heat Index / Wind Chill / Feels-Like	Apparent temperature calculations
Heat Stress (WBGT)	Wet Bulb Globe Temperature
Atmospheric Stability	Pasquill-Gifford stability class
Air Quality Index	AQI from PM2.5 / PM10 (e.g. RIKA particulate sensors)
Rainfall Intensity & Yearly Totals	With per-station cumulative-counter offset correction
Weather Trend Analysis	Current values versus historical average
Growing Degree Days (GDD)	Accumulated heat units for crop modelling
Chill Units	Accumulated cold-hours for dormancy/fruiting models
Lowveld Fire Danger Index (LFDI)	Official SAWS/Namibia AFIS formula: (BI + WF) × RCF
Fire danger scoring	Fuel moisture estimation and component fire-danger scoring

Developer
Inteltronics Instrumentation

Lightning Detection System Admin Panel.

The web admin console for the Stratus Weather lightning detection system, managing tenants, detectors, alerting and reporting.

Multi-tenant	Each client gets its own panel at /<slug>/, with a platform-level management console at the root for creating clients and assigning newly-reporting detectors
Alert configuration	Recipients, groups and per-tenant alert configuration with an alert cooldown
SMS alerts	Sent via Clickatell, with a master on/off switch. The gateway is platform infrastructure and is not exposed in client panels
Monthly PDF reports	Generated with WeasyPrint, including vector charts: CPU trend, distance histogram, energy bands, uptime gauge and storm activity
Event history	Includes per-event delivery detail
Detector provisioning	A detector files itself under the platform tenant on its first heartbeat and is invisible to every client panel until an admin assigns it on the platform console's Detectors page. That is deliberate rather than incidental: an unclaimed unit has no owning client, so there is no recipient list to consult and no alert is sent for it. Assigning a unit also re-files its strike history, heartbeat samples and calibration records.
POPIA	A recipient's number is masked to its country prefix and last two digits before it reaches a log, because container logs are rotated to disk, swept into backups and read by platform staff who have no relationship with the client's staff. The full number stays in the message log the client is entitled to see on their own event page, scoped to their tenant.
Storm activity display	Recorded strikes are grouped into five proximity bands, nearest first, each drawn as a small cumulonimbus that flashes more often the busier the band. The block under each cloud gives the strike count with the peak, mean and lowest intensity recorded in that band.
Distance bands	<= 1 km (overhead), < 10 km, < 20 km, < 30 km, 30-40 km
Time window	Selectable from 1 h to 24 h
Energy bands	Low / Moderate / High / Extreme, each a quarter of the sensor's 21-bit full scale
Distance accuracy	Reported in 15 discrete steps at a manufacturer-rated accuracy of ±4 km, so a strike can legitimately land in an adjacent band
Display caveats	Both are stated on the display itself. Bearing: the AS3935 measures distance but not bearing. Nothing in the display is placed in a compass direction, because any angle would be invented. This is why the view is a proximity ordering and not a map. Energy: reported "energy" is a relative sensor value for comparing strikes with each other. It is not joules, and it is not calibrated to any physical unit.

Developer
Inteltronics Instrumentation

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WeatherQuery Graphical Data Display.

WeatherQuery is a compact graphical display designer for logged data. It automates the graphical presentation of tabulated data in a flexible, application-specific way, so the end user can navigate through the data to form an impression of it. It presents live and historical weather station observations as clear charts and summary panels for display on a website or dashboard, as seen on our home page.

Display layout	User-designed display layout using graphical components
Graphical components	Chart, Rich Label and Wind Rose
Data export	Page / component captures Scheduled / conditional email reports Served page / component captures Printing
Data sources	Campbell Scientific CR200 and CR10(X) dataloggers, and the Inteltronics Instrumentation Data Collection Platform
File type plugins	Campbell Scientific array and table based file types, and Inteltronics Data Collection Platform file types

Developer
Frederick Le Roux

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