Hybrid Station Extension

Make your physical METOS station a “Hybrid”

Upgrade your METOS station and take it a step further with the Hybrid Weather Station Extension (HSE).

By adding virtual
sensors, you gain access to critical environmental data like solar radiation,
wind speed, and more, without the need for physical sensors. This gives
you the flexibility to monitor your crops more efficiently.

About the product

With HSE, the following sensors are added:

Air temperature (virtual)
Relative humidity (virtual)
Leaf wetness (virtual)
Precipitation (virtual)
Wind speed avg (virtual)
Wind speed gust (virtual)
Wind direction (virtual)
Global solar radiation (virtual)
Soil temperature (virtual)

The virtual sensors are added to the chart and table in FieldClimate, together with the physical sensors, but are properly differentiated.

The service is available with yearly subscription – for just a fraction of the price of physical sensors!

Key benefits

Hybrid station is the perfect solution to expand any physical METOS station at low price.
Get access to advanced tools like Disease models, ETo.
Virtual sensors are shown together with the physical sensors, but differentiated.

Where does virtual data come from?

Virtual sensor data quality is the same as our other product METOS VWS (Virtual Weather Station) and comes from the best available weather simulation for the specific location.

Various weather models are incorporated, which in turn are calculated from data measured by weather stations, observation data from satellites, and a number of other data sources.

For locations with a nearby weather station, the station’s data are automatically used to further improve the quality.

The precipitation virtual data is updated using radar data (if available) and satellite data is used to update the data for cloud cover and global solar radiation.