Romilos Weather Station is an educational project with the Arduino microcontroller and Sparkfun’s weather study platform. The aim of the project is to introduce students to the programming of the microcontroller, the creation of basic electronic circuits and the management of the data obtained from the measurements.

The design of the project and the first purchase of equipment was made in 2014 by Athanasios Korakas, Romylos Marmaras and Christos Hytiris. The Project is named after our fellow student Romylos Marmaras who was lost in a car accident in September of the same year.

In 2017 the first phase of the Project was completed with Alexandros – Michael Savannis, Gavril Mellidis and Christos Hytiris where a Desktop Application with JavaFX was created which displays in real time the measurements taken from the Weather Station. More information can be found at https://github.com/ieeesbkastoria/Romilos_WS .

Later Athanasios Korakas created a Javascript application to view the measurements in September 2018 for the project’s promotion at IEEE Day 2018. Information at https://github.com/ieeesbkastoria/Romilos-WS-UI.

In the next phase, Autumn 2018, the Romilos Weather Station was equipped with Waveshare’s MQ gas study sensors and Ethernet Shield. Thus the students using the Ubidots Cloud platform created a Cloud Application to manage and view the measurements in the context of the Internet of things.