ABSTRACT

Weather forecasting is essential for people due to its roles—preparedness, mitigation, and
adaptation—in monitoring conditions within the atmosphere. Furthermore, due to the inevitable
changes of weather condition that need to be forecasted, the quantity of automatic weather stations
is oddly distributed and infrequent to provide information over the entire Philippine archipelago
(PAGASA, 2017).AnitunTabu: Automated Microweather Station is fabricated to mitigate, adapt, and
prepare the community for contemporary weather conditions. This instrument aims to provide real-
time information to urban and rural areas. AnitunTabu can measure weather parameters such as air
pressure, air temperature, wind speed, relative humidity, wind direction, rain amount, UV index, and
river water level. It uses Wireless Module for data transmission and it has SD card module for data
storage. An Arduino Software IDE v1.8.3 was used as a software-programming tool. Calibration
Simulator Chamber was used to evaluate the pressure, temperature, humidity, and wind speed
sensor. Measurements made by AnitunTabu are relatively similar to the capacity made by PAGASA
using Percentage Error Analysis. At 5% level of significance, the median of weather parameters—air
pressure, air temperature, humidity and wind speed—obtained by standard PAGASA devices are not
statistically significant different to the median of measurements made by the fabricated AnitunTabu. It
is concluded that AnitunTabu is a low cost and portable weather station, which is beneficial in both
urban and rural areas. Moreover, it is accurate as commercially available automated weather stations
in transmitting weather updates for disaster mitigation.
Key terms: Arduino, sensor, calibration, automated, AnitunTabu