Automatic cleaning mechanism for rain guage

Abstract

This project approaches the cleaning mechanism of rain guage mesh is being automated due to intense need of cleaning the mesh which is installed or which is the part of the tipping bucket rain guage. The rain guage used in the INDIAN METEOROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT (IMD), Pune uses various types of rain guage in our project we have choosen tipping bucket remote recording rain guage. As the method used for cleaning of the mesh was completely manual & the time duration for cleaning the mesh was once in a month & due to manual procedure of cleaning manual errors was also included. So we have converted the complete cleaning method in to automatic method, so the method is effortless. The automatic cleaning mechanism includes camera for capturing images which will be compared with each other 1) without dirt 2) with dirt after comparison we will detect whether the cleaning is required or not. This method will make the system decisive for cleaning purpose. Till now, this is only the method which will clean the rain guage automatically. Our contribution towards this project was finding the solution for making the cleaning mechanism automatic.