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Next Generation Optical Rain Gauge
Next Generation Optical Rain Gauge
TruMet PW100 is an infrared optical rain gauge that delivers a modern, low-maintenance alternative to tipping buckets.
Gill’s TruMet PW100 Optical Rain Gauge is meticulously engineered to overcome these long-standing challenges, ensuring true reliability and precision.
A new approach to rainfall measurement
The TruMet PW100 uses a solid-state optical measurement principle rather than mechanical collection. LEDs (light-emitting diodes) create a beam of light across a defined sensing area, and a receiver monitors interruptions in the beam caused by rainfall.
By analysing the size and velocity of droplets, the system accurately measures rainfall accumulation and filters out non-rain interference, such as insects or debris.
With no moving parts, collection funnel, or tipping mechanism, the infrared optical rain gauge delivers accuracy equal to that of traditional tipping buckets, but without the mechanical parts that can fail, reducing maintenance and long-term costs.
Designed for modern monitoring challenges
The TruMet PW100 provides reliable rainfall measurement at a lower lifetime cost, with less complexity or servicing than traditional or specialist instruments.
Typical applications include:
- meteorological and hydrological networks
- flood forecasting and early-warning systems
- smart city and urban drainage monitoring
- transport, aviation and infrastructure operations
- renewable energy and environmental monitoring
By minimising routine maintenance, TruMet PW100 Optical Rain Gauge lowers ownership costs and improves data reliability for widely distributed networks.
Seamless integration with existing networks
At launch, TruMet Optical Rain Gauge outputs the standard pulse signal (an electronic output used by weather equipment) that tipping bucket rain gauges use, so it can be deployed as a direct replacement within existing monitoring networks without system changes or retraining.
Software and hardware updates will further expand the optical rain gauge’s capabilities and data options.
The TruMet PW100 Optical Rain Gauge will be available both as:
- a standalone rainfall sensor, and
- an integrated option within Gif’s MaxiMet product line, including the upcoming GMX603, which incorporates the optical rainfall technology into a compact weather station (an instrument that measures multiple meteorological parameters) for best-in-class meteorological monitoring in a single instrument.
Next Generation Optical Rain Gauge
TruMet PW100 is an infrared optical rain gauge that delivers a modern, low-maintenance alternative to tipping buckets.
Gill’s TruMet PW100 Optical Rain Gauge is meticulously engineered to overcome these long-standing challenges, ensuring true reliability and precision.
A new approach to rainfall measurement
The TruMet PW100 uses a solid-state optical measurement principle rather than mechanical collection. LEDs (light-emitting diodes) create a beam of light across a defined sensing area, and a receiver monitors interruptions in the beam caused by rainfall.
By analysing the size and velocity of droplets, the system accurately measures rainfall accumulation and filters out non-rain interference, such as insects or debris.
With no moving parts, collection funnel, or tipping mechanism, the infrared optical rain gauge delivers accuracy equal to that of traditional tipping buckets, but without the mechanical parts that can fail, reducing maintenance and long-term costs.
Designed for modern monitoring challenges
The TruMet PW100 provides reliable rainfall measurement at a lower lifetime cost, with less complexity or servicing than traditional or specialist instruments.
Typical applications include:
- meteorological and hydrological networks
- flood forecasting and early-warning systems
- smart city and urban drainage monitoring
- transport, aviation and infrastructure operations
- renewable energy and environmental monitoring
By minimising routine maintenance, TruMet PW100 Optical Rain Gauge lowers ownership costs and improves data reliability for widely distributed networks.
Seamless integration with existing networks
At launch, TruMet Optical Rain Gauge outputs the standard pulse signal (an electronic output used by weather equipment) that tipping bucket rain gauges use, so it can be deployed as a direct replacement within existing monitoring networks without system changes or retraining.
Software and hardware updates will further expand the optical rain gauge’s capabilities and data options.
The TruMet PW100 Optical Rain Gauge will be available both as:
- a standalone rainfall sensor, and
- an integrated option within Gif’s MaxiMet product line, including the upcoming GMX603, which incorporates the optical rainfall technology into a compact weather station (an instrument that measures multiple meteorological parameters) for best-in-class meteorological monitoring in a single instrument.
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