Whether a photovoltaic power station generates electricity or not depends not only on the components and inverters, but also on environmental data such as radiation, temperature, wind speed, humidity, and air pressure. Radiation data can reflect the potential of regional solar energy resources, providing a basis for site selection and capacity design. Temperature, humidity, and wind speed can evaluate heat dissipation conditions, help prevent efficiency degradation caused by component overheating, and assist in identifying local hotspots. Component temperature can also guide cleaning, maintenance, and troubleshooting. After adjusting operation and maintenance strategies based on meteorological station data, large-scale ground power stations have increased their annual power generation by about 2.3%. However, traditional meteorological stations are often bulky, cumbersome to install, and have poor portability, making it difficult to meet the needs of temporary monitoring, multi-point rotation, emergency monitoring, mobile inspections, etc. Therefore, portable meteorological stations have gradually attracted the attention of users in power plant operation and maintenance, outdoor engineering, agriculture, and environmental monitoring. Common choices in the market include IoT weather station solutions such as Suzhou LAILX, Lexus LXH506, and Juying Electronics, as well as various fixed photovoltaic weather stations. Different products are suitable for different scenarios. Portable weather station

LXH506 is a portable meteorological station launched by LAILX in Suzhou. It focuses on multi parameter integration, high-precision monitoring, portability, easy deployment, and all-weather stable operation. It can monitor environmental temperature, relative humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind speed, wind direction, solar radiation, rainfall and other parameters in real time. It is suitable for environmental monitoring of photovoltaic power plants, outdoor engineering meteorological observation, agricultural field monitoring, scenic area environmental monitoring, scientific research meteorological data collection and other scenarios. Compared with multiple single function devices, it can reduce procurement and operation costs, and also reduce data deviation of multiple devices. The equipment is equipped with high-precision digital sensors, optimized through calibration algorithms, and has strong resistance to interference such as dust, water vapor, and airflow disturbances. The wind speed and direction sensor adopts a low damping structure, which can capture light and weak wind signals. The irradiation sensor can collect solar radiation data, providing environmental data support for component power generation efficiency evaluation and power station performance analysis. Portability is a prominent advantage of LXH506, which is lightweight, modular, integrated, compact in structure, equipped with portable brackets and storage bags. It can be carried and transported by a single person without the need for complex wiring and professional construction equipment. After opening the box, it can be quickly assembled, suitable for temporary monitoring, multi-point rotation, emergency weather monitoring, and mobile inspection. It can also be deployed in mountainous, desert, coastal, rooftop, field and other environments. In terms of endurance and durability, the equipment is equipped with a large capacity removable lithium battery, which supports solar assisted power replenishment. When fully charged, it can continuously monitor for more than 72 hours all day. The whole machine is made of three proof materials, which are dust-proof, waterproof, sun resistant, anti-aging, and wind erosion resistant. It can work in the environment of -30 ℃ to 60 ℃, and is suitable for long-term outdoor unattended monitoring. In terms of data management, the built-in storage can automatically and continuously save data, supporting real-time viewing, historical queries, batch exports, and data traceability. The supporting analysis software can generate meteorological reports and trend curves, helping to support power plant power generation prediction, outdoor construction safety assessment, agricultural meteorological guidance, and environmental quality assessment.

Fixed photovoltaic weather stations can usually monitor data such as tilt radiation, total radiation, direct radiation, scattered radiation, reflected radiation, sunshine hours, wind speed and direction, temperature and humidity, air pressure, component temperature, etc. They use a pole structure to reduce sensor interference, integrate solar panels and energy storage batteries for power supply, and upload them to the cloud through 4G, making them suitable for long-term fixed monitoring. IoT photovoltaic weather stations such as Juying Electronics can integrate elements such as wind direction, wind speed, air temperature and humidity, light intensity, air pressure, carbon dioxide, etc., making them suitable for scenarios that require IoT display. However, fixed stations are not suitable for frequent point changes, and there is insufficient flexibility during temporary inspections, mobile patrols, and emergency investigations. If the demand is for rapid deployment, multi-point comparison, temporary assessment of radiation and environmental impact, LXH506 is more suitable. If it is for long-term fixed operation monitoring of power plants, fixed photovoltaic weather stations can be considered, or a combination of fixed and portable stations can be used, with one responsible for long-term trends and the other responsible for on-site review and anomaly investigation.

Portable weather station