LoRaWAN® 6-in-1 Weather Station

A compact outdoor station that measures the weather at one spot — rainfall, wind speed and direction, air temperature, humidity and barometric pressure — and sends the readings over LoRaWAN® radio, kilometres to a gateway, on solar power or site DC. The MacSync LWS X2 is Macnman's: six readings from one head on one pole, with threshold alerts and setup from a phone.

From the datasheet: rainfall 0–200 mm/h at ±0.2 mm/h from an optical sensor; wind speed 0–60 m/s at ±(0.3 + 0.03V) m/s; wind direction 0–359.9° at ±3° below 10 m/s; air temperature −40 to +85 °C at ±0.3 °C; relative humidity 0–100 % at ±3 % RH; barometric pressure 500–1,100 hPa at ±0.5 hPa. It does not measure solar radiation, UV or leaf wetness.

In the plain sense, yes: an automatic weather station is an unattended station that measures and records weather continuously, and the LWS X2 does that on solar power with no one on site. In the procurement sense, an AWS usually means a 10 m mast with separate calibrated instruments and a logger, often with solar radiation and soil sensors and calibration certificates. The LWS X2 is the compact station for many points between those; the table on this page sets the two side by side.

No conformity is claimed. India's WINDS programme, per the Cabinet release of January 2025, places an AWS at block level and an automatic rain gauge at panchayat level through accredited agencies; IMD validates its stations against co-located observatories. The LWS X2 is the microclimate instrument for the farm block, the drain, the plant or the ward between those stations, and Macnman does not present it as IMD-, WINDS- or PMFBY-grade. Where an official record is required, it sits beside the reference station, not instead of it.

In between them. The national network, as the Cabinet release describes it, aims at one AWS per block and one rain gauge per panchayat for forecasts, advisories and crop insurance. A block is many farms and a panchayat many fields; a plantation, a drain or a solar plant needs its own readings at its own pole. That is the LWS X2's place: a ring of compact stations for operational decisions, with the official record coming from the network.

Yes to both, as for any weather station. Mount the pole plumb: tilt biases rain and wind readings on every compact head. Point the head's direction reference to north and check the live wind direction in the Maya app before leaving; wind direction is only as good as that alignment.

Frost alerts, yes: a temperature threshold on the station, or a rule on your platform combining temperature, humidity and wind. Evapotranspiration models need solar radiation as well, which the LWS X2 does not measure; pair it with a radiation sensor read through the MacSync 4–20 mA converter, or use a reference station's radiation with the LWS X2's local temperature, humidity and wind.

For wind, rain and ambient conditions at the O&M level, yes, on the 9–36 V DC variant from the plant's own supply. The plant's performance-ratio station under IEC 61724-1 needs irradiance and module temperature, which the LWS X2 does not measure; it pairs with a pyranometer on the MacSync 4–20 mA converter, and Macnman claims no IEC 61724-1 class for it.

A station that measures the weather where a decision is made — this block, this drain, this rooftop — rather than the regional value a forecast or a distant observatory gives. Rain, frost and wind vary over a few hundred metres; a ring of compact LoRaWAN stations on one gateway is how a farm, an estate or a city sees that variation.

Any LoRaWAN® gateway on the right band works; the station joins the network server, not the gateway. Macnman's MacLink Gen-2 outdoor and Setu X1 indoor gateways are the usual pairing in India because they ship on IN865 with the same support, and ChirpStack can run on the MacLink itself.

Yes. The network server you run — ChirpStack, The Things Network or another — exposes the decoded readings over MQTT and HTTPS integrations and its own API, so the station's data reaches your application, a farm platform, SCADA or an ICCC without a Macnman platform in the path.

Four lines, and the station is only one: the number of points, which depends on how much the weather varies across the site; solar or DC power at each pole; the gateway, usually one per site plus one for a far corner; and the integration into the platform you run. Send the site list and we quote the system rather than a device in isolation.

Yes. Two published case studies — a LoRaWAN weather station for smart farming and yield protection, and a weather station installation for smart-city environmental monitoring — are linked on this page, with the hardware and the data path described.

It reads rain intensity from the optical signature of drops on the sensor, with no bucket to tip, clog or level, so it keeps working through dust, leaves and long dry spells, and it reads heavy rain up to 200 mm/h. A tipping bucket is the reference method for totals and is what observatories use. For many operational points, optical; for the one official total per site, a reference gauge; the page's rain table shows the trade-off.

The datasheet states the range (0–200 mm/h) and accuracy (±0.2 mm/h) but does not state a resolution for the optical rain reading, so this page does not quote one. The rain classification and intensity are reported in every uplink.

The datasheet states the wind figures — 0–60 m/s, ±(0.3 + 0.03V) m/s, direction to ±3° — but does not name the wind sensing method, so this page does not claim one; the wind-method table above explains the two methods generically. Ask us for the engineering detail for a tender.

Standard meteorological practice measures temperature and humidity at about 1.5 to 2 m and wind at 10 m over open ground. A compact station is usually mounted at 2 to 3 m on one plumb pole, clear of buildings and trees — as a rule of thumb ten times the obstacle height for wind — and away from heat-reflecting surfaces. Point the head's direction reference north and check the live wind direction in the Maya app; keep the height the same across sites.

It ships with the datasheet accuracies and no field calibration procedure is published, so the practical check is a comparison: for the first weeks compare rainfall totals and temperature against the nearest reference gauge or observatory and note the offset, then repeat each season. Macnman does not claim a traceability certificate for the LWS X2.

The LoRaWAN variants run on a 20 W solar panel with an 8,000 mAh rechargeable battery (9210) or on 9–36 V DC from the site (9211), so neither needs a battery change. The datasheet's 19 Ah battery figures — about 2, 4 and 7+ years at 5, 15 and 60-minute reports — apply to the BLE variant (9214). The panel needs open sky; under canopy or on a shaded wall, take the DC variant.

Sampling is configurable from 1 minute to 24 hours and the reporting interval is set independently; every 10 or 15 minutes is the usual station setting. Threshold alerts on rain intensity, wind speed, temperature, humidity and pressure report the moment a limit is crossed, so a crane wind limit or a flood-cell rain threshold arrives within the sampling interval rather than at the next scheduled uplink.

Kilometres, depending on terrain, canopy and antenna height. The station transmits at 23 dBm with −137 dBm sensitivity on LoRaWAN®; a MacLink Gen-2 gateway on a roof typically covers an estate, a ward or a plant. The coverage calculator gives a first estimate and the Maya app's Ping test confirms each pole.

One per management unit where the weather differs: per block or group of blocks on a farm, per section on an estate, per catchment or ward in a city, one per solar plant with a second at the far end of a large one. Rain and frost vary over short distances; wind and pressure less so. A pilot of two or three stations on the sites that behave differently settles the count.

Yes. The LWS X2 joins any LoRaWAN® v1.0.4 network server — ChirpStack, The Things Network, Orbiwise, Netmore, MQTT platforms or a private LNS — by OTAA with pre-loaded keys, and the readings reach your farm platform, SCADA, flood cell or ICCC over MQTT or HTTPS. There is no mandatory Macnman cloud and no subscription.

IN865 for India, plus RU864, EU868, US915, AU915, KR920 and AS923, set when ordering. LoRaWAN in India uses the delicensed 865–867 MHz band, so a farm, a city or a plant runs its own gateway without a spectrum licence; the device is WPC compliant and RoHS conforming.

The station needs a gateway within range; the gateway needs a backhaul — usually one SIM or the site's broadband, not one per station. ChirpStack can run on the gateway itself, so readings and alerts keep working on site when the backhaul drops and sync when it returns. The MacTalk variants act on a MacSet controller with no gateway at all.

Yes, through a controller on the same network. A MacSet LX1 switches an alarm, a valve or a pump on the threshold the platform sends it, and the MacTalk variants (9212, 9213) talk device to device to a MacSet with no gateway, so a wind limit can stop a hoist on a site with no network at all.

The LWS X1 is the five-in-one: the same wind speed and direction, temperature, humidity and pressure specifications without the optical rain sensor. Choose it where rainfall is already measured by a reference gauge or is not the question; choose the LWS X2 where rain matters, which on most farms, drains and dams it does.

Yes, the MacSync LORS X1 LoRaWAN optical rain sensor: rainfall intensity to 200 mm/h equivalent and a rain class from 0 to 3, on a 19 Ah battery or solar. It is the device for many rainfall points cheaply — catchments, drains, irrigation credit — with its datasheet on the documentation site.

No. The six readings are rain, wind speed, wind direction, temperature, humidity and pressure. Evapotranspiration models need solar radiation as well; pair the station with a radiation sensor read through a MacSync converter, or use a reference station's radiation value with the LWS X2's local temperature, humidity and wind.

The enclosure is UV-resistant glass-filled nylon, IP65 as standard with an IP67 option, rated from −40 to +80 °C; the optical rain sensor has no bucket to clog or seize. Mount the head level and clear of standing water; keep the dome and the panel clean.

The MacSync LX1 RS485 to LoRaWAN converter reads a Modbus weather sensor and sends it over the same network, so an existing head can join a ring of LWS X2 stations. Where the project wants one unit per pole with no wiring, the integrated station is the simpler system.

The six readings — rainfall, wind speed, wind direction, temperature, humidity, pressure — with the battery or supply status, in an AES-128 encrypted LoRaWAN® uplink, periodic or on a threshold event. Decoding is documented with the product; tell us your network server and we send the decoder for it.

The data is yours. The station sends to your own network server and from there to the farm platform, SCADA, flood cell or ICCC you choose, over MQTT or HTTPS. Macnman supplies the hardware, the documentation and the decoder, not a mandatory cloud.

Set a plumb pole in the open, fix the head level on top facing north, and the transmitter and solar panel below it with the bracket and zip ties; the DC variant wires to the site's 9–36 V supply. Pair over Bluetooth with the Maya app to set the intervals, the alert limits and the LoRaWAN class, check the live wind direction, run a Ping to confirm the gateway, and the device joins by OTAA. No mast, no trench, no laptop.

The MacSync LWS X2 station, the user manual, the warranty card and mounting screws and hardware. The industrial mounting bracket, the IP68 cable extender and a power adapter are optional accessories ordered separately; the solar variant ships with its 20 W panel.

Yes. Readings reach the ICCC over MQTT or HTTPS from your network server, and a rain-intensity threshold reports within the sampling interval. Paired with ultrasonic level sensors on the drains and a MacSet at the pumping station, the city sees the cloudburst forming and acts on it.

Yes. The MacSync LWS X2 is designed and manufactured in Pune, Maharashtra. It is WPC compliant for the IN865 band and conforms to RoHS; the datasheet states both. No meteorological conformity is claimed.

The list of sites with what decides the day at each (rain, wind, frost or all six), whether there is power at the pole or open sky for solar, whether a LoRaWAN gateway and network server already exist, whether a controller must act on the reading, and the platform the data should reach. With that we confirm the variants, the count and the gateway position.

Yes, and it is the recommended way in: two or three LWS X2 stations on the sites that behave differently, one gateway, your own network server, through one monsoon or one season, with a reference gauge beside one of them. The pilot kit on this site is that set; the rest of the ring joins the same gateway afterwards.