Waggle Sensor Plug-In for the uSonic-3 CLASS-A MP

The Sonic 3D provides observations of 3 wind components x, y, z and acoustic temperature T at sampling rate up to 50 Hz..

Waggle Sensor Information

The Sonic utilzies an RS-485 serial connection to transmit data.

Therefore, to determine which port the instrument is plugged into, PySerial offers a handy toollist to list all serial ports currnetly in use.

python -m serial.tools.list_ports

The default serial settings for the RS-485 interface are:

1. Baud Rate = 57600
2. Data Bits = 8
3. Parity = None
4. Stop Bits = 1

Below is a sample of the ASCII formatted data string transmitted from the instrument. It is in the format status;x;y;z;T;vel;dir;vels;dirs

1B010000322000000300100000000000;-0.015;0.053;0.062;16.486;0.055;164.451;0.055;1

Similar to the Vaisala AQT530 plugin a docker container will be setup via Makefile

make build

make deploy

make run

import sage_data_client

df = sage_data_client.query(start="2023-07-09T00:00:00Z",
                            end="2023-07-09T01:00:00Z", 
                            filter={
                                "plugin": "10.31.81.1:5000/local/waggle-sonic3d",
                                "vsn": "W039",
                                "sensor": "metek-sonic3D"
                            }
)

Check out a basic Cookbook for more details.