Columbia Weather Systems

  Over the past few months, hackers have attacked municipal water systems across the country, targeting the programmable logic controllers (PLCs), that run pumps and valves controlling water flow.  Weather monitoring equipment often sits on these same industrial networks, connected to the PLCs and SCADA systems these advisories are warning about.  While we are not aware of any attacks involving our equipment, CWS president Nader Khoury provides some tips on how to keep your weather station secure, so that it does not become a system vulnerability. Read more here: https://columbiaweather.com/resources/protecting-against-cyberattacks/

Nader and Martha representing at Met Tech … can you guess where?

We discovered on LinkedIn that Stern Power Solar Systems recently kicked off an interesting project including a Magellan MX501™ weather station from Columbia Weather Systems. Uwe Schaible, Stern’s co-founder and CTO, told us a bit more about it: The project We are doing a one-year trial with the DFO (Canadian Department of Fisheries and Ocean) where they are testing the different configurations of our product line. The intent is to supply continuous power for remote monitoring and surveillance in unserviced locations, which is of particular interest to the DFO. The installation The purpose of this installation is to demonstrate the ability to continuously power monitoring equipment (in this case a weather station) and transmit the data to the cloud using a satellite ISP. This system is currently fully operational. Why we chose Columbia Weather Systems We picked the CWS product because of the form factor, power draw, and the company’s North American origin. Read more here: https://colum...