Weather Readings Mobile Applications
Create mobile solutions requiring temperature, humidity, wind speed and heat stress readings.
Pendragon Forms now provides the ability to capture environmental readings from the Kestrel 5000, Kestrel 5400 and Kestrel DROP series devices and write the data directly into a custom offline mobile solution. Using the Forms interface designer, organizations can rapidly create their mobile solution and sync the data to a centralized source. Mobile device users can collect data offline after downloading forms to their devices.
The captured data can be integrated into a complete mobile workflow by displaying the meter readings, triggering events such as warnings, and more generally be recorded in context with other required mobile data such as GPS readings, photos, and environmental observations.
Import or create the kestrel_5400.pff and/or kestrel_drop.pff forms or see the Optional Scripting tab above to create the form on your own.
Freeze your Kestrel 5400 and/or Kestrel Drop forms and publish the form(s). Synchronize your Android device to receive the form(s). The mobile device can be offline after receiving the forms.
On the Main page of Pendragon Forms on the Android device, tap the Menu button in the upper left corner. Tap Settings. In the Kestrel section of the Settings screen, tap Scan to display a list of Bluetooth devices.
Sync your Android device to receive your form designs. Click the Scan or Scan All button in the form to read and import the values from the Kestrel device.
If you want to customize the scripting manually, depending on your version of the Kestrel 5400, you have up to eight values to scan from your Kestrel 5400. See the product details at https://kestrelmeters.com/products/kestrel-5400-fire-weather-weather-meter-pro-wbgt to see the features available.
To read groups of values from your Kestrel 5400, you can use the following script.
click:
call "KESTRELDEVICE('310')"
scan:
if scandata == 0 then
msgbox "No data?"
else
call "getMeasuredObject('RelativeHumidity','value')"
$[RelativeHumidity] = scandata
call "getMeasuredObject('RelativeHumidity','unit')"
$[unit] = scandata
endif
You can replace the '310' with the groups below to get the values needed. Each group returns all of the values and you can choose which ones to use.
| Reading | Unit |
| WindSpeed | m/s |
| DryBulbTemp | C |
| GlobeTemp | C |
| RelativeHumidity | % |
| StationPressure | mb |
| MagDirection | Degrees |
| AirSpeedValue | m/s |
| Reading | Unit |
| TrueDirection | Degrees |
| AirDensity | kg/m^3 |
| Altitude | m |
| BarometricPressure | mb |
| Crosswind | m/s |
| Headwind | m/s |
| DensityAltitude | m |
| RelativeAirDensity | % |
| Reading | Unit |
| Dewpoint | C |
| HeatIndex | C |
| EvaporationRate | kg/m^2/hr |
| MoistureContent | g/kg |
| TWL | C |
| WBGT | C |
| NAWetBulbTemperature | C |
| PsychroWetBulbTemperature | C |
| WindChill | C |
| Reading | Unit |
| AirFlow | m3/s |
| DeltaT | C |
| HumidityRatio | g/kg |
| TemperatureHumidityIndex | (none) |
| HeatLoadIndex | (none) |
| PredictiveIgnitionIndex | % |
Where you can retrieve multiple groups of data in one form, it is recommended to only have one scan: call across the entire form, as any time a scan occurs, all scan events across the form will fire.
If you want to customize the scripting manually, depending on your version of the Kestrel Drop, you have up to eight values to scan from your Kestrel Drop. See the product details at https://kestrelmeters.com/products/kestrel-drop to see the features available.
To read individual values from your Kestrel Drop, you can use the following script.
click:
call "KESTRELDEVICE_DROP('002')"
scan:
if scandata == 0 then
msgbox "No data?"
else
call "getMeasuredObject('RelativeHumidity','value')"
$[RelativeHumidity] = scandata
call "getMeasuredObject('RelativeHumidity','unit')"
$[unit] = scandata
endif
You can replace the '002' with the value from the table below to get any of the available values from your Kestrel Drop.
| Reading | ID | Unit |
| DryBulbTemp | 001 | C |
| RelativeHumidity | 002 | % |
| HeatLoadIndex | 003 | (none) |
| Dewpoint | 004 | C |
| NAWetBulbTemperature | 005 | C |
| StationPressure | 007 | mb |
| DensityAltitude | 010 | m |
Here are the options available for all versions of the Kestrel Drops. You can use one or as many as your Kestrel Drop can read.
click:
call "KESTRELDEVICE_DROP()"
scan:
if scandata == 0 then
msgbox "No data?"
else
call "getMeasuredObject('DryBulbTemp','value')"
$[DryBulbTempAll] = scandata
call "getMeasuredObject('DryBulbTemp','unit')"
$[DryBulbTempUnit] = scandata
call "getMeasuredObject('RelativeHumidity','value')"
$[RelativeHumidityAll] = scandata
call "getMeasuredObject('RelativeHumidity','unit')"
$[RelativeHumidityUnit] = scandata
call "getMeasuredObject('HeatLoadIndex','value')"
$[HeatLoadIndexAll] = scandata
call "getMeasuredObject('Dewpoint','value')"
$[DewpointAll] = scandata
call "getMeasuredObject('Dewpoint','unit')"
$[DewpointUnit] = scandata
call "getMeasuredObject('StationPressure','value')"
$[StationPressureAll] = scandata
call "getMeasuredObject('StationPressure','unit')"
$[StationPressureUnit] = scandata
call "getMeasuredObject('DensityAltitude','value')"
$[DensityAltitudeAll] = scandata
call "getMeasuredObject('DensityAltitude','unit')"
$[DensityAltitudeUnit] = scandata
call "getMeasuredObject('NAWetBulbTemperature','value')"
$[NAWetBulbTemperatureAll] = scandata
call "getMeasuredObject('NAWetBulbTemperature','unit')"
$[NAWetBulbTemperatureUnit] = scandata
endif
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