DataTurbine was deployed and brought online to stream data from a meteorology station that is deployed at La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica to the University of Kansas in early March. This work was done as a collaboration between James Beach and Ankit Agarwal of the University of Kansas and members of the Open-Source DataTurbine Initiative team at the University of California, San Diego. Ankit worked on-site at La Selva to deploy DataTurbine with support from the Open-Source DataTurbine Initiative team. The team at San Diego worked with Ankit by guiding the deployment and developing custom DataTurbine driver software for a pilot system to acquire real-time data through DataTurbine from a Campbell CR3000 datalogger. This CR3000 serves to log data streams from an array of sensors that includes:

• Kipp & Zonen, PARLITE
• Pyranometer Sensor
• Sunshine sensor
• Soil volumetric water content
• Soil temperature probe
• Relative Humidity-Air temperature
• RM Young Wind Monitor
• Tipping Rain gauge
• Barometric Pressure Sensor

The production data acquisition system for which this prototype is a pilot is expected to be in place at the end of summer '08.

Here are some photos from La Selva Biological Station:
http://dataturbine.org/content/la-selva-biological-station