Drone Weather Monitoring System

A weather data monitoring system for drone operations: multi-source aggregation, flyability assessment, and threshold alerts.

Background

A Zhengzhou drone service team running crop-spraying and inspection jobs relied on manual weather checks — wind speed, precipitation, and visibility judged by experience. Last-minute cancellations caused real losses.

Solution

Built on ThinkPHP 8, scheduled tasks aggregate multiple weather data sources and compute a flyability index per operation site. Threshold breaches trigger alerts via WeChat official-account template messages; a Vue console manages sites and thresholds.

Key Features

  • Scheduled multi-source weather aggregation
  • Flyability index per operation site
  • Wind/precipitation/visibility threshold alerts
  • Official-account template message push
  • Operation planning with a weather calendar
  • Multi-site coordinates with geo-fence management
  • Historical weather replay for post-mission review
  • Automatic failover between weather data sources
  • Visually tunable flyability algorithm parameters

Results

The team now checks the system before each workday instead of guessing the sky. Weather misjudgment — and the wasted trips and cancellations it caused — dropped significantly, making job scheduling far more relaxed.

Project Info

Industry
Drones & Weather
Project Type
Custom Development
Delivered
2025-03
Tech Stack
ThinkPHP 8 Vue Scheduled Tasks MySQL
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