“The [Integrated Science Education Initiative] ISEI program maintains three weather stations that collect meteorological data and transmit it to [St. Lawrence University] every fifteen minutes. The stations are placed in three distinct environments around Canton, NY; one in an open field near the ESL House [68], one in a wooded environment on the Little River Nature Area [woods] and the other approximately 5 miles south of campus on Waterman Hill [waterman].”- http://www.stlawu.edu/isei/rtwd.html

"TOA5","waterman","","","","","","Hourly""TIMESTAMP","RECORD","BP_mb","AirTC_AVG","RH","WS_kph_AVG","WS_kph_S_WVT","WindDir_D1_WVT","WindDir_SD1_WVT","WS_kph_MAX","WS_kph_Time_MAX","Rain_mm_TOT","VW","Solar_Wm2_AVG","TdC_AVG","WC_C_AVG“,"TS","RN","","","","","","","","","","","","","","""","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","""2006-03-06 15:00:00",0,991,-0.958,43,8.06,8.06,13.8,95.9,17.85,"2006-03-06 14:55:40.375",0,0.511,501.2,-11.89,-3.616"2006-03-06 16:00:00",1,991,-1.02,42.6,9.01,9.01,24.28,102.8,16.44,"2006-03-06 15:21:40.375",0,0.511,399.3,-12.23,-4.055"2006-03-06 17:00:00",2,992,-1.321,50.58,7.109,7.109,16.05,73.23,16.09,"2006-03-06 16:49:35.375",0,0.51,206.9,-11.68,-3.629

Collected data is transmitted to the LoggerNet program.

“RDBMS - A database management system (DBMS) with the ability to access data organized in tabular files that can be related to each other by a common field. An RDBMS has the capability to recombine the data items from different files, providing powerful tools for data usage.” - web2.gov.mb.ca/mli/glossary/m_z.html

LoggerNet runs a batch file.The batch file executes a PHP file.The PHP file automatically populates the MySQL database.

A Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) is used to better manage the data.

mysql> SELECT * FROM watermanh;

+--------------------------+----------+----------+----------------+-----+------------------+| TIMESTAMP         | Record | BP_mb | AirTC_AVG | RH | WS_kph_AVG |+--------------------------+----------+----------+----------------+-----+------------------+| 2007-04-09 12:56:02 |     33 |     2 |         3 |  4 |          5 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

+----------------------+-----------------------+-------------------------+-------------------+|WS_kph_S_WVT | WindDir_D1_WVT | WindDir_SD1_WVT | WS_kph_MAX | +----------------------+-----------------------+-------------------------+-------------------+|            6 |          7 | 8 |  9 |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

+--------------------------+-------------------+-------+----------------------+-------------+----------------+| WS_kph_Time_MAX | Rain_mm_TOT | VW | Solar_Wm2_AVG | TdC_AVG | WC_C_AVG |+--------------------------+-------------------+-------+----------------------+-------------+----------------+| 04:13:01         |           11 | 12 |            13 |      14 |       15 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Conclusion: Administrators and everyday users will benefit from this new relational database since it will improve the visibility and increase the accessibility of data through the use of tables which can be merged, updated, and archived much better than the previous primitive system which had to be updated manually. In the future, a website can be generated with the MySQL database information using PHP, MySQL, and html. I have written and included a manual to assist in the use of the MySQL database and some general code for a printer-friendly style sheet (CSS). I have also trained the current system’s manager in basic MySQL commands.

$q = 'INSERT INTO ' . $table . ' VALUES (';for ($i = 0; $i != $array_size; ++$i) { if ($i == 0 ) { $q .= $info_array[$i]; } else { // MUST USE .= !!!!! $q .= ", " . $info_array[$i]; }}$q .= ')';

An example of the PHP code:

An example MySQL command and corresponding table:

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