It’s not really the weather we’re interested in here ... the issue is, how you can monitor local conditions from anywhere on the planet.

We installed a small weather station on our roof, and connected it to a tiny web server (the ugly box on the left). The embedded software comes from Phar Lap Software Inc.: their Realtime ETS Kernel, a TCP/IP stack, and an HTTP server.

In our Net Utility Box scenarios we refer to this kind of device as a server client. An example of how the web will be used to make command, control and monitoring functions available globally.