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What does the soon mandatory RoHS certification mean for Lufft products?

Up to now RoHS wasn't mandatory for us, because we were affected by an exception rule concerning monitoring and control instruments. This exception will end on July 22, 2017 meaning...
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Safety vs. Environment Protection: Study Discovers Increasing Salt Levels in Lakes

A recent study published by the US-American National Academy of Sciences revealed an increasing chloride amount in rural and urban freshwater lakes around the American continent. The scientists believe, that...
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Big Data: It’s all about the strategy

Big Data, a huge amount of data, is a challenge for researchers and analysts. Although the data sets can lead to many new insights after the evaluation, it makes the...
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Large Solar System in South Africa Monitored by WS600 All-in-One Weather Sensor

The largest solar farm in the Southern Hemisphere is situated in the Emthanjeni Municipality, South Africa and has a size of 100 hectares. It's monitored, amongst others, by a WS600...
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New Lufft Weather Station in Chile helps to prevent wildfires

In January 2017, forest fires in southern and central Chile were raging for more than two weeks. Eleven people were killed in the flames. In order to enhance preventive measures...
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Watch the On-Demand Webinar Now! Hydromet Cloud Introduction

Hydromet Cloud is an evolved yet simple Secure Web-Based Data Hosting Solution capable of retrieving data from remote field stations and delivering information to you anywhere in world. See how...
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QUALITY ASSURANCE AND QUALITY CONTROL TECHNICAL NOTE

Download the Quality Assurance and Quality Control Technical Note Now! The primary activities taken to assure and control data quality are aptly called quality assurance and quality control. Determining the...
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New from Lufft: The laser-based snow depth sensor SHM31

In future, one of our new products will support weather services, road operators, operators of winter sport areas and energy producers in the field of environmental monitoring: The SHM31 is...
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Location, Location, Location: Choosing the Right Telemetry Method for Your Remote Water Monitoring Applications

Because of the remote locations and naturally harsh environments of many water resources, monitoring and communicating the resulting data is not always simple or straightforward. Telemetry is an automated process...
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Lifesaving weather warnings thanks to professional visibility sensors

The new Lufft visibility sensor VS20k is now officially available. But what distinguishes it from the previous model and for which applications is it suitable? In the following article, you...
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