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Regional mesonets

Building accurate weather networks is no small feat—especially when spatial gaps threaten the reliability of your models and the decisions they drive. In weather networks, wide distances between stations can miss localized variability, leading to costly missteps in planning, resource management, and public safety. The strength of your model depends on how well you measure what’s really happening on the ground. METER makes it easy to scale your network and close spatial gaps with rugged, research-grade sensors for both soil and atmosphere. Designed for long-term deployment across large regions, our systems let you collect, process, visualize, and share real-time data from anywhere—and integrate seamlessly with broader networks via robust API connectivity.

Weather monitoring

When you're managing a weather mesonet, every node counts—and downtime isn’t an option. You need stations that are easy to deploy, dependable over time, and ready to start streaming data fast. METER’s all-in-one weather stations are built for speed and simplicity—install in under 15 minutes and start transmitting data via cellular, Wi-Fi, or data logger depending on your setup. Whether you’re building out coverage or filling in spatial gaps, our systems make expanding your network easy—and your data rock-solid.

Soil moisture

Weather data tells part of the story—but without soil moisture, the picture is incomplete. For mesonets supporting wildfire prediction, flood forecasting, or hydrologic modeling, understanding how water moves through the system means knowing both volumetric water content (VWC) and water potential. METER makes it easy to pair research-grade soil moisture sensors with your atmospheric network, giving you a complete, system-level view of moisture dynamics—so you can deliver deeper insight, improve model accuracy, and better serve your community.

API connection

Running a mesonet means delivering data that’s not just accurate—but accessible, flexible, and ready to power decisions at scale. With ZENTRA Cloud’s REST and Push API options, you can stream high-quality environmental data directly into your own systems—fast, securely, and without custom workarounds. Seamlessly integrate with modeling tools, visualization platforms, or internal databases—so every data point goes further, faster.

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ZENTRA System

Customize your data collection and logging solution by combining multiple METER sensors with the ZL6 Data Logger and ZENTRA Cloud. ZENTRA stores your data in the cloud, allowing easy access to your data and near-real-time reports from all of your data loggers.

Avoid costly field visits by accessing your data from any web-connected device. Analyze it with ZENTRA Cloud’s built-in visualization tools, and easily share insights without tracking down log files on individual computers.

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"For [our purposes] these METER [weather] stations are quite extraordinary. All our stations have the ATMOS. We’re getting solar radiation, lightning counts with the precipitation, RH, temperature, windspeed and direction...not just the water balance, but the energy balance. That’s what these new systems can provide us."
Mesonet Development Manager Kevin Hyde, PhD | Montana Climate Office

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