Car as a moving meteorological integrated sensor

Nowadays, common cars are equipped with set of sensors, systems and technologies commonly used to improve car and passengers’ safety and comfort. These cars are often referred to with the innovative conception of “car as a sensor”. A car can be also thought as a moving integrated weather sensor since it can provide meteorological information along specific tracks, exploiting all the information acquired by the installed sensors processed by specific ad-hoc software and technologies. The paper will present an analysis of the sensor installed on car with a panoramic of the software and technologies that can be used to use the car as integrated moving sensor for meteorological purposes, including also some communications techniques. The descriptions of some activities are presented, some technical points are addressed and some examples of applications are reported.