How to Measure Wind Speed using Anemometer

In this task, we will figure out how to how to gauge Wind Speed utilizing Anemometer Sensor and Arduino. An anemometer is a gadget utilized for estimating wind speed and direction. It's anything but a typical Weather Station instrument.

In all investigations that include wind speed estimation like meteorology, wind turbines and agribusiness, we need precise wind speed data for dynamic. There are a few kinds of anemometers with medium and significant expenses like cups, hot wire and pitot tubes. The anemometer utilized here is the cup-type anemometer.

The anemometer sensor we are utilizing here is the Adafruit anemometer. The Adafruit anemometer is fit for estimating wind speeds up to 70 m/s or 156 mph which ought to be sufficient for our area. We can interface the Adafruit Anemometer Sensor with Arduino and OLED Display. The sensor will gauge the wind speed in m/s and showcases the worth on OLED Screen. You can change over the wind speed from m/s to miles each hour or kilometer each hour.


Following are the segments that we need for making Wind Speed Measurement Project or Arduino Anemometer Project.

An anemometer is a gadget utilized for estimating wind speed and direction. It is generally utilized for estimating the speed of wind current in the environment, in wind burrows, and in different gas-stream applications. The term is gotten from the Greek word anemos, which means wind, and is utilized to portray any wind speed instrument utilized in meteorology.

The most generally utilized Anemometer for wind-speed estimations is the rotating cup electric anemometer. The rotating cups drive an electric generator. The yield of the generator works an electric meter that is aligned in wind speed. Three-cup anemometers are as of now utilized as the business standard for wind asset appraisal considers and practice.


The cup-type anemometer comprises of 3 or 4 hemispherical cups mounted on flat arms, which were mounted on an upward shaft. The wind stream past the cups in any even direction turned the shaft at a rate that was generally corresponding to the wind speed. Thusly, tallying the turns of the shaft throughout a set time span created a worth relative to the normal wind speed for a wide scope of speeds.

The Adafruit Anemometer Sensor is a Three-cup type anemometer that is equipped for estimating wind speed up to 70m/s or 156mph. It is made out of a shell, the wind cup, and the circuit module.