WeatherXM CEO and CTO -AMA September 2022

Manos, WeatherXM CEO and Nikos, WeatherXM CTO answer your questions about all things WeatherXM.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
00:09 Quick overview
00:40 What about shipping
01:17 M5 revision
02:32 What's the status with helium?
06:21 New versions of hardware
07:05 Q1: I live in what is called a snow belt I have bought a station but I am worried about the harsh winters. Is there going to be replacement parts in case something does break?
07:30 Q2: Hurricanes, has this product been tested for this or should I be taking my station down in the harsh winter months?
09:31 Q3: I'd like to know when we should expect to be able to connect the weather station with projects like Home Assistant through an API.
11:10 Q4: Will there be any new units that are built and deployed down the road with new sensors and features?
12:31 Q5: What will happen when an owner’s station comes to the end of it's life?
13:36 Q6: Will the owner retain the rights to the hex if they want to obtain a new wxm station, in the case that the station was the first/lead in the hex?
14:24 Q7: What details will a person who is not a station owner be able to access from the app?
15:10 Q8: What is currently the pricing policy for supplying forecasts to non business users?
16:31 Q9: What is the maximum distance between the M5 and the weather station if you switch to the external antenna?
17:30 Q10: Will you implement the M5 to the Helium version if something goes wrong with the Helium network?
18:15 Q11: How do I know if I have correctly placed my device? Who can confirm it?
19:24 Q12: When should we expect an update of the tokenomics whitepaper?
19:52 Q13: What are the updates on launching to mainnet?
20:21 Q14: Have you calculated the minimum and maximum amount of weather stations that need to be deployed in order to have accurate weather predictions per area around the world?

[@user-ke2vo4jl1k]

Finally something information for. Us. Finally guys. We were waiting so long this.

[@iamn3ko]

Well if you work with Awair there’s a massive market of Awair Element owners that got screwed over by PlanetWatch that are ready to provide good air quality data to WeatherXM.

[@inwit451]

Would a project built on algorand handle the data transmission better?

[@weatherxm9732]

We build on Polygon & Filecoin :)

[@gedisTT]

13:10 so we need to buy new station every 2 years? What about tokenomics? ROI and etc?

[@weatherxm9732]

In projects we were involved in the past, we used the same built and it has been operating without problems for more than 5 years. That said, a weather station is a piece of equipment exposed to conditions that vary from place to place and year to year, so the time between maintenance may vary.