WX Station Alerts Dashboard

A web application built with R Shiny for monitoring and analyzing data from BC Wildfire Service weather stations.

Features

• Real-time weather station monitoring across multiple fire centers and zones
• Visualization tools for weather metrics including:
  • Temperature analysis and trend detection
  • Wind speed and direction monitoring
  • Relative humidity tracking
  • Precipitation measurement
  • Power system analysis (battery voltage, solar charging)
• Interactive data filtering by:
  • Fire centre and zone
  • Individual or multiple stations
  • Time periods (last N hours, specific date, or date range)
• Automated alerts for:
  • Missing data entries
  • Sensor anomalies
  • Power system status
  • Environmental conditions
  • CRMP (Climate Reduction Monitoring Program) sensor support

Requirements

• R (latest stable version recommended)
• Required R packages:
  • shiny
  • RODBC
  • dplyr
  • lubridate
  • plotly
  • bslib
  • jsonlite
  • DT
  • zoo
  • viridis
  • ggplot2
• Microsoft SQL Server with appropriate database access
• Network access to weather station data sources

Project Status

Active development - The system is currently in production and actively maintained.

How to Contribute

If you would like to contribute, please see the CONTRIBUTING guidelines.

License

Copyright 2025 Province of British Columbia

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

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This project was created using the bcgovr package.