Astra Microwave Wins INR 255 Million Order From Indian Meteorological Department
HYDERABAD, India--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Astra Microwave Products Ltd (BSE:532493):
- Unmanned automatic weather stations to be installed across 550 India locations
- To enable 24X7 live centralized monitoring of multiple weather variables
- Order won against global competition
- "Brings bleeding edge capability to short-term weather forecasting"
- B Malla Reddy, Managing Director
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Astra Microwave Products Ltd, India's leading provider of microwave wireless communications technologies for use in defense, space, and civilian applications, today announced that it has received an INR 255 million order from the Indian Meteorological Department. The order is for the supply, installation, and commissioning of remote unmanned automatic remote weather stations in 550 locations across India. Scheduled to be installed in 2009, the weather stations will feed live data via satellite to the Met Department's central servers on a 24X7 basis.
Each automated weather station will consist of:
- Data logging and transmission system
- GPS receiver and transmitter
- Antenna
- Solar panel
- Remote display unit
- Sensors for temperature, relative humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind speed and direction, solar radiation, rainfall, soil moisture and temperature, among others.
Comment by B Malla Reddy, Managing Director, Astra Microwave Products
Featuring sensors for multiple weather variables, the stations will bring bleeding edge capability to short-term weather forecasting at the local, regional, and national level, said B Malla Reddy, Managing Director, Astra Microwave Products Limited. "Precise weather forecasting is of crucial significance to groups such as farmers, fishermen, transporters, traffic controllers, public and emergency service providers--indeed, to anyone whose profession is dependent on or affected by the weather; we see our automatic weather stations as an enabler for India at large," said Mr Malla Reddy.
About Astra Microwave Products
Headquartered in Hyderabad, India, Astra Microwave Products Limited (http://www.astramwp.com/) designs, develops, and manufactures components and sub-systems for microwave wireless communications systems used in defense, space, and civilian applications. Prominent customers include, among others, the Defense Research Development Organization, Bharat Electronics, Hindustan Aeronautics, Bharat Dynamics, Electronics Corporation of India, the Indian Space Research Organization, Reliance Communications, Ericsson, and Tata Teleservices. In fiscal 2007-08, Astra Microwave gross revenue was INR 1.27 billion on an equity capital of INR 100 million.
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