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This section provides an overview for wind speed & direction instruments as well as their applications and principles. Also, please take a look at the list of 27 wind speed & direction instrument manufacturers and their company rankings. Here are the top-ranked wind speed & direction instrument companies as of January, 2025: 1.Inspeed.com LLC, 2.ABB E-mobility, 3.PP Systems International, Inc..
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An anemometer is an instrument that has the functions of both an anemometer and an anemometer.
It is used to observe wind conditions because it can measure both wind speed and direction at the same time. There are many types of anemometers; the three main types being the wind cup type, windmill type, and ultrasonic type. There are 36 wind directions, and the average direction for 10 minutes or 2 minutes is displayed as the wind direction.
Wind speed is the distance traveled by air per unit of time, and is also displayed as the average value of wind speed over a 10-minute or 2-minute period, using the unit of knots. From large high-precision observations to small portable ones, they are suitable for a wide range of applications.
In large high-precision observation applications, anemometers are very important indicators for predicting weather conditions because they enable us to understand atmospheric movement by observing wind conditions.
By understanding the movement of clouds and the strength of winds at different wind observation sites, it is possible to predict disasters and weather conditions. Issuing cautions and warnings for typhoons and waves is useful to prevent the spread of damage.
In addition, since wind information is essential for the safe operation of ships and aircraft, anemometers are installed at airports and coastal areas to keep track of real-time wind information.
Small, portable anemometers are used to observe wind conditions in indoor environments. Specifically, it is used during inspections and maintenance inspections of equipment such as air conditioners and ducts, and for investigating the state of air circulation in clean rooms.
The anemometer consists of hemispherical or conical cups mounted in three to four directions around a rotating shaft. Wind speed is measured by measuring the speed at which the cups rotate in response to the wind.
It consists of a body part and a propeller part. The propeller attached to the tip of the body receives wind and rotates to measure wind speed, and the body is streamlined to move in the direction of the wind to measure wind direction.
Ultrasonic anemometers are used by installing a pair of sound wave receivers and transmitters. speed from the time the sound waves are emitted into the air to the time they are received.
1. Observation Location
Anemometers are generally installed in flat, open areas because they are easily affected by wind. The distance from obstacles such as buildings and trees should be at least 10 times the height of the obstacle.
Wind blowing from the edge of a building or the top of an uneven cliff can greatly affect wind measurements. Although it is relatively common for anemometers to be installed on building rooftops using steel towers, it is desirable to select a location that is less affected by blowing wind, rooftop structures such as cooling towers, and wind turbulence caused by the size and height of the building.
It is also important to choose a location free from wind turbulence when selecting an observation site for an anemometer. that is not affected by wind turbulence.
2. Installation Location
Anemometers should be installed on a tower or post so that the bottom of the instrument support is horizontal. This will ensure accurate readings. If the anemometer is not level, the cups will not rotate evenly and the readings will be inaccurate.
To determine if it is level, use a level. A level can be used to verify that the top of the mounting base is level. Note that if the anemometer is not level, the cups will not rotate evenly and the readings will be inaccurate.
3. Height
The height of the anemometer should be mounted with two points in mind.
First, the anemometer should be installed at a height where it is not obstructed by plants, trees, or other structures, and second, it should not be affected by temperature gradients near the ground surface. The ideal height for an anemometer is 10 feet (3 meters). If the purpose is clear, such as observing the wind speed on a bridge or at the exit of a tunnel to ensure the safe operation of a car or train, it is necessary to select the installation location and height of the measuring instrument according to the purpose.
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Davis Instruments Corp., founded in 1963 and headquartered in Hayward, USA, is a manufacturer of weather, marine and outdoor instrumentation. The company designs and produces weather monitoring solutions that provide scientific data to weather enthusiasts, professional meteorologists and industrial applications. It provides a line of weather stations along with software products that can be used by agricultural industry, educators or government entities. It also offers a line of marine and boating accessories for sailors, power boaters and anglers. The company certifications include ISO 9001 for quality management, and its products conform to RoHS and REACH standards.
Onset Computer is a manufacturer of data loggers and monitoring solutions, established in 1981 and headquartered in Bourne, Massachusetts, USA. Their product lineup includes data loggers for indoor and outdoor monitoring of temperature, humidity, light intensity, and other parameters. They also provide data loggers for pharmaceutical storage monitoring. These products are accompanied by a software product specifically developed to enhance data collection, monitoring, communication, and analysis in order to optimize these processes. Onset Computer is ISO 9001:2015 certified for its quality management systems.
Comptus, founded in 1992 and headquartered in Campton, New Hampshire, is a manufacturer of industrial and outdoor environmental sensors. The company specializes in producing instruments essential for accurate weather and climate information. Its product range includes wind speed anemometers, environmental transmitters and sensors, barometric pressure instruments, and solar radiation sensors. The company provides sensors for building automation, renewable energy, agriculture, environmental monitoring, and recreation markets. It creates customized sensors to meet client specifications. The company is also recognized as New Hampshire's "Exporter of the Year," in 2020.
Optical Scientific, Inc. was founded in 1985 and headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The company is a manufacturer and research, development, and engineering firm that designs and builds optical instruments for measuring precipitation, airflow, turbulence, and visibility. These sensors and systems serve airports, highways, railroads, maritime, and several other markets around the world. The company’s product segments include Atmosphere and Turbulence, Automated Weather Stations, Emissions Flow Monitoring, Process Control, and Weather Sensors.
Atlas Material Testing Technology LLC, founded in 1910, is a manufacturer of standard instruments, specialized solar simulation, and high-speed illumination for use in the food and beverage, consumer electronics, paint & coating, UVC material degradation test, and graphic arts industries. The Mount Prospect, Illinois-based corporation has ISO/IEC 17025, AMECA, CRRC, FGIA, and Quality Management System certification. In 2007, Industrial Growth Partners purchased the company, and in 2010, it became a business unit of AMETEK Measurement, Communications & Testing, a Division of AMETEK's Electronic Instruments Group.
Columbia Weather Systems, Inc., established in 1998 with headquarters in Hillsboro, Oregon, is a manufacturer of professional weather stations. Their weather stations, including Orion, Pulsar, Magellan, Capricorn, and Weather MicroServer, serve a variety of applications in public safety, military, government, industry, and aviation sectors. These stations measure critical meteorological parameters such as temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, rainfall, pressure, and solar radiation, allowing for weather monitoring, storm tracking, and report generation.
Yunnong was established in 2012 as a developer and manufacturer of sensors in the field of agricultural environment and meteorology based in China. The company offers compact weather stations, weather sensors, light and solar radiation instruments, soil pH sensors, and other accessories. It also provides solutions for monitoring and controlling, such as photovoltaic power stations, agricultural microclimate monitoring, traffic weather stations, and machine wind speed alarms. The company is certified to CE, ISO 9001:2015, and RoHS standards. It continues to serve farmers, agricultural businesses, and government agencies worldwide.
dol-sensors A/S, founded in 1965 and headquartered in Aarhus, Denmark, is a manufacturer of sensor solutions for livestock production and animal welfare. The company designs and produces a range of capacitive and climate sensors which are primarily used for automated tasks within the agricultural industry and livestock farming. These sensors automate the conveyance and material handling tasks by detecting the need for feed, grain, wood and other materials as well as provide data for climate regulation by monitoring factors like temperature, humidity, light and ammonia. The company collaborates with the customers to understand their needs and provide custom designed sensor solutions.
Hunan Rika Electronic Tech Co Ltd, founded in the year 2013 and based in Changsha, China is a developer and manufacturer, and supplier of weather and temperature sensors. The product portfolio includes wind, radiation, ambient, soil, and water sensor, rain gauge, data logger, weather stations, radiation shields, and accessories. The company also offers complete environmental monitoring and meteorological solutions. The products are used in multiple industries which include air quality monitoring, water treatment, solar PV industry, hydrological monitoring, and smart agriculture.
TAMAYA TECHNICS INC. was founded in 1675 in Japan as a manufacturer, and supplier of surveying instruments and more. Their product portfolio includes various optical instruments, measuring instruments such as digital planimeters, levels, laser plummets, and navigation instruments such as telescopes, marine binoculars, and vanes. There are also meteorological instruments that have various applications for example, to record and measure rainfall there is a rain gauge and TAMAPod dataloggers, and for wind, there is a digital balloon theodolite and for the measuring of discharge rates in lakes and rivers, there is the current meter available.
ANEOS Corporation is a manufacturer of meteorological observation equipment established last 2019, by a merger between Ogasawara Keiki Seisakusho Co., Ltd. and Nippon Electric Instrument Co., Ltd. Ogasawara Keiki Seisakusho Co., Ltd. started as an aircraft and watches repair factory last 1886. In 1893, the company started manufacturing meteorological equipment such as pressure gauges, and surveying instruments. Meanwhile, Nippon Electric Instrument Co., Ltd. founded last 1965 has Wind Speed and Direction Meter as its first product. Currently, the company has ten products spanning different industries. It also offers solutions related to Public Transportation, Fire Prevention, Flood Control, and the Environment.
Munro Instruments Limited, founded in 1864 and based in Harlow, Essex, is a manufacturer of meteorological, hydrological, and environmental monitoring equipment. The company product range includes portable meteorological sensors, weather stations, air quality samplers, and pendulum testers for evaluating slip and skid potential. Organizations worldwide, including meteorological offices, airports, defense ministries, power stations, and offshore rigs, receive supplies of these products. In 2019, it became part of the MRC group of companies and offers a range of laboratory equipment. The company offers detailed repair and calibration services to meet customers' needs.
Scarlet Tech is a Taiwan-based manufacturer of cutting-edge technology solutions that was established in 2012. It serves industries such as healthcare, safety, environmental, telecommunications, and research and development. Its portfolio includes products such as heat stress prevention systems, construction safety equipment, noise monitoring solutions, wireless instrumentation, and IoT technology. The company's products are used to enhance occupational safety and health, improve construction site safety, monitor environmental noise levels, enable wireless data collection, and support research and development efforts across the industries it serves.
Gill Instruments Limited, founded in Limington, Hampshire, in 1988 is a manufacturer of ultrasonic anemometers and integrated weather stations. Their product portfolio includes 3-axis ultrasonic anemometers, integrated multi-function weather stations and communications software. The company serves markets such as Meteorological and Climatological Monitoring, Renewable Energy Assessment, Environmental Research and Studies, Agriculture and Crop Monitoring and Industrial and Construction Weather Monitoring. They also provide services including Assembly lines for precision electronic products, UKAS accredited high speed wind tunnels for test and calibration and air velocity calibration.
Enercorp Instruments, Ltd was born in 1977 and operates out of Brampton, Ontario. Enercorp is a manufacturer of measuring equipment used in markets such as HVAC, industrial monitoring, food processing, waste management, pharmaceutical, lumber, and agriculture. Enercorp produces sensors and components in six categories: temperature, including temperature sensor plates and temperature probes, current such as core current switches and current indicators, Aqua-Boy & curing such as moisture meters and needle electrode heads, pressure such as pressure transducers and pressure transmitters, wind such as ultrasonic anemometers, and binding post, such as lead-through bolts.
Maximum, Inc. is a manufacturer of weather monitoring and analysis instruments established in 1970 and located in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA. The company’s product lineup includes indoor as well as outdoor thermometers for measuring temperature, wind instruments such as anemometers for measuring wind direction or speed, and barometers for monitoring atmospheric pressure in order to aid in weather forecasting. The company’s products are commonly used in operations reliant on weather monitoring and navigation such as in the marine industry, as well as by educational institutions and home users.
ABB E-mobility provides electric vehicle charging solutions for customers around the globe. ABB E-mobility offers DC fast chargers as well as AC chargers with focus on reliability and uptime. Since 2010, ABB E-mobility has sold over 50,000 DC fast chargers and over 1 million total AC chargers. ABB E-mobility offers home single and multi-charge units, retail, workplace, and hospitality charge units, electric vehicle fleet sales, as well as public transportation. Additionally, numerous digital solutions and software services are available.
Multi Measuring Instruments Co., Ltd. was founded in Chiba, Japan in 1986 and is headquartered in Tokyo. As per its namesake, Multi offers a vast array of measuring and testing equipment used across a number of industries. Some of their offerings include voltage meters, network testers, lux meters, cable locators, sound meters, various thermometers, gas analyzers, and water quality meters. Multi Measuring Instruments has a mission for its products to improve the global environment by detecting inefficiencies and leaks, developing products that will be useful for solar and wind power generation.
PCE Instruments UK Ltd., started in 199 and headquartered in Manchester, UK, is a manufacturer and supplier of test instruments, equipment, and tools for weighing, measuring, and control systems. The company offers more than 500 test equipment, including analyzers, inspection cameras, meters, detectors, and sensors, with applications in various fields like data acquisition, electrical engineering, environmental science, building inspection, and food processing. Its manufacturing and development division is ISO 9001 certified, all its test instruments, equipment, and tools are factory calibrated, and the company also provides services for custom test instrument design, installation, and maintenance.
Anger Associates, Inc. was established in 1957 in the Detroit, Michigan area where it stands to this day. Anger Associates specializes in consulting, sales and support of measurement and calibration instrumentation, dynamic signal analysis tools and software, and complete test systems. Anger Associates serves many industries including automotive, pharmaceutical, and steel manufacturing. Anger Associates focuses on vehicle. Powertrain test systems, production test systems, torsional vibration analyzers, dynamic signal acquisition and analysis system and tools, field calibration instruments, calibration laboratory instruments including primary and working standards, pressure/vacuum and flow sensors and transducers, and mass flow meters & controllers.
Abbeon Cal Inc. is a manufacturer, distributor, and supplier of plastic working tools, based in California, USA, since 1995. They offer a wide range of products, including handheld tools for cutting, punching, and bending plastic, as well as machine tools for cutting, drilling, and milling plastic. Accessories like dies, punches, and cutting blades are also available. The company provides plastic working services, including custom tool design, manufacturing, and repair. Some of their featured products include Handheld Thermoplastic Shears, Pneumatic Hot Hole Punch, Automatic Tubing and Cable Cutting Machine, Temperature and Humidity Analog Dials, and Dataloggers.
Campbell Scientific Inc., established in 1974 and headquartered in Logan, Utah, is a designer and manufacturer of measurement, data acquisition systems, and data loggers. The company sells sensors, measurement devices, and OEM products for water, weather, and soil applications. It also provides software for several purposes, including communication between data loggers and supporting data logger programming. It is ISO 14001, ISO 9001, and ISO 27001 certified, and it marketed its first product, named the CA-9 Path-Averaging Laser Anemometer, in 1974. It introduced its first data acquisition system, the CR5 Digital Recorder, in 1975.
Ranking as of January 2025
Derivation Method| Rank | Company | Click Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Inspeed.com LLC |
8.1%
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| 2 | ABB E-mobility |
8.1%
|
| 3 | Abbeon Cal Inc. |
6.5%
|
| 4 | ANEOS Corporation |
6.5%
|
| 5 | PP Systems International, Inc. |
4.8%
|
| 6 | PCE Instruments UK Ltd |
4.8%
|
| 7 | Munro Instruments Limited |
4.8%
|
| 8 | Atlas Material Testing Technology LLC |
4.8%
|
| 9 | Anger Associates Inc. |
4.8%
|
| 10 | Columbia Weather Systems, Inc. |
4.8%
|
Derivation Method
The ranking is calculated based on the click share within the wind speed & direction instrument page as of January 2025. Click share is defined as the total number of clicks for all companies during the period divided by the number of clicks for each company.Number of Employees
Newly Established Company
Company with a History
*Including some distributors, etc.
*Including some distributors, etc.
| Country | Number of Companies | Share (%) |
|---|---|---|
|
United States of America
|
9 | 45.0% |
|
Japan
|
3 | 15.0% |
|
United Kingdom
|
3 | 15.0% |
|
China
|
2 | 10.0% |
|
Denmark
|
1 | 5.0% |
|
Taiwan
|
1 | 5.0% |
|
Canada
|
1 | 5.0% |
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