The main base station is at the Fort Collins Utilities offices. In addition, a remote base station can be set-up in the field to receive data. Having multiple base stations provides redundancy, which is important if one of the stations goes off line. The base stations have a receiver and a decoder to interpret the data. Users can access the data from their desktop computer, by dialing-in using a laptop, or via the web pages.
Software programs page emergency management and utility personnel when alarm thresholds are reached.
The data is also transmitted to the National Weather Service in Boulder, Colorado. Check out a schematic of how the system hardware is integrated.