Design, Development and Implementation of a Weather Station Prototype for Renewable Energy Systems

The production of energy at the global level is conditioned by the use of fossil fuels that have a great environmental impact. In the last decades, renewable energy production systems have been implemented, and networks of nearly zero-energy buildings have been created, with a consequent complexity...

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Published inEnergies (Basel) Vol. 11; no. 9; p. 2234
Main Authors Morón, Carlos, Diaz, Jorge, Ferrández, Daniel, Saiz, Pablo
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.09.2018
Subjects
Air conditioners
Air quality
Air temperature
Ambient temperature
Arduino
Atmospheric pressure
Design
Design optimization
environmental parameters
Fossil fuels
Green buildings
Relative humidity
renewable energy
Renewable resources
Sensors
Weather
weather station
Wind speed
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Summary:The production of energy at the global level is conditioned by the use of fossil fuels that have a great environmental impact. In the last decades, renewable energy production systems have been implemented, and networks of nearly zero-energy buildings have been created, with a consequent complexity in the design phase in order to optimize the results. In this way, electronic prototype development methods like the one that is proposed in this paper improve the tasks of design and modelling. Thus, a new weather station based on an Arduino platform has been developed to collect and store ambient temperature, relative humidity, barometric pressure, wind speed and air quality data, comparing the obtained data to those obtained using a validation station containing commercial sensors. The results show how the use of low cost Arduino sensors allow one to obtain similar values to those collected by more professional meteorological stations with insignificant scatter between both technologies.
ISSN:1996-1073
1996-1073
DOI:10.3390/en11092234