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

Carlos Morón, Jorge Pablo Diaz, Daniel Ferrández and Pablo Saiz
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Carlos Morón: Departamento de Tecnologías de la Edificación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Jorge Pablo Diaz: Departamento de Tecnologías de la Edificación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Daniel Ferrández: Departamento de Tecnologías de la Edificación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Pablo Saiz: Departamento de Economía Financiera, Contabilidad e Idioma Moderno, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 28032 Madrid, Spain

Energies, 2018, vol. 11, issue 9, 1-13

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: weather station; Arduino; renewable energy; environmental parameters (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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