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The UPCT install a weather station to study how to save energy (04/02/2010)

The Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, University of Cartagena has launched a weather station, which is located on the roof of the former Naval Hospital, where is located the School of Industrial Engineers.

The weather station allows continuous monitoring of weather conditions that occur in Cartagena and offers real-time data every two minutes for 24 hours a day, storing the data in periods of 15 minutes.

The station has sensors that measure, among other values, direction and wind speed, temperature and apparent temperature, relative humidity, rainfall and ultraviolet radiation recorded.

Professor Antonio Guillamón Frutos, project coordinator, explained that "one of the objectives pursued by this facility is to obtain predictive models of energy consumption using environmental conditions."

The software used for data acquisition has been developed by teachers and students of the School of Industrial Engineering at the Technical University of Cartagena.

The software monitors the different variables of interest for further study, a website where they can observe the measured values with a range of measures than 2 minutes and is available 24 hours a day.

The web application has been partially developed through the collaboration of students participating in the Internship Program UPCT units.

This facility is included within a multidisciplinary research project, partly funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation, which aims to develop advanced tools that permit an improvement in energy expenditure.

This project, led by Professor Antonio Gabaldon Marin, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering UPCT, currently has the active participation of the School of Industrial Engineering, Information Service and Technical Unit UPCT.

Source: UPCT

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