A Low-Cost, Stand-Alone Sensory Platform for Monitoring Extreme Solar Overirradiance Events
Otavio Andre Chase,
Mailson Borges Teles,
Marinaldo de Jesus dos Santos Rodrigues,
José Felipe Souza de Almeida,
Wilson Negrão Macêdo,
Carlos Tavares da Costa Junior
Affiliations
Otavio Andre Chase
Cyberspatial Institute (ICIBE), Amazonian Federal Rural University (UFRA), Av. Presidente Tancredo Neves, 2501–Montese, Belém, PA 66077-830, Brazil
Mailson Borges Teles
Group of Studies and Development in Alternative Energies (GEDAE), Institute of Technology (ITEC), Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Rua Augusto Corrêa, 01–Guamá, Belém, PA 66075-110, Brazil
Marinaldo de Jesus dos Santos Rodrigues
Group of Studies and Development in Alternative Energies (GEDAE), Institute of Technology (ITEC), Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Rua Augusto Corrêa, 01–Guamá, Belém, PA 66075-110, Brazil
José Felipe Souza de Almeida
Cyberspatial Institute (ICIBE), Amazonian Federal Rural University (UFRA), Av. Presidente Tancredo Neves, 2501–Montese, Belém, PA 66077-830, Brazil
Wilson Negrão Macêdo
Group of Studies and Development in Alternative Energies (GEDAE), Institute of Technology (ITEC), Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Rua Augusto Corrêa, 01–Guamá, Belém, PA 66075-110, Brazil
Carlos Tavares da Costa Junior
Group of Studies and Development in Alternative Energies (GEDAE), Institute of Technology (ITEC), Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Rua Augusto Corrêa, 01–Guamá, Belém, PA 66075-110, Brazil
In this paper, we present a low-cost, stand-alone sensory platform developed for in situ monitoring of environmental parameters, for use in the Amazon region in the north of Brazil. The mission of the platform is to perform monitoring and identification of overirradiance (solar irradiance > 1000 W/m2) and extreme overirradiance events (solar irradiance > 1300 W/m2) using a photovoltaic based irradiance sensor. The sensory platform was built using the ESP8266 microcontroller, an open embedded computer capable of Wi-Fi communication using the IEEE 802.11 standard, and small photovoltaic modules, air temperature, atmospheric pressure, voltage, and current sensors, enabling the development of a low-cost system (€70/R$350.00 BRL). Calibration and tests were conducted at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Belém campus, Pará, where the platform measured an extreme overirradiance of 1321 W/m2 at a low-latitude (1 °S) and low altitude (7 m above sea level).
