High-Level Project Summary
Our project mainly focuses on Cairo governorate in Egypt. The project provides information on 3 aspects- solar fluxes, wind and temperature- in different urbans and suburbans around Cairo. According to these aspects and data, the user will be able to identify the best place to set a solar panels in cairo by examining the amount of sunlight that this area receives annually and examining the temperature occurs. These informations have collected from NASA POWER website around Cairo in the term of graphs. Moreover, the application also provides useful informations about solar and renewable energy for the public from different sources and international journals in the United states of America.
Link to Project "Demo"
Link to Final Project
Detailed Project Description
The application contains two categories- Useful informations and Find the best venue to set your solar panel. Most of the people in Egypt do not have much knowledge about solar energy and how to use it. However, there are few people who work in the agricultural and industrial fields that use the renewable energy instead of gaining electricity from the government to isolate their business. My goal is to spread this knowledge in all Egypt and encourage people to get to use this energies to safe money and the planet. I provide this in the category that called useful informations. This idea will benefit the ignorant people who doesn't know much about the renewable energy. By getting these useful information, now you will need to discover some place that will be eligible for the solar panel. You will find this by looking in 3 aspects- solar fluxes, wind and temperature- that are provided in Find the best venue to set your solar panel category . Unfortunately, we begin to work on the application very late. That is why we did the app on an app inventor without codes that restrict me with limited sources and kills our creativity. However, we are planning to develop the app with codes in addition to put different governorates instead of one city after the hackathon. Besides, we will add more details about solar energy to the public and putting an informations bank that provides a tremendous number of data about the new developed solar panels and energy.
Space Agency Data
I used the NASA POWER website then I selecting a specific location and categories like solar fluxes, wind and temperature. Further, I converted the excel tables into graphs to be more easier for the public. Besides, we use MIT app inventor to make the application, so if there is any error will be because the app is apk.
Hackathon Journey
On our challenging journey, we have a deeper understanding of renewable energies, especially solar energy, and how to quickly find innovative solutions to big problems. NASA space's experiment should be described as more than wonderful because it teaches you so much about teamwork and thoughtfully thought-out and creative. What inspired us to choose this challenge is our curiosity about it as well as the importance of renewable energy to the growth and progress of society. We started the project with an idea and then a micro model, and then we wanted to spread the idea to more regions and actually implement it. Our biggest challenge was to analyze NASA data, but with more in-depth study and hard work, we were able to produce the desired product. I'd like to thank the entire NASA team for cooperating with us and answering our questions, and also for giving us this great opportunity.
References
- NASA POWER website
- Our world in data website
- Sciencing .com
- New York times journal
- New Scientist website
- MIT app inventor
Tags
#Glossy_Sun #curiosity
Global Judging
This project has been submitted for consideration during the Judging process.