High-Level Project Summary
Due to the water crisis that affects Brazil, we see a scenario of increases of more than 30% in electricity since the beginning of January after the rains are far below expectations, completely affecting our energy replenishment system, which is through We saw an opportunity to bring information to solar radiation monitoring users and determine power generation based on the user's location or any other selected location. Conduct comparisons of energy expenditures from previous months with current months and savings that they would have using solar energy.
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Detailed Project Description
Due to the water crisis that affects Brazil and more specifically the interior of São Paulo, where we are located, we see a scenario of increases of more than 30% in electricity bill collections since the beginning of January after the rains were far below expectations , thus having a decrease in the levels of lakes and rivers that constitute our hydroelectric plants and our main source of collection of electricity.
With this scenario of water insufficiency, several problems have arisen, such as cities declaring emergency status, more severe water savings, water rationing in more than one day, risks of blackouts, among several other attempts to contain this instability.
Therefore, with the uncertainties in the supply of the electricity network and lack of rain, we have sunnier days and an incidence of sunlight that can be used and reverted for use by the entire population. So, with these opportunities to use solar energy, we see a need for comparative information and reliable data.
The creation of the "Helios" app complements all this moment lived in our country with this problem being caused year after year, the intention is to reach all audiences, both those who have solar energy plates and all those who want a contrast the amount spent on your energy bills and how much you would save using sustainable energy.
Using NASA's database, we can have real-time and very reliable information that we bring to our users. We use in our application, different views that allow the user to carry out analysis of the following items on their own:
• Solar Radiation: Real-time solar radiation index at the designated location.
• Energy Estimate: Energy that reaches the ground that can be reused in the use of solar panels.
• Sunlight Estimate: Real-time locale light estimate.
• Temperature, humidity, and wind speed.
• Real x Solar Consumption: Comparison between your energy consumption in values compared to savings when using solar energy.
• Daily, monthly and annual graphs of radiation indices.
Using the figma creation tool, we developed an app using a very self-intuitive template, with databases on NASA's Prediction of Worldwide Renovable Energy Resources (POWER) web services portal. Using programming languages like JSON, we make the system-application integrations and through HTML and CSS the basics in our app to demonstrate to our user.
Our project repository can be found at https://github.com/heliosspaceappschallenge/Helios.
Space Agency Data
We have collected many useful data from NASA to develop our project. Among them, are the UVA and UVB Irradiance from the DATA ACESS VIEWER (https://power.larc.nasa.gov/data-access-viewer/), wich we used to create the graphics that our application is going to show. We selected many periods, from 1 day to 1 year to create as many graphics as possible.
We also used the image database from NASA (https://images.nasa.gov/) to get some beautiful images, that we used as background on some of our app's screens.
Hackathon Journey
Our team's experience with the space apps challenge was unique. As in Brazil, much of the energy generated comes from water resources as a solution to this problem, we decided to address the You Are My Sunshine challenge. We are very satisfied with our work and hope that our solution add a lot for the community that should increasingly seek to use sustainable energy
References
NASA DATA ACCESS VIEWER: https://power.larc.nasa.gov/data-access-viewer/
NASA IMAGE DATABASE: https://images.nasa.gov/
FIGMA: https://www.figma.com/
PHOTOPEA: https://www.photopea.com/
GOOGLE ICONS: https://fonts.google.com/icons
GITHUB: https://github.com/heliosspaceappschallenge/Helios
FIGMA TO HTML CONVERTION: https://mockitt.wondershare.com/figma/figma-to-html.html
YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcFOaZqwoWZbS_KgIRBVXvA
We also used Microsoft Excel to create the graphics, and Microsoft Word to create documents for our presentation.
Tags
#app, #sun, #solar, #energy, #renewable, #monitoring, #helios, #
Global Judging
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