High-Level Project Summary
Since NASA tool up a variety of surface solar and meteorological data parameters that are beneficial for commercial renewable energy and sustainable building ventures, but unfortunately, this information is difficultly accessible to the homeowner. So we solved this challenge by creating an application and a website based on the API data provided by NASA (POWER API) to determine temperature, Humidity, Solar irradiance, and Cloud amount. so by determining these parameters, the engineer can install a solar panel, lots of people might ask how could it be useful to access old data?It saves time and money to have the access to old data, instead of using measurement tools and waiting a whole year
Link to Project "Demo"
Link to Final Project
Detailed Project Description
This challenge was disbanded by building a mobile application and website. This application was based on the API data provided by NASA (POWER API) to:
• Determining the temperature and other weather conditions that enable the user of solar cells to access, and through the application, you can see the temperatures, wind speed, the Solar Irradiance, humidity, and how clear the sky
• Access live data using Open weather API.
• Control a Solar panel using Mobile Application(by using the Arduino Uno and servo motor)
• Calculating those parameters and it’s done by either measuring that parameter daily for a whole year or getting the history of those parameters in a specific place.
So by using this developed mobile application you can access the information on NASA’s prediction of worldwide renewable power web services portal and supply beneficial acquaintance about sunshine to the general public.
How we developed this project:
This project was developed by using many things such as:
1- Flutter/ Dart: to create the mobile application.
• google_maps_flutter 2.0.8
• Geolocator 5.1.5
• Location 4.3.0
• Dio 4.0.0
• Geocoding 2.0.1
2-HTML5 was used for creating web pages and applications.
3-CSS (Bootstrap) was used for developing a responsive website by representing the style and appearance of content like font, color padding, and so on.
4-JavaScript (Carousel. min, Jquery-3.5.1 min, jquery-ui.min,) which is used for creating web pages as it helped us to execute complex actions and also will enable the interaction of this website with visitors.
5- (Laravel) which is primarily used for building web apps using PHP7.
6- SQL to communicate with the database. Accessing and managing data stored in a relational database system.
7- POWER API which allowed our application to connect and interact with power data which was solar and meteorological data from satellite observations.
8- OPENWEATHERMAP API to calculate weather data for any location.
9- Using Arduino Uno and servo motors with a mobile app to control the solar panel by measuring and regulating the outputs of the panel and control the position of the panel. Other electronic components such as (jumpers, PCB….) also used. As well as using Rechargeable batteries.
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project:
NASA’s POWER API provides a lot of metrological data but not all are related to solar energy, so we used the most important parameters (Shortwave solar irradiance, Humidity, temperature, Solar day duration, and Cloud amount) with those parameters we calculated the average value in each month of the year. Showing the average of the parameters in each month, thus helping the engineer to calculate the amount of losses in each month of the year.
Space Agency Data
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project:
NASA’s POWER API provides a lot of metrological data but not all are related to solar energy, so we used the most important parameters (Shortwave solar irradiance, Humidity, temperature, Solar day duration, and Cloud amount) with those parameters we calculated the average value in each month of the year. Showing the average of the parameters in each month, thus helping the engineer to calculate the amount of losses in each month of the year.
Hackathon Journey
KEMSAS team was inspired by the pollution which endangers our lives, and we all agreed that finding a renewable source of energy is the way to start reducing this problem, one is solar energy, which is actually free and not hard to be harvested.
One of the things that we have learned is to use the POWER API and many other APIs which could help us in future projects, use google maps API and many other features when we had a challenge or a code problem we searched for it on many websites, we would like to thank NASA spaceapps for this wonderful experience.
References
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University of Southern Maine. "Is the Sun getting hotter? If so, why? Will Earth eventually become too hot for life?" | Planetarium | University of Southern Maine. (n.d.). Retrieved September 25, 2021, from https://usm.maine.edu/planet/sun-getting-hotter-if-so-why-will-earth-eventually-become-too-hot-life.
NASA. (n.d.). NASA power. NASA. Retrieved September 25, 2021, from https://power.larc.nasa.gov/.
Earth observing dashboard. Earth Observing Dashboard. (n.d.). Retrieved September 25, 2021, from https://eodashboard.org/.
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