Awards & Nominations
The Reflectors has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!
Global Nominee
My Solar Panel
High-Level Project Summary
Our application allows the general public to access a free database of information about either, their current solar panel or, one they are thinking of buying. It will calculate the estimated energy production of your solar panel(s) based on your location, solar panel, and the number of solar panels that you have. Using data from around the globe, we have created a database that holds average hours of sunlight exposure in your area. It is important that the public has access to something such as this as many may be hesitant to purchase a solar panel. Hopefully, after having seen the true power of solar energy using our application, they will join in on this clean energy path.
Link to Project "Demo"
Link to Final Project
Detailed Project Description
My Solar Panel is an Android app (hopefully a port to iOS will come soon). We used Android Studio with Java and C++ coding languages. We have created our own database of weather to provide accurate energy predictions.
Space Agency Data
We were inspired by CSA's and the Canadian Government's "Photovoltaic Potential and Solar Resource Maps of Canada". The idea for location-specific solar efficiency inspired us to make a database of average hours of sunlight per year in different regions in order to predict energy output.
Hackathon Journey
We had initially expected to program on XCode, an iOS application IDE. Unfortunately, our hardware fell short of the necessary MacOS to run this software and was forced into using Android Studio. Android Studio runs primarily on Java, a language unfamiliar to our team. Luckily, there was some work that could be done in C++ but, we did lose a lot of time relearning a new IDE. A lot of ideas were cut due to time but, we put our all into what we have. Considering this was our first hackathon, we feel proud of our limited work. We made progress and have a general project idea and statement. Moving forward, we will keep working and we will improve by next year.
References
https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/8b434ac7-aedb-4698-90df-ba77424a551f
Android Studio
https://www.rfwireless-world.com/images/solar-cell-efficiency-formula.jpg
www.climatestotravel.com
Tags
#Apps #Software #Data Orginization