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Panama | You Are My Sunshine

Here Comes the Sun

High-Level Project Summary

We decided to focus on renewable energies due to the obvious necessity of a change, as young adults we are concerned with the path we are taking as a society, we grew up during a global climate crisis and we understood that one day we were going to be part of the solution.Our team developed an app that has different features such as Weather, Panel Tips (for the Solar Panels), Windy (for Wind turbines), and includes the NASA POWER, it contains the graphic that shows the radiation axis of the day. Our app comes up with handy tools for renewable energies users, providing them with total control of their renewable energies technologies.

Link to Project "Demo"

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fC_Zbvbb2UfL44iOnh4_iofMUYuIWTKp/view?usp=sharing

Link to Final Project

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KG0wQ9ndHysKmrvL96UKlmIrlaxmwumw/view?usp=sharing

Detailed Project Description

This project consists of app weather but is not just app weather. We will use the base of NASA POWER and make it a friendly app but with some special features. It will help you to:






  • In general, the user can use their location or see around the world. And other features like:
  1. It will have a link where the user can access NASA POWER.
  2. Change of units.
  3. Updates of the data.
  4. Reports of meteorological changes.







  • Getting the most out of renewable energy machines.
  1. Calibrating
  2. Recording and comparing all the data.
  3. This data can be used in a lot of ways, Predicting the values of the next years, the data could be used for research, and the user and us can compare the data with data of days, months, or years before. 
  4. Specific data and alerts allow the machine to work efficiently.
  5. Prevents accidents and damage to the equipment.
  6. Reduce cost and time.







  • We have an option if you only want to see the weather, but it also has some specifications like:
  1. The levels of UV the day the coming days. It also has a notification that pops when the levels of UV in its zone are dangerous.
  2. All the characteristics that the weather apps have. As temperature, wind, humidity, and many others. 
  3. It also alerts you for meteorological warnings, even days before (if it is possible) such as tornadoes, hurricanes, and many others.

Space Agency Data

When we chose our challenge we read the resources given by NASA SPACE APPS CHALLENGE and NASA POWER caught our attention, so we decided to base our app on that specific resource, and then we used our own ideas to develop the app's features.

Hackathon Journey

The Space Apps Challenge is known to be intense because you have to develop a great idea in a few hours. Having this in mind, our team chose four options previously the 48 hours of the hackathon. then we chose the challenge " You are my Sunshine". Our inspiration for this Challenge is based on how we plan to solve using the data of NASA POWER, however, we also took it because we like the difficulty of the challenge that it offers.


Our approach in this challenge was just not to do what the challenge asks for and we ask ourselves, "why we aren't doing more?". We have the ideas and the approach to come with a solution but we came with more ideas to make a friendly app. This is why our solution does not just focus on the data and parameters, we focus on the necessities of the user. We solve the main challenge by knowing the data of NASA POWER and how it works, we offer a friendly app with a nice look.

References

  1. NASA Space Apps Challenge. (2021, September 30). You Are My Sunshine | NASA Space Apps Challenge [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6VcgwtXrt4
  2. Stackhouse, P. (2020, February 11). NASA POWER | Docs | Data services | API overview - NASA POWER | Docs. NASA POWER | Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources. https://power.larc.nasa.gov/docs/services/api/
  3. Stackhouse, P. (2020, February 24). NASA POWER | Docs | Tutorials | API getting started - NASA POWER | Docs. NASA POWER | Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources. https://power.larc.nasa.gov/docs/tutorials/api-getting-started/
  4. NASA, P. NASA POWER | Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources. https://power.larc.nasa.gov/
  5. The tools we used in the development of our project were Office 365 and google docs.


Tags

#wind, #solarpanel, #weather, #sun, #NASA

Global Judging

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You Are My Sunshine

NASA produces a variety of surface solar and meteorological data parameters that are useful to commercial renewable energy and sustainable building ventures, but this information is not easily accessible to the typical homeowner. Your challenge is to develop a mobile application to access the information on NASA’s Prediction of Worldwide renewable Energy Resources (POWER) web services portal and provide useful information about sunshine to the general public.