Abstract
The production of energy at the global level is conditioned by the use of fossil fuels that have a great environmental impact. In the last decades, renewable energy production systems have been implemented, and networks of nearly zero-energy buildings have been created, with a consequent complexity in the design phase in order to optimize the results. In this way, electronic prototype development methods like the one that is proposed in this paper improve the tasks of design and modelling. Thus, a new weather station based on an Arduino platform has been developed to collect and store ambient temperature, relative humidity, barometric pressure, wind speed and air quality data, comparing the obtained data to those obtained using a validation station containing commercial sensors. The results show how the use of low cost Arduino sensors allow one to obtain similar values to those collected by more professional meteorological stations with insignificant scatter between both technologies.
Highlights
Exergy production from the Industrial Revolution to the present day, has been focused on the use of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas, a tendency followed by such emerging powers asChina and India which are replicating the pernicious growth model of industrialized countries [1].This leads inevitably to two great consequences
Other possible cause is the uncontrolled emissions of greenhouse gases, mainly CO2 and CH4, associated to the combustion of fossil fuels until an atmospheric concentration of 413 ppm is reached, that causes an average increase of 1 ◦ C in the planet’s temperature and that are precursors of the climate change [4,5]
It seems inexorable that developed civilizations must begin a transaction to growth models based on sustainable and durable development without compromising the possibilities of future generations, based on energy efficiency and use of renewable energy
Summary
Exergy production from the Industrial Revolution to the present day, has been focused on the use of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas, a tendency followed by such emerging powers asChina and India which are replicating the pernicious growth model of industrialized countries [1].This leads inevitably to two great consequences. China and India which are replicating the pernicious growth model of industrialized countries [1]. It seems inexorable that developed civilizations must begin a transaction to growth models based on sustainable and durable development without compromising the possibilities of future generations, based on energy efficiency and use of renewable energy. All this in the technological context, where new agents that model the decades of the world energy scenario appear: distributed generation, smart buildings, nearly zero-energy buildings or massive processing of environmental data [6,7,8]
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