Construcción de una estación meteorológica y desarrollo de un programa computacional para la evaluación del recurso eólico y solar en el Campus José Rubén Orellana

Abstract

This document presents the design and construction of a weather station along with the implementation of a computational program for the assessment of solar and wind resources. The weather station is based on the open-source electronics platform Arduino, and registers variables such as: ambient temperature, relative humidity, solar irradiance, pressure, altitude, latitude, longitude, direction and wind velocity. In addition, it has an autonomous power supply fed by a photovoltaic system and has the ability to transmit data in real time by using an Ethernet module compatible with Arduino. Moreover, it stores the information in a database created in MYSQL, which is located inside a XAMPP server of a computer. A Web page created in PHP allows the visualization of the variables acquired in real time. Thus, through the weather station, meteorological variables are collected to feed the implemented computational program, which delivers information on the wind and solar potential of the area in which the weather station is located. The results of this work serve as input information for different projects aiming at the use of solar and wind resources.