About Sun Monitor
GreenSpark — solar power monitoring since 2013
The Team
GreenSpark consists of two students from M-ITI. Poan (in the middle of the picture above) comes from Taiwan and had just finished his Master in Entertainment Technology. Joel (the right one in the picture) comes from Madeira and was taking a bridging program to Human-Computer Interaction.
The team and this project won the Ericsson Application Awards 2013 in the student category, competing with 195 registered teams and 91 submitted projects. The project was evaluated by more than 900 end users and 6 juries.
The System
Our sun-monitor prototype was installed in a green building in the southern part of Taiwan. With 110 solar panels (covering 254.1 square meters) on the roof, the building can potentially generate 25.3 kilowatts of electricity. The solar power system cost around €72k in 2010 when it was deployed. As a government incentive, the power it generates (around 33,000 kilowatt hours per year) was and will be sold to the electricity company in Taiwan at triple the regular electricity price.
Beyond solar power, the building also benefits from many environment-friendly designs: rainwater recycling waters the garden plants, and windows and fans are arranged to increase airflow in summer, keeping the house cool without air conditioning. Morning sunlight reaches inside through four large east-facing windows and a hollow ceiling, giving sufficient brightness without electric lights.
Contact
shenboan2005 at gmail dot com