UCSD Decision Making using Real-time Observations for Environmental Sustainability (DEMROES)

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DEMROES in the News	UCSD Video (130MB) ESI Newsletter Union Tribune Story
sponsored by	Wells Fargo through the UCSD Environment and Sustainability Initiative	Steve Relyea Vice Chancellor, Business Affairs Paul Linden, Jan Kleissl Faculty, Mechanical Engineering	Johnson Controls
supported by	Don McLaughlin, Ryan Sullivan Telecommunications	John Dilliott, David Weil Building Sustainability, Energy Services	Doug Palmer, Bill Hodgkiss, Don Kimball. CalIT2
	Steve Roberts MAE Electronics & Sensors

Real-time data :
Location: RIMAC, Hubbs Hall, Moores Cancer Center and CMRR rooftops. Time: last 2 days.

Temperature and Humidity	Wind	Solar Radiation, Rain	Textual
			Current Readings RIMAC Hubbs CMRR Moores CC Powell SL EBU2 Biomedical SB Tioga

Google Earth movie of temperature field over the last 24 hours (courtesy of Nick Daish). Save this file to your computer as *.kml, install google earth, and run it.

Meteorological conditions have important implications on human activities. They affect human comfort and productivity (temperature, humidity), health (temperature, air pollution), and contribute to material wear and tear (wind, rain, salt). UCSD's proximity to the Pacific Ocean places it in a temperate microclimate frequently affected by sea breezes which has unique advantages and disadvantages for campus energy use, management, and air quality. In particular the occurrence of sea-breezes in daytime provides cool air eliminating need for widespread building air conditioning and associated energy use, but also advects moist and salt-laden air to campus which negatively affects the lifespan of indoor and outdoor electronic or metal components.

Despite UCSD's established reputation as a center for innovation and world-class research, and environmental sustainability being one of the thrust areas of the Jacobs SOE, we lack scientific knowledge about the occurrence of these microclimatological conditions and their effect on campus facilities management. We are in the process of establishing a student-run wireless sensing network for environment monitoring at UCSD facilities city-wide with the following objectives:

• Use the network as a demo and integrative educational and research system for UCSD students and faculty. The sensor readings should be integrated with the Google Maps application www.ucsd.edu/maps
• Quantify the spatial distribution of meteorological conditions (i.e. sea breeze effect on temperature and humidity) on campus through a dense static network of weather stations.
• Integrate advanced mobile sensing nodes with seismic, infrared, and chemical sensing capability at selected locations.
• Provide campus facilities management with information to feed the energy management system (EMS) for building operation and energy conservation, and irrigation management.
• Extend pilot project into a massive city or regional scale sensing network.