Locations: RIMAC, Hubbs Hall, Moores Cancer Center, CMRR, Tioga Hall, Powell Structures Lab, EBU2, Biomedical Science Building. Time: last 2 days.
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Current Readings RIMAC Hubbs CMRR Moores CC Powell SL EBU2 Biomedical SB Tioga |
Google Earth movie of temperature , relative humidity , and solar power maps over the last 24 hours (courtesy of Nick Daish). Save these files to your computer as *.kml, install google earth, and run it.
| DEMROES in the News | UCSD Video (130MB)
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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 have established 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.
