The gathering, storing and dissemination of sun radiation data

Abstract

The aim of the project is to collect solar radiation data from a particular location by the use of a transducer (called a pyranometer), to store this data onto a database and to make the data available to anyone connected to the World Wide Web. The project is the crystallisation of an old idea and a long-held wish of the author's made possible by the insight given and skills taught during the past three years whilst reading for the Masters in ¸£ÀûÔÚÏßÃâ·Ñ Technology degree. In particular, the author considers the following Credits to be instrumental in making this project a reality: • BIT5101 Computer Systems; • BIT5106 Signal Analysis and Measurements; • BIT5204 Computer Modelling of Continuous Physical Systems; • BIT5301 Applied Web Engineering and e-Business techniques. A wide range of programming language generations has been utilised in this project: low level PIC programming, through imperative GW-BASIC (popular in the MSDOS days of the 1980s) to the latest object-oriented version of PHP. It is considered that this is but the start of a life-long project: it is hoped that further work will be undertaken in order to improve-upon and expand-upon these first steps.