Open Data Solar Themal Meter for Smart Cities
Abstract
In the near future, with the introduction of the Smart City concept, all systems and elements placed in a city will publish their performance data through open platforms. This paper presents an open data solar thermal meter component for the Smart City platform Sentilo. The solar meter includes four different sensors with instantaneous values of the solar energy yield, equivalent CO2 emissions savings, economical savings and system status. The paper describes the solar meter and how it is implemented within Sentilo, gives directions on how to create a solar meter using the data of any on-line connected solar thermal system, and gives examples on the data obtained from several solar thermal meters installed in different cities nearby Barcelona.
Keywords
Open data, Solar thermal meter, Sentilo, Smart cities