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Development of a nano-size off-grid energy system using renewables and IoT technologies at the Meteoria visitor center: A Finnish case study

The increased utilization of non-renewable energy during the last century has influenced the climate, with increased carbon dioxide emissions and elevated temperature as a result. Thus, the need to develop and demonstrate new sustainable solutions regarding both energy supply and consumption, but al...

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Autores principales: Tuuf, Jessica, Lindén, Hans, Lieskoski, Sami, Björklund-Sänkiaho, Margareta
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10660097/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38027655
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e21473
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author Tuuf, Jessica
Lindén, Hans
Lieskoski, Sami
Björklund-Sänkiaho, Margareta
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description The increased utilization of non-renewable energy during the last century has influenced the climate, with increased carbon dioxide emissions and elevated temperature as a result. Thus, the need to develop and demonstrate new sustainable solutions regarding both energy supply and consumption, but also energy system optimization, is obvious. This case study presents the nano-size off-grid energy system at the Meteoria visitor center in Ostrobothnia, Finland, and the real-time measuring techniques that have been installed to follow up the energy production and consumption. The Meteoria consists of several buildings, which are open to the public from April to October. The case site is operated by energy derived from wind power, solar power, and a diesel generator (as a backup), with batteries for energy storage. The Internet of Things (IoT) has been retrofitted to the existing energy system to enable energy measurements and follow various electrical parameters in real-time. In addition, a graphical visualization platform open to the public has been developed. In this study, the completeness of data sampling and the IoT system was checked, and the results show high availability of data. Furthermore, various errors/limitations regarding the IoT system were identified. The energy supply/demand at the Meteoria in 2021 was monitored and the challenges regarding the existing energy system in a cold climate zone are discussed as well as the potential role of the Meteoria to function as a living lab.
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spelling pubmed-106600972023-10-31 Development of a nano-size off-grid energy system using renewables and IoT technologies at the Meteoria visitor center: A Finnish case study Tuuf, Jessica Lindén, Hans Lieskoski, Sami Björklund-Sänkiaho, Margareta Heliyon Research Article The increased utilization of non-renewable energy during the last century has influenced the climate, with increased carbon dioxide emissions and elevated temperature as a result. Thus, the need to develop and demonstrate new sustainable solutions regarding both energy supply and consumption, but also energy system optimization, is obvious. This case study presents the nano-size off-grid energy system at the Meteoria visitor center in Ostrobothnia, Finland, and the real-time measuring techniques that have been installed to follow up the energy production and consumption. The Meteoria consists of several buildings, which are open to the public from April to October. The case site is operated by energy derived from wind power, solar power, and a diesel generator (as a backup), with batteries for energy storage. The Internet of Things (IoT) has been retrofitted to the existing energy system to enable energy measurements and follow various electrical parameters in real-time. In addition, a graphical visualization platform open to the public has been developed. In this study, the completeness of data sampling and the IoT system was checked, and the results show high availability of data. Furthermore, various errors/limitations regarding the IoT system were identified. The energy supply/demand at the Meteoria in 2021 was monitored and the challenges regarding the existing energy system in a cold climate zone are discussed as well as the potential role of the Meteoria to function as a living lab. Elsevier 2023-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC10660097/ /pubmed/38027655 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e21473 Text en © 2023 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Development of a nano-size off-grid energy system using renewables and IoT technologies at the Meteoria visitor center: A Finnish case study
title Development of a nano-size off-grid energy system using renewables and IoT technologies at the Meteoria visitor center: A Finnish case study
title_full Development of a nano-size off-grid energy system using renewables and IoT technologies at the Meteoria visitor center: A Finnish case study
title_fullStr Development of a nano-size off-grid energy system using renewables and IoT technologies at the Meteoria visitor center: A Finnish case study
title_full_unstemmed Development of a nano-size off-grid energy system using renewables and IoT technologies at the Meteoria visitor center: A Finnish case study
title_short Development of a nano-size off-grid energy system using renewables and IoT technologies at the Meteoria visitor center: A Finnish case study
title_sort development of a nano-size off-grid energy system using renewables and iot technologies at the meteoria visitor center: a finnish case study
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10660097/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38027655
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e21473
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