Análise de uma plataforma de monitoramento de condições climáticas com o intuito de fomentar dados visando o desenvolvimento do discente da UFC - Campus Crateús

Abstract

The conception of practical activities that represent the reality faced by UFC graduates on Campus Crateús is a current pedagogical need in the practice of teaching on the Campus. Generally, although it is necessary to carry out practical activities during the graduate’straining cycle, as demonstrated by the Pedagogical Project of the Environmental and SanitaryEngineering Course (PPC), the commercial instruments used to carry out such activities havea high acquisition and maintenance cost, making it difficult to consolidate a curriculum that ismore contextualized with current needs and with the New Curriculum Guidelines for EngineeringCourses. Thus, the objective of this work was to analyze the technical feasibility of building a low-costsystem for monitoring and characterizing photovoltaic systems for educational and scientificpurposes. In this way, the use of the Arduino platform made it possible to carry out the present graduation project, in view of its low acquisition and operation cost and its prototyping that has the ability to perform simple or complex works with the use of specific sensors. Thus, this project is a design science based on the validation of the data collected in the designed prototype. The project methodology was divided into 3 stages: a) Data collection procedure, where the sensors were connected to the platform and its operating schedule, namely: YL-83 rain sensor, temperature sensor and humidity DHT11, temperature sensor DS18B20, voltage and current sensor and a photovoltaic module so that the data can be obtained; b) Data analysis, where data processing and calibration took place and; c) Release for use, where a spreadsheet in .xlsx format was released on the google sheets platform for consultation free of charge. From the data collected it can be concluded that the platform used returned a positive result given its good reproducibility when comparing the data obtained with those provided by the National Institute of Meteorology (INMET), proving the efficiency of the Arduino platform with low cost sensors , due to the occurrence of small variations when compared to high cost systems. Thus, the feasibility of using automatic systems for capturing atmospheric information as a pedagogical tool for the qualification of graduates in the area of energy management and monitoring of climatic conditions was verified.