SOLAR POWERING OF A MOBILE TELEMETRY STATION FOR AIR QUALITY MONITORING

Vasco Carvalho, F. Corrêa Alegria

Abstract

A mobile station has been designed to monitor the air quality. Several of those stations are to be installed on the rooftop of taxis and buses in order to build a real time map of the air quality of a city. The modules are equipped with gas concentration measurement modules for 5 different gases (CO, NO₂, O₃, SO₂, and CO₂), GPS receivers for localization, GSM/GPRS modules for communication and solar panels/batteries for completely autonomous operation. Here we describe in detail the choices made and the problems encountered in the design of the solar powering system for this mobile station.

Keywords

air quality, solar panel, measurement system

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TC19 - Environmental Measurements

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