HR: 1340h
AN: H13A-0972    [Abstracts]
TI: Decision-Making Using Real-Time Observations for Environmental Sustainability; an integrated 802.11 sensor network
AU: * Dominguez, A
AF: MAE, Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093,
AU: Kleissl, J
AF: MAE, Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093,
AU: Farhadi, M
AF: MAE, Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093,
AU: Kim, D
AF: ECE, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093,
AU: Liu, W
AF: MAE, Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093,
AU: Mao, Y (
AF: ECE, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093,
AU: Nguyen, H T
AF: ECE, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093,
AU: Roshandell, M
AF: MAE, Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093,
AU: Sankur, M
AF: MAE, Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093,
AU: Shiga, Y
AF: MAE, Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093,
AU: Linden, P
AF: MAE, Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093,
AU: Hodgkiss, W
AF: ECE, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093,
AB: Meteorological conditions have important implications on human activities. They affect human comfort, productivity, and health, and contribute to material wear and tear. The University of California, San Diego (UCSD)'s proximity to the Pacific Ocean places it in a temperate microclimate which has unique advantages and disadvantages for campus water and energy use and air quality. In particular, the daily sea-breezes provide cool, moist, and salt-laden air to campus. For the Decision-Making Using Real-Time Observations for Environmental Sustainability (DEMROES) project a heterogeneous wireless network of monitoring stations is being set up across the UCSD campus and beyond. Conditions to be monitored include temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, surface temperatures, solar radiation, particulate matter, CO, NO2, rainfall, and soil moisture. Stations are strategically placed on rooftops and lampposts across campus, as well as select off-campus locations and will transmit data over the UCSD 802.11 wireless network. In addition to rooftop and lamppost stations, mobile stations will be deployed via remotely controlled ground and air units, and stations affixed to campus shuttle busses. These mobile stations will allow for greater spatial resolution of the environmental conditions across campus and inter-sensor calibration. The hardware consists of meteorological, hydrological, and air quality sensors connected to (a) commercial Campbell datalogging systems with serial2IP modules and wireless bridges, and (b) sensor and 802.11 boards based on the dpac technology developed in-house. The measurements will serve campus facilities management with information to feed the energy management system (EMS) for building operation and energy conservation, and irrigation management. The technology developed for this project can be applied elsewhere thereby contributing to hydrologic and ecologic observatories. Through extensive student involvement a new generation of environmental scientists and engineers will be trained to work on the planning and execution of national observatories.
UR: http://maeresearch.ucsd.edu/kleissl/demroes
DE: 1833 Hydroclimatology
DE: 1843 Land/atmosphere interactions (1218, 1631, 3322)
DE: 1848 Monitoring networks
DE: 1895 Instruments and techniques: monitoring
SC: Hydrology [H]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting