Print Email Facebook Twitter Solar powered weather station Title Solar powered weather station: Power management Author van der Meulen, Maarten (TU Delft Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science) van der Biezen, Tibbe (TU Delft Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science) Contributor Manganiello, P. (mentor) Muttillo, M. (mentor) Ghaffarian Niasar, M. (graduation committee) Zuñiga Zamalloa, M.A. (graduation committee) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Date 2021-06-30 Abstract Due to the current trend of urbanization more people will come and live in cities than ever before. This increases the need to monitor the urban environment, to be able to improve the living conditions of the urban dwellers. Our project combines the need to monitor the local environment, with a portable, self-powered and wireless weather station. The final design consists of a solar powered and WiFi-connected weather station with autonomous functionality for one year. For our research, the focus was on the Netherlands. Part of such a project is the power management which will be dealt with in this thesis. In the thesis, different maximum power point tracking algorithms will be discussed and compared. Furthermore, some more research is done in the hardware design, the use of different evaluation boards and battery configurations. Finally, a prototype using the incremental conductance algorithm is constructed and tested. Simulations lead to an efficiency of around 80%, which means autonomous functionality for a minimum of one year. The physical system had a lower efficiency, but autonomous functionality for one year was still achieved. Subject power managementsolar powerMPPT To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:4cda0c20-5757-4336-92c2-e9295eb57c76 Part of collection Student theses Document type bachelor thesis Rights © 2021 Maarten van der Meulen, Tibbe van der Biezen Files PDF BAP_Thesis_Tibbe_Maarten.pdf 4.82 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:4cda0c20-5757-4336-92c2-e9295eb57c76/datastream/OBJ/view