Projecto de gestão de energia do edifício da Penteada na Universidade da Madeira

• Autor(a) principal: Freitas, Adriano Gonçalo Lopes da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.13/1554
• topic: Energy monitoring system; Building energy consumption; Sensors; CAN Bus; mbed; Sistema de monitorização de energia; Consumo de energia edifícios; Sensores; Universidade da Madeira; Engenharia Informática; .; Faculdade de Ciências Exatas e da Engenharia; Domínio/Área Científica::Engenharia e Tecnologia::Engenharia Eletrotécnica, Eletrónica e Informática

Today, the management of energy resources is increasingly seen as one of the major challenges of humanity. With the successive increase in the cost of energy in Portugal, it is essential to monitor and take necessary and important actions for the effective reduction of energy consumption. This master thesis describes the development and testes the monitoring energy system at the building of Penteada at the University of Madeira, using low-cost generic components and open source software for its implementation and use does not represent additional costs. In this work is made the monitoring energy consumption in the building of Penteada at the University of Madeira, through the installation of multiple current sensors at strategic points, where passes the totality of energy consumed in order to collect the energy consumption in the building and use them to construct a data base for future reference, contributing to compare the intake at different times and obtain a saving in terms of costs and power consumption. We resorted to the mbed microcontroller to do the processing and delivery in real-time the data obtained through the current sensors, and the microchip CAN (Controller Area Network) to create a physical network to support the sending of data between various microcontrollers mbed and the computer (with the database).