Vertum supports Informatics Senior Capstone Winter 2017 Project Showcase at University of California, Irvine (UCI)
March 2017
Vertum has completed a second student project at UCI with students (team Soltech) from Informatics191 and professor Hadar Ziv. The project focused on creating a web application designed for both students and professionals that looks at how weather, and in particular temperature, affects energy production and consumption at a community level. This project’s focus was on solar energy.
The team broke the City of Anaheim into 12 zones, and captured temperatures for each zone using the Inverse Distance Weighting Interpolation Method. With this data they were able to create a heat map for the city of Anaheim. Combined with electricity data it will allow both communities and utilities to see the affects of temperature on the production and use of solar energy. This prediction could help save millions of dollars by reducing the over/under production of energy by the utilities that is predicted as needed by the communities.
The student side of the application allows for students to be student scientists by recording temperature readings at their location that can be used to help validate temperatures for their zone. It also serves as an educational tool to encourage students to explore the sciences by using leaderboards, achievements, and learning pages.
Thank you Team Soltech on a successful project.