Temporal Derivative Soft-Sensing and Reconstructing Solar Radiation and Heat Flux from Common Environmental Sensors

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author DeSilva, Neksha
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contents Modern methods of environmental monitoring are deficient in the lack of ability to take measurements of energy flows since traditional readings involve capturing parameters such as temperature, pressure, and humidity without considering their physical causes. The present research describes Differential Temporal Derivative Soft-Sensing (DTDSS), a physics-based approach which enables any ordinary low cost sensor array to infer estimates of the energy exchange in the environment by modeling its radiative heat fluxes. In particular, the proposed approach combines a novel paired sensor configuration along with a unique algorithmic solution called Inertial Noise Reduction or INR, that mathematically models the flow of energy in the environment by computing Global Horizontal Irradiance, or GHI, and convective heat flux. Experimental field testing has been conducted with the use of calibrated reference pyranometers supplied by the Department of Meteorology of Sri Lanka, yielding a correspondence between 8 bit embedded processor results and the reference of R2 approx. eqv. to 0.9 and RMSE approx. eqv. to 45 Watts per square meter in under 2KB RAM of a microcontroller unit.
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spellingShingle Temporal Derivative Soft-Sensing and Reconstructing Solar Radiation and Heat Flux from Common Environmental Sensors
DeSilva, Neksha
Systems and Control
Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
Applied Physics
Modern methods of environmental monitoring are deficient in the lack of ability to take measurements of energy flows since traditional readings involve capturing parameters such as temperature, pressure, and humidity without considering their physical causes. The present research describes Differential Temporal Derivative Soft-Sensing (DTDSS), a physics-based approach which enables any ordinary low cost sensor array to infer estimates of the energy exchange in the environment by modeling its radiative heat fluxes. In particular, the proposed approach combines a novel paired sensor configuration along with a unique algorithmic solution called Inertial Noise Reduction or INR, that mathematically models the flow of energy in the environment by computing Global Horizontal Irradiance, or GHI, and convective heat flux. Experimental field testing has been conducted with the use of calibrated reference pyranometers supplied by the Department of Meteorology of Sri Lanka, yielding a correspondence between 8 bit embedded processor results and the reference of R2 approx. eqv. to 0.9 and RMSE approx. eqv. to 45 Watts per square meter in under 2KB RAM of a microcontroller unit.
title Temporal Derivative Soft-Sensing and Reconstructing Solar Radiation and Heat Flux from Common Environmental Sensors
topic Systems and Control
Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
Applied Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15352