I-Corps: A solar radiation and sky condition monitoring system

这个I-Corps项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是为天气、气候、空气质量和太阳能应用提供太阳辐射和天空状况的精确测量。I-Corps项目能够准确监测和了解由于云层覆盖、气溶胶负荷和其他大气气体对太阳能发电至关重要的太阳辐射的内在变化。这项技术和相关的数据分析使太阳能生产商、开发商、分销商和研究人员能够改进太阳能预测，提高太阳能电池板的效率，降低运营和维护成本，并有可能增加太阳能进入电网的渗透率。I-Corps项目将使客户能够发现一项核心技术，该技术将多通道辐射计和天空成像仪集成到阴影带扫描智能系统中。该智能系统测量太阳辐射的光谱和角度分布以及气象参数，以监测太阳辐射和天气状况。它还结合了通信、计算、遥感和高级分析，并响应来自当前环境的反馈，以提供更高的准确性和性能。因此，它代表了对现有方法/系统的多重改进。这样可以更准确地检索大气中气溶胶、云、臭氧和水蒸气的光学特性。拟议的活动将推动天气、气候、空气质量和太阳能方面的科学技术。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is to provide accurate measurements of solar radiation and sky condition for weather, climate, air quality, and solar energy applications. The I-Corps project enables accurate monitoring and understanding of the inherent variability of solar radiation due to cloud cover, aerosol loading, and other atmospheric gases that are essential for determining solar energy generation. The technology and associated data analytics enable solar energy producers, developers, distributors, and researchers to improve solar energy prediction, to enhance solar panel efficiency, to reduce operation and maintenance costs, and to potnetially increase the penetration of solar energy into the power grid.This I-Corps project will enable customer discovery for a core technology which integrates a multi-channel radiometer and a sky imager into a shadowband scanning smart system. This smart system measures spectral and angular solar radiation distribution and meteorological parameters for monitoring solar radiation and weather conditions. It also combines communication, computing, remote sensing, and advanced analytics, and responds to feedback from the prevailing environment to deliver improved accuracy and performance. Thereby, it represents a multi-fold improvement over existing methods/systems. This enables more accurate retrievals of optical properties of aerosol, cloud, ozone, and water vapor in the atmosphere. The proposed activities will advance science and technology in weather, climate, air quality, and solar energy.