Smart Table

Smart Table is an outdoor solar powered charge station, that monitors environmental parameters and then compares them to the power production of the photovoltaic system. A personally designed and built picnic table will lay the platform for this project whose goal is to involve the community and promote sustainable energy. The environmental parameters being monitored are solar cell temperature, ambient temperature, light intensity, and barometric pressure. This stored data can be of use to environmental studies for analysis, management, and for preparing solutions to environmental issues the global community currently faces. The optimal environment for solar panel power production is on a cool clear day with high light intensity. This project will demonstrate how other non-optimal environments affect the power production of a solar powered off-grid system.