{"id":101713,"key":"Design_of_a_low-cost_mobile_multispectral_albedometer_with_geopositioning_and_absolute_orientation","title":"Design of a low-cost mobile multispectral albedometer with geopositioning and absolute orientation","latest":{"id":1273629,"timestamp":"2026-09-16T14:27:23Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"{{Solar footer}}\n\n{{FAST notice}}\n\n[[File:Albedoga.png|thumb|Graphical abstract for Design of a low-cost mobile multispectral albedometer with geopositioning and absolute orientation]]\n\n{{Publication data\n| type = Paper\n| cite-as = J.S. Botero-Valencia, M. Mejia-Herrera, Joshua M. Pearce, Design of a low-cost mobile multispectral albedometer with geopositioning and absolute orientation, ''HardwareX'', 12, 2022, e00324 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ohx.2022.e00324. [https://www.academia.edu/81535184/Design_of_a_low_cost_mobile_multispectral_albedometer_with_geopositioning_and_absolute_orientation Academia OA]\n}}\n\n{{Project data\n| authors = J.S. Botero-Valencia, M. Mejia-Herrera, User:J.M.Pearce\n| location = London, Ontario, Canada\n| status = Designed, Modelled, Prototyped, Verified\n| made = Yes\n| replicated = No\n| years = 2022\n| uses = 3D Printing\n| type = 3D Printing\n}}\n\nAlbedo is the percentage of radiation that a given surface reflects. Its study is important to evaluate thermal effects in buildings, generation capacity with bifacial panels, among others. In this work, the design and validation of a low-cost mobile albedometer is presented, which measures the reflection in 8 spectral bands in the visible, additionally the system is equipped with a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver, to reference its position and an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) to know its absolute orientation, make corrections in real time or detect errors. The purpose of designing the mobile device is to measure a larger area and, since it is georeferenced, it is to feed GIS tools that allow designers to use the information.\n\n* Full source Available online: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/BVJH2\n* Subject areas: [[Engineering]], Instrumentation, Internet of things\n* Hardware type: Measuring physical properties and in-lab sensors, Field measurements and sensors, Electrical engineering and computer science\n* Open source license:\tCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license\t\n* Cost of hardware: USD 179.24\t\n\n{{Pearce publications notice}}\n\n== Keywords ==\n\n Internet of Things (IoT); Meteorology; Climatic variables; environmental variables; low cost; 3-D printing; open hardware; environmental monitoring; sensing; environmental sensing; additive manufacturing; smart agriculture; Absolute orientation; albedometer; geopositioning; multispectral measurement; photovoltaic energy; reflectivity\n\n== See also ==\n\n* [[Applications of Open Source 3-D Printing on Small Farms]]\n* [[Open-Source Script for Design and 3D Printing of Porous Structures for Soil Science]]\n* [[Low-cost air, noise, and light pollution measuring station with wireless communication and tinyML]]\n* [[Open-source three-dimensional IoT anemometer for indoor air quality monitoring]]\n* [[Low-cost embedded system for spectral power distribution reconstruction for controlled environmental agriculture using a multispectral sensor and cloud-based deep learning]]\n\n{{Pearce-agrivoltaics}}\n\n{{Page data\n| title-tag = Low-Cost Multispectral Albedometer with Geopositioning\n| part-of = FAST Completed\n| keywords = agrivoltaic, distributed manufacturing, farming, gardening, open hardware, photovoltaic, recycling, 3D printing, Distributed manufacturing, Climatic variables, environmental variables, Internet of Things (IoT), low cost, environmental monitoring, sensing, environmental sensing, additive manufacturing, smart agriculture, Absolute orientation, albedometer, geopositioning, multispectral measurement, photovoltaic energy, reflectivity\n| sdg = SDG07 Affordable and clean energy, SDG09 Industry innovation and infrastructure\n| published = 2022\n| organizations = Free Appropriate Sustainable Technology, Western, Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano\n| license = CC-BY-SA-4.0\n| language = en\n}}\n\n[[Category:Distributed manufacturing]]\n[[Category:Farming]]\n[[Category:Gardening]]\n[[Category:Open hardware]]\n[[Category:Recycling]]\n[[Category:3D printing]]\n[[Category:Environmental monitoring]]"}