Monitoring the Effective Ambient and Sky Temperature Based on Infrared Sensor for Advanced Thermal Calculations

Abstract:

Building performance simulations and advanced thermal analysis are becoming the basis for a well-established practice of a building sector. This approach requires many input data which are typically not available on site. Apart from already well-practiced climate variable quantities, such as ambient temperature, solar radiation and parameters of wind, more complex data are needed for advanced building thermal analysis. One of those is based on longwave radiation level. A pyrgeometer is a device that measures longwave radiation part of whole thermal radiation phenomena. This can be determined based on sky or effective ambient temperature monitoring. Secondly, both variables might be approximated by infrared sensors as an applicable option in the calculation of longwave radiation heat exchange between the external surface and the ambient building environment. The paper presents data obtained both by pyrgeometer and infrared sensor corresponding to their mutual comparison to demonstrate its application when longwave radiation exchange needs to be calculated or analyzed in advanced. Integrating of the infrared sensor with aim to monitor the effective ambient and/or sky temperature enables its applicability as an alternative, integrated and less cost consuming method towards the monitoring by commercial pyrgeometer.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 887)
• Pages: 613-621
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.887.613
• Online since: January 2019
• Authors: Richard Slávik*, Miroslav Čekon
• Keywords: Infrared Thermometer, IR Sensor, Longwave Radiation, Pyrgeometer

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