Solar charging station
Solar charging station
The project work Solarstation aimed at planning and building a weatherproof charging station for notebooks and mobile phones, which is self-sufficient in terms of energy via a solar system, on the campus of Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences. The project was part of the 6th semester of the mechanical engineering course.
Prof. Dr. Maurice Kettner was the creator and supervisor of the project, while Ferhat Aslan, Dipl.-Phys., was the contact person for the content and the second supervisor. The student development and design team consisted of three students from the mechanical engineering course. Benedikt Schwär, Dennis Babuschkin and Janis Hartmann were the main actors and project workers. Furthermore, employees of the MMT faculty's in-house workshop as well as Sven Helms contributed to the practical implementation.
The background of the project work dealt with the idea that the future energy systems will be networks consisting of a variety of technologies and applications. The combination of decentralised solutions will result in a significant gain in efficiency, an increase in flexibility and a better utilisation of resources, which can also be maintained at a high level in the long term. Against the background of the digital transformation, the energy turnaround and climate change, a weatherproof charging station for notebooks and mobile phones was developed in this project, which is operated autonomously with the help of a solar system. The structure and construction should also offer interfaces for a variety of other student projects. An example of this could be an internet connection with a Raspberry Pi for the visualisation of important data, the integration of a mobile weather station or also the expansion with a bicycle ergometer (exercise bike) with a generator.
more info in German: documentation and assembly
