Moxa is proud to sponsor Stevens Institute of Technology as it competes in the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon 2015, an award-winning program that challenges collegiate teams to design, build, and operate solar-powered houses that are cost-effective, energy-efficient, and attractive.
Moxa will provide its industrial hardened networking equipment to Stevens Institute of Technology students as they build their entry, SURE HOUSE, a sustainable, resilient house for coastal communities engineered in response to the 2012 Hurricane Sandy tragedy that took the lives of 158 people and caused more than $65 billion in damage. For example, SURE HOUSE will sit on a bed of pilotis (ground-level supporting columns) to slightly elevate it out of reach of flooding, plus have durable flood-shielding incorporated into the outer layers of the house to create a waterproof shell.
Jim Toepper, Moxa's Business Development Manager for the Power Market, commented, "We are excited to lend Moxa expertise to this critically important project. We recognize SURE HOUSE is not just a contest entry for Stevens students but a demonstration showing future generations of innovators how to build in a world affected by a changing climate, and a chance for them to do their part to help the New Jersey Shore bounce back from the damaging effects of Hurricane Sandy."
AJ Elliott，STEVENS产品建筑工程计划中的研究生们表示，“我们拥有一台计算机科学高级设计团队，使用Moxa设备设计一个非常深入的家庭监控系统。通过该系统，我们正在监控我们的分支电源消耗和众多室内和室外环境数据点。此数据对于验证我们家庭的表现并衡量房屋在天气事件和停电期间如何持有。我们希望该系统尽可能低于太阳能迪卡侬竞争有严谨的能源限制。鉴于与传统的家庭监控系统相比，我们在做什么范围，我们真的需要转向工业控制世界中使用的Moxa产品。“
Once built, SURE HOUSE will merge inherently efficient indoor/outdoor rooms and an open floor plan of the quintessential 60's style modern beach cottage with state of the art building science, the latest renewable energy technologies, and fiber-composite materials repurposed from the boat building industry. The result is a home armored against extreme weather that uses 90% less energy than its conventional cousins, powers itself through clean solar energy, and in the aftermath of a storm becomes a hub for emergency power to the neighborhood.
As part of its sponsorship, Moxa contributed critical elements that will assist the project in achieving its goals of being fully solar powered and storm resistant. A Moxa UC-8100 wireless computer with LTE module and an EDS series network switch provide a low-power solution for cellular network connectivity, datalogger queries, database logging, and HTML page hosting. The UC-8100 is Verizon LTE-certified and is currently available for purchase and testing through a starter kit program.
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