I have a solarium attached to my house. This space in unheated
with little insulation. In the summer, the space is too hot and in
the winter it is too cold.
I am going to undertake a project to monitor and manage the
temperature and humidity of the room so that it can be used more
throughout the year. I want to monitor the temperature and
humidity at different points of the room, the adjoining rooms, and
the outside. Based on these readings I want to move warm air into
the house during the winter or open up the skylights to exhaust
excess heat in the summer.
For the first phase of the project I will create sensors to
measure the temperature and humidity. I want these sensors to be
able to communicate readings to a computer or smartphone. In the
second phase of the project, I'd like for these sensors to
communicate with controls to either start a fan to move warm air
from the solarium into the house on cold days or to open up the
skylights to exhaust hot air outside of the house.