The SEAR Lab's own building systems serve as a teaching and research testbed. Students collect data from the lab's rooftop solar, electricity use, weather, water heater and air conditioning, analyze it, and learn to control it.
These are the projects and publications we have done in this area. Each project links to its full page on erickjonesphd.com, and each publication links to the paper.
Projects
Lab Energy System: Production, Use and Control
The lab's rooftop solar as live data
Opens on erickjonesphd.com ↗
Solar Farm Analytics: How Reused Panels Hold Up
How reused solar panels hold up
Opens on erickjonesphd.com ↗
Publications
- Murkute, S.S., & Bastola, A. (2025). Measuring Microgrid Degradation: Collecting Meteorological and Microinverter Data. Proceedings of the IISE Annual Conference & Expo 2025, 471–476. Paper