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    The object of the invention is the creation of an ambient temperature detection method by means of equipment that internally possesses an operating temperature sensor of the electronics or the like. It is a method belonging to the technical sector of climatic and meteorological systems, of the radiofrequency systems as well as the electronic systems sector. By means of this method it is possible to detect the ambient temperature in a geographical area without the need of equipment designed specifically for that purpose, giving added value to deployed systems and in use for other purposes such as the sending of information. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)
    公开号:ES2678668A1
    申请号:ES201700134
    申请日:2017-02-15
    公开日:2018-08-16
    发明作者:Ivan Daniel GUERRA MORENO；Juan Luis NAVARRO MESA；Eduardo HERNÁNDEZ PÉREZ；Antonio Gabriel RAVELO GARCÍA
    申请人:Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria；
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     1. TITLE OF THE INVENTION ENVIRONMENT TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT METHOD BASED ON EXTERNAL DEVICES WITH DEVICE OPERATING TEMPERATURE METERS 5 11. TECHNICAL SECTOR Field of application: Climate and meteorological systems Radio frequency systems 10 Scientific or technical area : T the eco mutations Meteorology Climatology Activity sector. 15 Method for estimating / measuring meteorological / climatic events 11. STATE OF THE TECHNIQUE The monitoring and study of meteorology and all those factors that affect climate change 20 require huge amounts of data to obtain good results from modeling systems . One of the most common forms of collection is through weather stations at specific points or locations. The distribution of stations has a moderate economic cost although this is increased when a network is deployed over large areas becoming a considerable expense its implementation and maintenance. 25 In addition, it needs continuous maintenance, as well as some means of real-time transmission of the captured data. Other weather event capture systems are based on both terrestrial and aerial and satellite radar systems, satellite images, etc. The stations add the advantage of covering much wider areas, although at the cost of greater economic expense in their implementation and maintenance. 30 The methods of measuring the point ambient temperature (in specific geographical locations) can be divided into two large groups according to the location of the measuring sensor with respect to the point at which it is measured: 35 1) Direct measurement at the point where you want to measure , its operation is widely known and is based on the use of sensors such as thermometers or the like; 2) Indirect measurement in which the sensors are not directly exposed to the environment. The method we propose is framed within the second group, and part of the temperature measurements obtained inside a device, for example, in the devices DESCRIPTIONcalled OOUs (Outdoor Oevice Unit). The OOUs are devices integrated in the communications radio-relay equipment and its temperature sensor is intended to provide information related to the quality of operation of said equipment. In recent years, new ways of indirectly estimating the ambient temperature have appeared through methods based on devices that have internal operating temperature meters. This is the case of the estimation of the ambient temperature from the measurements of the temperature of the mobile phone batteries and their internal thermistors (Overeem, A., JCR Robinson, H. Leijnse, GJ Steeneveld, BKP Horn, and R Uijlenhoet (2013), Crowdsourcing urban air temperatures from smartphone battery 10 temperatures, Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, 4081-4085, doi: 10.1002 / grl.50786.). Other methods for the estimation of meteorological events by means of independent factors can be found in the estimation of precipitation through the attenuations that occur in the communication gap between two antennas, Rainfall foundation monitoring method based on GNSS signal depolarization effect CN 103616736 AY 15 Monitoring and mapping of atmospheric phenomena EP 1902530 A2 (text of W02007007312A2). This method is based on one of the power level parameters received in the OOU which is the receiving power or RSL (Received Signal Level). Unlike the method described in the previous paragraph of radio-link precipitation detection, this method presented here does not take into account the characteristics of the span between radio links, but the properties due to materials, electronics, operation and location among others parameters for the estimation of the ambient temperature. The method of estimating the ambient temperature that we present takes advantage of the internal temperature levels of the electronics measured by sensors installed inside the device, such as in OOU devices, to calculate the temperature of the outdoor environment without installing a device direct measurement in the vicinity. The OOUs (Outdoor Oevice Unit) devices have the purpose of preprocessing the radio frequency signal and converting said signals. The radio-relay equipment has devices for telemetry, and monitoring of operation such as the levels of power received, signal to noise ratio and operating voltages. Among these devices 30 is the one in charge of measuring the temperature of the internal electronics of the OOU (OOU temperature) with a sensor to that effect. 111. SUMMARY. DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The method we propose represents a new way of measuring room temperature. It carries the added value of a low cost thanks to the use of the 35 devices, such as radio frequency equipment, it can be taken advantage of that, once installed, they are in continuous or discontinuous operation as appropriate. The starting point is to take advantage of the internal temperature control sensor of the device electronics. In the case of radiocommunication networks, an already installed network is used that has its own communication channels for signal quality data for use in real-time observation and processing. It is thus possible to give added value to an already implanted system, and with an independent maintenance of meteorological product to be measured since its main function is to maintain communications. When the sensor is encapsulated inside the device, the temperature measurement of the device is affected by two types of factors: 1) The internal electronics which, in turn, are conditioned by the operation of the system (reception and transmission in the OOU case); and 2) By the outside temperature. The proposed method allows to calculate the temperature of the environment outside the device from these temperature data. The method captures the internal temperature data of the device and through the incorporation of statistical processing and learning techniques and algorithms, will allow measuring the ambient temperature. Apart from the advantages described above, the method will allow a higher spatial resolution of the temperature maps. In addition, it will allow to have a source of informationContinuous weather data in geographical areas with low or no density of weather stations. IV-A. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The exposed method for the detection of ambient temperature in a geographical region. 5 It consists of three stages mainly: Supply of control parameters and or quality of some type of previously existing device not designed for the measurement of the ambient temperature in a given region, the monitoring stage of the control parameters and performance of the previously named devices and finally the processing of the control parameters and the geographical parameters of the region where the devices are located in order to obtain the events or events to be detected. For this, the method will begin with the introduction of the parameters of the devices such as their dimensions, materials and other manufacturing characteristics. Such devices have the characteristic of being previously installed outside in a known geographical location. For example, the outdoor unit (ODU) equipment, which is connected to the communication antennas directly attached to them or close to them by means of a short waveguide cable. The device can be part of an equipment system, such as microwave-based communication systems. And it is characterized by not having been designed for measuring the ambient temperature. 20 The monitoring of the control parameters includes the extraction of the components of the internal temperature of the device, for example, the temperature that is produced inside the ODU electronics. It is possible to decompose said temperature into its internal and external components. The internal temperature will depend on the electronics and therefore on the working modes of the device. In the case of the ODU of an antenna mainly in the 25 stages of reception, transmission or modification of frequencies. This temperature will be limited by the continent of the entire device mentioned above. The external temperature is mainly due to two factors, the ambient temperature surrounding the device and the temperature due to the sun's rays that affect said device or ODU. The processing of these signals by the exposed method is based on at least one mathematical model that can be linear or non-linear that relates the temperature of the device to the temperature of the outside environment surrounding the device. This exterior includes the area or perimeter where the device is located. The processing of the parameters makes its calculation based on the theoretical temperature of the device due to the operation it is currently performing and through learning algorithms based on the temperatures of that region where said device is located. In the same way, the system performs self-adjustments at times of least solar radiation, at the night stage, where only the ambient temperature and the operation of the device are the main ones. One aspect of the invention refers to an apparatus that includes at least one electronic device and that implements the method of processing the control, temporal and geographic parameters. The electronic device may be a computer, general purpose processor, a digital signal processor (DSP), a specific application integrated circuit (A SIC), a programmable gate network (FPGA) or a combination thereof. The general purpose processor 45 may be a microprocessor, a microcontroller or any state machine or a combination thereof. IV-B BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The invention provides a solution to the measurement of temperature in certain places where there is no coverage of monitoring systems for meteorological variables or said coverage is very scarce.The method comprises the procedures for recording the internal temperature levels within the device and which is used in this invention to calculate the outside air temperature thanks to statistical techniques of data processing and other processes. The state of the art does not include solutions such as the one detailed in this invention making use of a novel method that allows the measurement of the temperature variable with instrumentation already used for other functions. IV. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF A PREFERRED EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION The method makes it possible to acquire information on the weather conditions treated therein. Adding a new layer of information of low cost and very low maintenance for the acquisition of data for temperature models. The main recipients are the companies, both those that design the antennas and ODUs as well as the owners of the communications networks or the devices, in both situations allowing them to have a new product in the form of sensory data packages. This product is potentially "salable" (change salable) both to the general public 15 through mobile apps and to meteorological agencies and equivalents for their weather models. A possible example or more specific implementation would be the remote capture of the control and quality parameters of a radio link communications network via IP. A request would be made to each of the individual input device Unit IDUs of the telecommunications network, which is physically connected to the ODU, which supplies the quality parameters. The capturing equipment, which could be a personal computer, a dedicated server or hardware, is the system in which the model would be implemented, would be responsible for extracting the relevant information, for example, the ODU Temperature, and storing the results in Some type of database (database). This data from the BBDD will be 25 the final product. The way in which the quality data of each of the devices is converted into climatological or meteorological information has been explained above in the description of the invention. SAW. DESCRIPTION OF THE CONTENT OF FIGURES 30 FIG. 1. Microwave antenna schematic. 1st Antenna front with protective cover (Radome). 1b Rear of the antenna. 1c Outdoor De vice Unit -ODU FIG. 2 Result of the method processing where the single ODU temperature signal is divided into two descriptive signals of the result. The correlation between the ambient temperature and the estimated ambient temperature 35 by the model can be seen in the upper graph. While in the Graph below you can see the extraction of the relevant information for the detection of individual solar irradiation of one of the ODUs. 40 FIG. 3. Quantiles for checking the actual ambient temperature (a) versus the temperature modeled by the method of estimating the ambient temperature based on the ODU (b). 
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    CLAIMS 1. A method for detecting ambient temperature in a geographical area. The method comprises the steps of: a) Obtaining quality control parameters of one or several previously existing devices not designed for the measurement of ambient temperature in a determined region; b) Monitoring of the control parameters and / or performance quality of the aforementioned devices; and e) Processing the control parameters and the geographical parameters of the region where the devices are located. 2. the method according to claim 1, wherein said device is said to be characterized by dimensions and known container 3. the method according to claim 2, wherein said device is characterized by being outside, also includes equipment of outdoor device unit (ODU) which can be connected to the communication antennas attached directly to them or close to them by means of a short waveguide cable or other forms of communication. The method according to claim 3, the device can be part of a system of equipment, such as microwave-based communication systems. 5. The method according to claim 2, is characterized by not having been designed for measuring the ambient temperature. 6. The method according to claim 1 where it says the monitoring of the control parameters includes the extraction of the temperature components of each device or ODU 7. The method according to claim 6 where it says the temperature components of each device or ODUs consist of: internal temperature, external temperature 8. The method according to claim 7 in reference to the external temperature, this is characterized by the ambient temperature and the temperature due to solar radiation incident on the equipment of each device or ODU 9. The method according to claim 1 where it says processing of the control parameters includes the application of at least one non-linear model that relates the device temperature or ODU of at least one device with the ambient or ambient temperature of the exterior or that surrounds on the outside 30 10. The method according to claim 9 where it says surrounds on the outside includes the area or perimeter where it is found. The device enters the device 11. The method according to claim 1 where it says processing of the control parameters includes a system for calculating the temperature of the theoretical device in that region and of the device 12. The method according to claim 11 decomposes the internal operating temperature of the equipment in ambient or ambient temperature outside the device and other temperatures 13. A device that includes the implementation of the method according to claims 1 to 12 14. The device according to claim 13 includes or may be formed by a computer or microprocessor-based system or a microcontroller or any state machine or a programmable gate network (FPGA) or a digital signal processor (DSP) or an application specific integrated circuit (ASle) or a combination of them.
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