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The mission of the platform is to perform monitoring and identification of overirradiance (solar irradiance &gt; 1000 W\/m2) and extreme overirradiance events (solar irradiance &gt; 1300 W\/m2) using a photovoltaic based irradiance sensor. The sensory platform was built using the ESP8266 microcontroller, an open embedded computer capable of Wi-Fi communication using the IEEE 802.11 standard, and small photovoltaic modules, air temperature, atmospheric pressure, voltage, and current sensors, enabling the development of a low-cost system (\u20ac70\/R$350.00 BRL). Calibration and tests were conducted at the Federal University of Par\u00e1 (UFPA), Bel\u00e9m campus, Par\u00e1, where the platform measured an extreme overirradiance of 1321 W\/m2 at a low-latitude (1 \u00b0S) and low altitude (7 m above sea level).<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s18082685","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,8,15]],"date-time":"2018-08-15T10:40:07Z","timestamp":1534329607000},"page":"2685","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["A Low-Cost, Stand-Alone Sensory Platform for Monitoring Extreme Solar Overirradiance Events"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"18","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0246-8339","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Otavio Andre","family":"Chase","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Cyberspatial Institute (ICIBE), Amazonian Federal Rural University (UFRA), Av. 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