Wireless photovoltaic (PV) monitoring system
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Date
2019-06
Authors
Muhammad Luqman Bin Ronzi
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Photovoltaic (PV) system which is converting sunlight into electrical energy has becoming world’s favourite type of energy generation. Through this phenomenon, monitoring is an important aspect for observing performance and quality of the system. The common method to collect data for monitoring is transmission across data cable. Due to the limitation of data cable, monitoring works need to be done near the PV plant. Over the years, these cables might be damaged because being left under scorching sun for a long time. It will add some maintenance cost for the system. The aim of this project is to develop easy usability and cost effective for PV monitoring system. A microcontroller Arduino Yun which has built in Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11b/g/n is used to develop an online PV monitoring system. Parameter such as voltage, current, power, temperature and solar irradiance will be display in Internet of Things platform - Ubidots. The design for hardware and software will be explained in detail in this paper. To evaluate this project, the monitoring system has been implemented on 50W stand-alone PV system. The results show that this system work successfully to collect the data and transmit to the internet. It can be monitored wirelessly in some significant distance. Finally, this wireless monitoring system will give advantages using simple method and modern technology.