SMART SOLAR AUTOMATION MONITORED AND CONTROLLED USING IOT

ELECTRONICS AND INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERING

Data logger and monitoring systems are very crucial for the efficient, robust and smooth operation of PV solar energy system. Data logger and monitoring system enables the proper operation and contributes to identifying system malfunctioning before any major breakdown. In this thesis, a low-cost, user-friendly, reliable data logger and monitoring system has been developed mainly for a pico solar home system in a rural area of a developing country. This ESP 8266 microcontroller based data logger stores all monitoring parameter in a micro SD card and displays that on a Blynk App. Data can be downloaded directly from the webpage to analyze and verify the system operation. The developed data logger hardware prototype uses only four sensors for humidity, temperature, voltage, and current sensing. An already developed Android app is use for cell phone to display all parameters in real time basis for an efficient monitoring which can also able to give important information to maintenance personnel for any issues in battery charging. To accomplish the task, we have developed the hardware implementation of remote data acquisition architecture of photovoltaic systems based on the Internet of Things. The overall cost of this prototype is economical.

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