Designing Energy and Power Monitoring System on Solar Power Plant Using Raspberry Pi

Abstract

The application of Information Technology (IT) has been growing rapidly recently. IT utilized to monitor flowing power and stored electrical energy which is produced by solar cell. This project explains how to build and design interface system. Electrical energy need to be monitored in order to keep energy stored. Single Board Computer (SBC), microcontroller, sensors, and transceivers are used in logging electrical power for this project. These nodes are connected wirelessly. Raspberry Pi 2 B, Arduino Nano, NRF24L01, Voltage sensor and ACS712 sensor are required to run this project. IDLE, Apache, BIND, hostapd, udhcpd, and highcharts are programs used in Raspberry Pi 2 B. The values of power are displayed into graphical chart and log energy table are able to be accessed by using computer or smartphone. By connecting to local network via Wi-Fi and go to http://solmon.home to see measurement results.