IoT based photovoltaic monitoring system application

Abstract

Solar photovoltaic (PV) system has become the greatest attraction in the clean, renewable electricity generation. However, the performance is varying due to various parameters and environmental conditions. Hence, a remote and real-time monitoring system is needed to assess its performance. Implementation of the Internet of Things (IoT) in the monitoring of the solar PV system was proposed and its performance was studied. The system consists of data acquisition, data gateway, and smartphone application display. The data acquisition was successfully collect the data with 98.49% accuracy and was uploaded to the data gateway. The data gateway was able to send the graphical representation of the data to the smartphone application with a mean transmission time of 52.34 seconds. The results demonstrate that the proposed monitoring system can be a promising solution for intelligent remote and real-time monitoring of a solar PV system.