An Internet of Things system for measuring parameter of Photovoltaic Panel

  • Sherwin Sompie Sam Ratulangie University
  • Meita Rumbayan Sam Ratulangie University
Keywords: IoT, Photovoltaic, Arduino

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) system is developing at an impressive rate nowadays. It is
capable of performing machine-to-machine communication, cloud connection, data
management and collection simultaneously. In this paper, the authors have designed an IoT
system in a Photovoltaic (PV) panel with real time current and voltage measurement, cloud
connection capability and measurement storage function into an IoT server. The graphical data
stored allows evaluation of the PV Panel’s overall performance. Our IoT systems were powered
with Arduino-based microcontroller paired with current and voltage sensor, as well as WIFI
wireless communications system and Bluetooth module. We paired our system with an android
smartphone to display the data and stored it into the Blynk server. Blynk is a cloud-based IoT
capable of controlling and storing data for Arduino-based microcontrollers over Wi-Fi or
Ethernet connection. In our experiment for 50WP PV panel, we were able to store the parameter
for over one week measurement ,that give us enough data to get the PV performance.

Published
2019-02-13