The proposed project aims to develop a data acquisition system using the Internet of things concept. The system monitors the environment in which a solar photovoltaic module is located and sends the generated voltage, ambient temperature and light incidence data to a cloud server through the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) communication protocol. The MQTT message is listened by a program running on the cloud server and the data received is stored on the same cloud server and can be visualized by any allowed remote user.