Development of an Arduino-based Data Acquisition Device for Monitoring Solar PV System Parameters

Sugiartha, Nyoman; Sugina, I Made; Putra, I Dewa Gede Agus Tri; Indraswara, Made Alwin; Suryani, Luh Ika Dhivtyasari

doi:10.2991/icst-18.2018.201

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“…The temperature and relative humidity had normal evolutions, according to the literature, with an increase of the temperature and a decrease of the relative humidity from the morning. These two environmental parameters often have inverse evolutions; when one increases, the other decreases (Fall et al, 2006;Sugiartha et al, 2018).…”

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“…The use of open-source tools such as Arduino is becoming more and more common in the literature to develop monitoring systems for different types of systems (Rahman et al, 2018). For example, González and Calderón (2019) and Sugiartha et al (2018) have developed prototypes of a monitoring and data acquisition system dedicated to autonomous systems and smart grids. Based on ATMega2560 of the Arduino Mega, the designed systems allowed to monitor the evolution of several parameters such as voltage, current, irradiance, temperature, etc.…”

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Design of a low-cost electronic board for monitoring photovoltaic systems

Pape¹,

Ndiaye²

2023

Int. J. Phys. Sci.

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The development of renewable energies is essential to meet the energy demand which is growing year after year. Africa has a strong solar potential which is, however, little exploited. The development of solar photovoltaic (PV) energy will be more favored with the democratization of performance monitoring and characterization tools for PV systems. Monitoring systems are very important because they allow the monitoring of the operation and control of PV installations in order to reduce maintenance costs and avoid undesirable power supply interruptions. There are several monitoring systems, more or less efficient, proposed on the market but they are often too expensive and not adapted to all existing systems. This paper presents a low-cost electronic board for monitoring and characterizing photovoltaic systems. The designed board is based on the ATMega328 microcontroller of the opensource development platform Arduino. It is composed of four blocks that allow the acquisition of electrical and environmental parameters. The board has been tested in monitoring mode with the follow-up of a small PV solar installation. The results of these experiments are consistent with what is found in the literature. Its use in characterization mode has allowed to obtain, in real time, the currentvoltage and power-voltage characteristics. Compared to the results of the IV-500W tracer, the characterization results are consistent with an RMSE of 0.81 in voltage and 0.15 in current on all points measured. The design work is completed with the PCB design on Altium designer which resulted in the Gerber file.

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Design of a low-cost electronic board for monitoring photovoltaic systems

Pape¹,

Ndiaye²

2023

Int. J. Phys. Sci.

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“…Memory cards are essential for storing large amounts of data for a long time [96]- [98]. Engine monitoring devices use a Micro SD memory card to save data on a memory card [99].…”

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Modern Monitoring Instrument to Support Fishing Vessel Operation and Maintenance: A Review

Abrori¹,

Sidhi²,

Prasetyo³

2021

International Journal on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology

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Determining the maintenance strategy for fishing vessels propulsion engines can use engine operational monitoring data. This data is used to prepare the implementation time, spare parts, labor, and costs. Unfortunately, many fishing vessels do not have this data. Currently, electronic devices are available for monitoring machine operations. This device is cheap, easy to use, takes responsibility for various physical quantity parameters, displays it on LCD, stores it digitally, and transmits data wirelessly. This paper aims to review the application of engine operational monitoring tools to apply to fishing vessel propulsion engines. The material used is scientific articles consisting of journals and proceedings indexed by online databases. Several keywords are used to obtain scientific articles that are suitable for the study. The method used is a literature review that is systematically reviewed by applying inclusion and exclusion. The results obtained in this article are the parameters for monitoring propulsion engines, namely temperature, pressure, rotational speed, and hours the engine runs. The monitoring device requires sensors to detect physical parameters, a microcontroller to process data, an LCD to display monitoring results, and memory to store data to obtain this data. The device supports wireless communication via Bluetooth or WiFi radio signal. Fishing vessels are operating in offshore areas that are not covered by internet networks as IoT communication transmissions. Further research on how to transmit operational engine data from offshore to onshore without an internet signal so that data can be accessed using the internet network.

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“…Albeit there can be benefits of PV systems in alpine areas, there are also potential downsides such as difficult construction process or shading by heavy snow fall and ice accumulation. Estimated losses by snow and ice accumulation are 1.4% to 3.5% of the annual energy production (Ross and Royer 1999). Countermeasures to this are higher tilt angles, mounting rectangular modules, manual removal of snow and ice, or passive melting technologies.…”

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Comparison of solar power measurements in alpine areas using a mobile dual-axis tracking system

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The rising demand for sustainable energy requires to identify the sites for photovoltaic systems with the best performance. This paper tackles the question of feasibility of photovoltaic power plants at high altitude. A direct comparison between an alpine and an urban area site is conducted in the south of Austria. Two low-cost automatic photovoltaic power measurement devices with dual-axis sun tracking and maximum power point tracking are deployed at two test sites. The system periodically performs a scan over the southern semihemisphere and executes maximum power point adjustment in order to assess the performance for a given direction. The gathered data shows a higher photovoltaic power yield in the higher altitude test site. Furthermore, the high altitude photovoltaic power as a function of azimuth and elevation angle appears to be not only higher but also more flat than in lower altitudes. This indicates a lower power loss in case of deviation from the optimal solar angles. The results show that even on low-cost hardware a difference in photovoltaic power can be observed, even though in this experiment it amounts to less than 5% increase of peak power in higher altitudes. However, the measured peak powers on the mountain are more stable and therefore closer to a constant level than the heavily fluctuating peak power values at the low altitude site. Additionally, a slight shift in optimal elevation angles between altitudes can be observed, as the optimum angle turns out to be lower on the high altitude site. This angle shift could be caused by snow reflections on the mountainous test site.

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Development of an Arduino-based Data Acquisition Device for Monitoring Solar PV System Parameters

Cited by 14 publications

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Design of a low-cost electronic board for monitoring photovoltaic systems

Design of a low-cost electronic board for monitoring photovoltaic systems

Modern Monitoring Instrument to Support Fishing Vessel Operation and Maintenance: A Review

Comparison of solar power measurements in alpine areas using a mobile dual-axis tracking system

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