Intelligent Monitoring and Control of Wind Turbine Prototype Using Internet of Things (IoT)

Abstract

The wind power industry has made the most recent age of wind turbines (WTs) on all platforms, from small windmills to ocean wind turbines. An emerging approach to reducing overall costs is to make wind turbines smarter. At the time of diagnosing fault concern personnel have to reach the particular location. As human beings are more prone to committing errors, electronic gadgets such as microcontrollers and sensors could be entrusted. To ensure the structural integrity of the tower and its components to assure the low cost of energy and safety of the surroundings, the Control Centre is responsible for Monitoring and Controlling WTs in those locations. Various parameters like oil level, speed of the generator, level of vibration, environmental conditions like rain, humidity, and temperature are to be monitored and controlled for the proper working of WTs. This paper describes monitoring and controlling of speed and vibration of a WT with the assistance of IoT. By the use of this described system, the speed of the turbine, temperature, voltage, and vibration can be monitored and controlled from anywhere, or just through a PC or smartphone. To show the described model in the hardware prototype, simply a DC motor is used as a WT and IoT is implemented through Arduino Uno microcontroller and Bolt IoT Wi-Fi Module. The proposed framework is based on the Bolt-Arduino (Boltuino) IoT platform that provides Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) and a cloud facility. One of the major objectives behind the integration of web and cloud networks is that the user controls all devices and data from far away over a web, local area network (LAN), or cloud. Also, by using the Bolt IoT module in this proposed system, code size can be decreased by around 80%.