IoT Enabled Smart Solar Panel Monitoring System Based on Boltuino Platform

Abstract

Renewable energy sources have been proven to be reliable, and they are also thought to be the best way to meet our growing energy needs. The rising interest in solar power, increasing costs and functional expenses are led to a few convincing explanations behind the requirement for energy monitoring. Today, Solar Photovoltaic (PV) power is the newest and brightest advancement in the renewable energy market that reduces the requirement of fossil fuel by-products. To get the most out of solar power generation, it's important to pay a lot of attention to how it's kept and how it's used. The purpose of this project work is to display real-time PV parameters on mobile or computer remotely, manage the data and load which is connected with the PV panel and examine the statistics via graph. In this work 20-watt solar panel is used as a PV module, Boltuino (Bolt IoT+ Arduino) device is used as a controller circuit and Current sensor, Voltage sensor, Temperature & Humidity sensor are used for solar parameter collection. The Arduino Uno collects the current sensor, voltage sensor, temperature & humidity sensor data and sends it to the BOLT via serial communication. Following receipt of the statistics in BOLT, it displays all of the solar parameters and generates a graph, which stores all of the information. The alert message will be sent to the registered mobile phone through SMS, and be able to monitor the data from the PV module and remotely operate the system in the event of any unwanted situation like a short circuit or voltage cut out.