ESP8266 IoT Based Monitoring Solar Panel Parameter

Renewable energy sources are proven to be reliable and accepted as the best alternative for fulfilling our increasing energy needs. Solar photovoltaic energy is the emerging and enticing clean technologies with zero carbon emission in today’s world. To harness the solar power generation, it is indeed necessary to pay serious attention to its maintenance as well as application.

Solar power plants need to be monitored for optimum power output. This helps retrieve efficient power output from power plants while monitoring for faulty solar panels, connections, dust accumulated on panels lowering output and other such issues affecting solar performance. So here we propose an automated IOT based solar power monitoring system that allows for automated solar power monitoring from anywhere over the internet. The Monitoring the performance parameter of solar panel using IoT is proposed to collect and analyzes the solar energy parameters to predict the performance for ensuring stable power generation. The main advantage of the system is to determine optimal performance for better maintenance of solar PV (photovoltaic). The prime target of PV monitoring system is to offer a cost-effective solution, which incessantly displays remote energy yields and its performance either on the computer or through smart phones. The proposed system can measure voltage, current, wattages of solar module, also temperature, and light intensity can be monitor.

This monitoring system is developed by a smart Wi-Fi enabled ESP8266 microcontroller with latest embedded Tensilica 32-bit RISC CPU Xtensa LX106 processor that communicates and uploads the data in cloud platform with the Blynk application. Also the Wireless monitoring system maximizes the operational reliability of a system with minimum system cost.