Development A Portable Solar Energy Measurement System

• Published in: Journal of physics. Conference series 2021-07, Vol.1962 (1), p.12049
• Main Authors: Atika, Z., Leow, W.Z., Iszaidy, I., Irwan, Y.M., Safwati, I., Irwanto, M., Wafi, N.M., Saw, S. X.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Ambient temperature; Circuit design; Data recovery; Energy measurement; Internet of Things; IoT; Irradiance; Monitoring; Parameters; Portable equipment; Solar energy; Solar Energy Measurement System; Solar Panel; ThingSpeak
• ISSN: 1742-6588; 1742-6596
• DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/1962/1/012049

This project presents the design and development a portable measurement device for measure and monitor solar panel parameters by using Internet of Things (IoT) concept. Solar energy measurement plays a very important role in the measurement of parameter reading for the determination of output generated, but the challenge is only performed manually at the work site using a clamp meter or a multimeter. Furthermore, it was very difficult to get the value at that time, and the data recovery error occurred. There are three specific objectives have been used for the project. Firstly, the relevant circuits for this project are design and built the circuit by using software. The output of the measurement solar irradiance, ambient temperature, solar panel temperature, current and voltage value were displayed on LCD. Next, IoT concept is used for solar panel measurement and monitoring. The value of the measurement and monitoring is used ThingSpeak cloud and ThingView application on the smartphone. It can be collected the portable solar for the energy measurement system can monitor on site, anywhere and anytime using IoT platform.