Abstract
Currently, the increasing energy consumption around the world and the environmental impact resulting from the use of fossil fuel-based energy have promoted the use of renewable energy sources such as photovoltaic solar energy. The main characteristic of this type of energy is its unpredictability, as it depends on meteorological conditions. In this sense, monitoring the power generation of photovoltaic systems (PVS) in order to analyze their performance is becoming crucial. The purpose of this paper is to design a monitoring system for a residential photovoltaic self-consumption system which employs an Internet of Things (IoT) platform to estimate the photovoltaic power generation according to solar radiation and temperature. The architecture of the developed prototype will be described and the benefits of providing the use of IoT for monitoring will be highlighted, since all data collected by the data acquisition system (DAS) may be stored in the Cloud. The comparison of the results with those of other monitoring systems was very positive, with an uncertainty that complies with the IEC61724 standard.
Highlights
The growth in the number of industries and the increase in societal comfort needs have increased energy demand since the end of the 20th century
This section Results shows the of the monitoring prototype and the Internet of Things (IoT) channel for the aforementioned photovoltaic self-consumption system
In the monitoring system is thingspeak, due to its compatibility with the data acquisition system used and study carried out by Abdul-Rahman and Graves, this platform is used for the monitoring of different for its possibilities for the analysis and visualization of the data through Matlab
Summary
The growth in the number of industries and the increase in societal comfort needs have increased energy demand since the end of the 20th century. The need to reduce the use of these fuels for power generation is encouraging the use of renewable energies [3,4]. The decrease in cost of this technology and the large amount of solar radiation available contribute to obtaining competitive production costs compared to the energy produced by fossil fuels or other renewable sources according to various studies [5,6]. In these studies, the unit electricity generation cost is analyzed, depending on the source used and the size of the installation
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