Raspberry Pi Pico Based Solar Panel Parameter Monitoring System Using IOT
Abstract.
Presently we are invading in a new period of modernisms i.e., Internet of Things (IOT). By using the IOT supervising solar energy can greatly enhance the performance, monitoring of the plant. It is a technique to keep track of the dust assembled on the solar panels to induce the maximum power for active utilization. The amount of output power of the solar panels depends on the radiation hit to the solar cell. All the panels are attached and the sensors are precisely connected to the central controller which supervises the panels and loads. Thus, user can view the LDR, voltage and sunlight. The Internet of Things (IOT) is one of the most important technologies of everyday life, which helps people live and smarter. An IOT is a device, which is used to enable the connection between machine and the cloud. This technology helps to exchange the data between the connected devices on the available network. Through the internet, the user can acquire the data and control the devices from any place all over the world. It is an ecosystem which consists of web enabled gadgets that use processors, sensors and other communication hardware devices to fetch and send the data. By using IOT we can set up machine to machine connection or device to device connection without human interference. It also utilizes computing facilities and software systems for information processing. The need for using IOT technology in this solar power monitoring system is as the range of sun’s radiation is not fixed and may vary according to the location, time and climatic conditions, the solar panels which are exposed to the sun always need to be monitored. The solar panels can be monitored from any location by using IOT technology.
