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IoT-based Solar Energy Monitoring

Preethi Sekar1, Priya Sabde2, Ganesh Patil3

1,2B-Tech Student & NIELIT

3Senior Project Engineer, NIELIT, Aurangabad (Maharashtra), INDIA.
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Abstract - whilst the non-renewable power resources are utilize the Bluetooth interface of Android pills or mobile
dwindling, the usage of renewable resources for generating telephones as a verbal exchange link. And additionally for
energy is developing. Nowadays sun power era is an replacing facts with the assistance of virtual hardware of
outstanding option for utilizing natural belongings and we the electricity Conditioning Unit.
can also say that solar panel gathers sun power, and then
converts that power into electric strength and stores it in a Ersan KABALCI: Introduces tracking of a renewable power
battery this power we will use on every occasion we wished. era machine this is constituted with solar panel arrays.
Proper here we're the usage of tracking, which offers easy And in which he explained the implementation of the
facts about numerous solar parameters, fault detection, and tracking gadget, the tracking device platform is primarily
related energy loss. based on modern and voltage measurements of each
renewable supply, and the related values are measured
And we will tune all the crucial parameters of solar PV with a sensing circuit, and the coded visible interface of
structures in real-time from our smartphones. The precept monitoring software can manage the saved facts to
aim is to lay out sun power monitoring and share the research the values of each size.
information thru IoT. IoT is an era that permits clever
gadgets to speak through the net. EXISTING SYSTEM

Key Words: IoT – Internet of things, PV – photovoltaic,iOS In existing devices each home tool isn't always interfaced
- iPhone Operating System, PCB - Printed Circuit Board. with a records acquisition module this is an IoT object
with a unique IP deal ensuing in a massive mesh wireless
1. INTRODUCTION community of gadgets so it creates less privacy and
security additionally in existing techniques the statistics
According to the International Energy Agency, Renewable acquisition machine on Chip (SoC) module isn't capable of
energy will be the fastest-growing source of electricity in collects power intake information from each tool of each
which the natural resource we get is solar power, it is the smart domestic and transmits the information to a
most available natural resource to generate electricity. In centralized server for further processing and analysis
this project, we have made a simple solar monitoring that’s why this data from all residential areas isn’t
system by using an ESP32 development board, where the accumulated in the software’s server as big facts so it
solar panels are used for producing electricity, with the becomes gives a less finest answer.
help of sunlight. The system is manually operated by
human so, there is a need for an efficient approach that IoT-based smart power meter solves the problems of
automatically control and monitor the current, voltage, prepaid electricity metering by using minimizing the
and other parameters of the solar system and provides complexities and mitigates the non-technical losses with
real-time statistics to users. the aid of ensuring the credibility of facts. It also brings
new essential features, which include real-time viewing of
The aim is to design solar energy monitoring and share consumption statistics and far-flung control of home
information through IoT. It consists of a charge controller equipment. A single section static watt-hour meter is used
with an ESP32 module, a voltage sensor, and a current to calculate the consumed energy and that information is
sensor. When the ESP32 module is a controller integrated extracted from the meter through a LED.
with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth support, where the sensor
checks the conditions that are programmed and detects
the output voltage and current.

1.1 Literature Survey

Jiju, k., et al: development of Android-based online
tracking and manipulation of the device, for allotted
Renewable power assets. On this, he defined how we can

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2. WORKING

PROCESS FLOW CHART

Fig-1: Block Diagram

MEASURING TEMPERATURE

We have used an external DS18B20 probe for measuring

the ambient temperature. It uses a one-wire protocol to
communicate with the microcontroller. One-wire devices
need a pull-up resistor connected to their signal line to be
properly read by our board. Here, we have used a 4.7k
resistor as a pull-up resistor.

MEASURING VOLTAGE

ESP32's analog inputs can be used to measure DC voltage

Fig-2: Flow Chart
between 0 and 3.3V. The solar panel that we have
The primary goal of this task is to layout solar monitoring considered can generate up to 12V. To read this voltage
devices and share the information through the IoT. In we have to step down the voltage which can be done by
which the main object of work is the energy of the device using a voltage divider network.
can be monitored using the voltage, and the contemporary
sensed using the ESP32, and the monitor of the solar For a voltage divider circuit
power machine suggests power and energy usage. Vout = R2/ (R1+R2) * Vin
The device is for designing the monitoring of solar energy,
Vin = (R1+R2)/R2 *Vout
in which the solar strength enables the storage of the
power in a battery. The Battery is the power which we can The analog read () function reads the voltage and converts
use as electrical home equipment. it to a number 0 to 4095. We are going to read the output
value with one of the analog inputs of Arduino and its
On this mission, we're the use of the voltage sensor, analog Read () function. That function outputs a value
represent-day or, ESP32, Battery, OLED show, charge
between 0 to 4095 which is 3.3/4095 for each increment.
Controller, buck Converter, and solar panel having 10W
12V. The sun panel voltage and cutting-edge are sensed by MEASURING CURRENT
measuring voltage and cutting-edge sensor respectively.
Similarly, the ambient temperature is sensed by means For the current sensor, we have used ACS712. The ACS712
ofutilizing0 the Temperature sensor. The uncooked sensor current sensor reads the current value and converts it into
facts from all of the sensors are processed with the aid of a relevant voltage value, the value that links the two
an ESP32 board and we have to calculate the electricity, measurements is sensitivity. The output sensitivity can be
electricity, temperature, voltage, and present day. The obtained from the datasheet. As for the datasheet, the
processed statistics then it's far sent to an OLED display sensitivity is 200mV/A.
for nearby monitoring and additionally to the cloud far-off.
The faraway monitoring is executed through the Blynk Current in amp = (ADCVoltage - Offset Voltage) /
app set up on a telephone which may be utilized by each sensitivity.
android and iOS.
INTERFACING OLED DISPLAY

To display the solar panel parameter locally, we have used

an OLED to display. It uses a 12C bus to communicate with
the ESP32. Two pins SCL (GPIO22), and SDA (GPIO21) in
ESP32 are used for communication.

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3.3V --------->VCC

GND ---------->GND

GPIO21 -------->SDA

GPIO22 -------->SCL

( Here we are connected the VCC to 3.3V of DC voltage

ESP32 of GND is connected to OLED of GND and the
GPIO21 is connected to SDA and the GPIO22 is connected
to SCL)

Fig-4: Hardware Setup.

RESULT
The most performance of this assignment may be
progressed via incorporating solar Trackers based totally
on most energy point monitoring mechanisms (MPPT).
The machine checks the location of the sun and controls
Fig-3: Hardware Output Display the movement of a solar panel so that radiation of the sun
comes commonly to the surface of the solar panel and
In this project we are also using ESP32, where the GPIO34 MPPT sun fee controllers are created and inscribed with
is connected to the Analog pin of the voltage sensor, the maximum strength factor monitoring algorithm to
GPIO35 pin is connected with the output of the Current considerably boom the amount of present-day supplied to
Sensor, GPIO22 and GPIO21 pins are connected with the the batteries from the photovoltaic modules.
SCL and SDA of OLED display and the GPIO4 is connected
with resister and data wire of temperature probe. Here we Any other effective way to screen the setup sun device in
are using the charge controller, a solar charge controller an actual-time situation is by way of including the
used to keep the battery from overcharging by regulating statistics logging feature in this project. Because the
the voltage and current coming from the solar panel to the middle of all strength tracking structures massive or small,
battery. And the charge Controller is connected to the the records logger is important to acquiring the vital
positive and negative terminal of the PV solar panel, the records by the use of a collection of communications
positive and negative terminal of a battery which is used protocols that the related sensors might also rent. The
in a project with the efficiency of 12V, another connection information logger is a storage device keeping many files
is with load and the buck converter is used to reduce the with the uncooked facts generated by the IoT primarily
voltage. Which is connected with a charge controller, based solar electricity tracking device. The statistics (date,
battery, and load .and the solar panel is connected with a time, voltage, etc.) are recorded on an SD card and can be
charge controller with 10W and 12V. analyzed with a spreadsheet or energy BI software
records equipment.
SOFTWARE USED
Cloud computing offers services in diverse structures
-Arduino IDE along with sources, software, and statistics to the
computer systems over the internet. Cloud computing
-Blynk App
offers sources and infrastructure as a supply with minimal
fee rather than spending a whole lot cost of resources. The
idea of Cloud computing is carried out on this undertaking
through the usage of cloud software which includes Google
cloud or Amazon AWS services.

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3. CONCLUSIONS
In the end, the solar monitoring gadget using IoT has been
established efficaciously on this mission with the
monitoring gadget for the power produced through the
sun strength assets. With the implementation of IoT, it has
eased the monitoring technique from every other location
by using the Blynk utility, suitable for both Android and
IOS users. This solar PV monitoring device sooner or later
will assist the customers to evaluate and predict the
overall performance of the solar panel. The users can
determine what predictive maintenance needs to be
finished to ensure the solar PV gadget function smoothly
and can supply non-stop power to the load. There are
numerous tips of works that can be proposed for a higher
result in the future: so that you can enhance the specific
percentage of present-day analysis, it's miles
recommended to degree the cutting-edge use of the clamp
meter at some stage in the actual implementation of the
solar PV machine in the fertigation machine. The
monitoring gadget ought to be examined in the actual
setting of the farming so that that analyzing of the
parameters wanted can be acquired effectively. It is better
to construct or put into effect more accurate sensors so
the fee may be displayed successfully. The accuracy may
be set by way of calibrating the offset value of the sensors.

For a better circuit method, it's far encouraged to design

the circuit PCB to ease the relationship between the
sensors with the microcontroller. Furthermore, with the
PCB circuit, any blunders regarding the twine
disconnection can be prevented.

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