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Data Logger Solar

The document describes a project to design and construct an Arduino-based solar power parameter measuring system with data logging capabilities. Key aspects of the project include: - Measuring parameters like voltage, current, light intensity, temperature, and pressure from a solar panel. - Interfacing sensors to an Arduino board to collect the measurements and log the data. - Developing hardware and software to link the sensors and solar panel to the Arduino for data acquisition and storage on a computer. - Validating the accuracy of the system by comparing measurements to standard instruments. The goal is to create a low-cost solution to monitor and analyze solar power generation performance.

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Data Logger Solar

The document describes a project to design and construct an Arduino-based solar power parameter measuring system with data logging capabilities. Key aspects of the project include: - Measuring parameters like voltage, current, light intensity, temperature, and pressure from a solar panel. - Interfacing sensors to an Arduino board to collect the measurements and log the data. - Developing hardware and software to link the sensors and solar panel to the Arduino for data acquisition and storage on a computer. - Validating the accuracy of the system by comparing measurements to standard instruments. The goal is to create a low-cost solution to monitor and analyze solar power generation performance.

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Project Stage 1

Presentation
On

DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF AN ARDUINO - BASED SOLAR POWER PARAMETER


MEASURING SYSTEM WITH DATA LOGGER

Name of the Guide

Name of the Students


Contents
• Introduction

• Literature Survey

• Block Diagram

• List of H/W & S/W required

• Block Diagram Description


• Flow Chart

• Circuit Diagram

• Advantages

• Conclusion

• References
Introduction
1) Accurate monitoring and measurement of solar photovoltaic panel parameters
are important for solar power plant analysis to evaluate the performance and
predict the future energy generation. There are always challenges of getting such
data readily available due to huge amount of money to be spent on state of the
art equipment or the purchase of reliable satellite weather data.
2) This study aimed at the development of a cost-effective parameter-measuring
system for a solar photovoltaic panel using Arduino microprocessor board.
3) The systems measure five parameters, including voltage, current, light intensity,
temperature, and pressure.
4) The hardware circuit was designed to link different sensors with the Arduino
board and the measured data were in turn were documented into a computer for
further analysis.
5) The accuracy of the constructed device was ascertained by comparing the
measured parameters with that of conventional standard measuring instruments
which shows good agreement.
6) The measured parameters show that the output energy generation from solar
photovoltaic panel largely depends on the solar irradiance and temperature
Project progress presentation 3
Literature survey
• A.K. Saxena and V. Dutta, “A versatile microprocessor based
controller for solar tracking,” in Proc. IEEE, 1990, pp. 1105 – 1109.

• T.A. Papalias and M. Wong, “Making sense of light sensors,”


http://www.embedded.com, 2006.

• S. J. Hamilton, “Sun-tracking solar cell array system,” University of


Queensland Department of Computer Science and Electrical
Engineering, Bachelors Thesis, 1999.

• M. F. Khan and R. L. Ali, “Automatic sun tracking system,”


presented at the All Pakistan Engineering Conference, Islamabad,
Pakistan, 2005.

Project progress presentation 4


Block Diagram

Voltage Sensor

LCD
Current Sensor
Arduino UNO
LDR Sensor Wifi-
Module
Solar Panel
Temperature Sensor

Rechargeable
Battery
Hardware & Software Requirement

Hardware Software
1. Arduino UNO 1. Arduino IDE
2. Current Sensor 2. ThingsSpeak
3. Temperature sensor 3. Proteus
4. Voltage Sensor
5. LDR Sensor
6. LCD
Block Diagram Description
• In this work, an Arduino-based solar parameter-measuring system was designed and
constructed using Arduino Uno and multiple sensors. The system was found to be capable of
measuring different solar PV parameters including the voltage, current, real time temperature,
real time atmospheric pressure, and light intensity.
• The measured parameters were simultaneously logged into a personal computer (PC) for future
analysis or references.
• The block diagram of an Arduino based solar PV parameter-measuring system having sensors
interfaced between the solar panel and Arduino board.
• The system comprised of both hardware circuit design and software programming for
interfacing solar with the Arduino board.
• The hardware development involves the design of electronic components for the sensors
interface between the solar panel to the Arduino UNO. The hardware unit comprised of the
voltage sensor, current sensor, light dependent resistor (LDR) sensor, pressure-temperature
sensor and the Arduino Uno.
• The acquired data from sensors are analogue, thus the conversion to digital equivalent was
performed within the Arduino UNO analogue-to-digital converter module programmed in C-
language.
Why Arduino?
Easy to use Hardware Platform

Ease of programming

Ease of Interfacing of Real life peripherals

Open source and extensible hardware

Open source and extensible software

Low Cost

Multiplatform environment

Forum to provide support


AVR ATmega328P
AVR ATmega328P Features:
●Best board to get started with Arduino Platform
● Most used board in the family of Arduino boards.
● 8-bit Microcontroller
● Can be programmed with the Arduino IDE
● Works on a 16 MHz Clock
● 14 digital input/output pins
● 6 PWM outputs
● 6 analog inputs
● USB to serial converter
Solar Panel
• A solar photovoltaic panel converts sunlight (photons)
into electrical energy through the influence of the
photovoltaic effect.
• The photovoltaic modules constitute the photovoltaic
array of a photovoltaic system that generates and supplies
electric energy from solar energy in commercial quantities
for community uses. The common types of photovoltaic
modules are mono-crystalline, poly-crystalline, and thin
film photovoltaic modules. In this study, a 12V, 20W solar
panel composed of mono-crystal solar cell with an
efficiency of 17% was selected
VOLTAGE SENSOR
To sense the voltage level of the solar panelsystem is done by
voltage sensors. Manually design by voltage sensing circuit,
230/12V or 5 volt transformer can be used to step down the
voltage. The resistor can used to divide the voltage. Finally connect
to the Arduino analog inputs. This circuit is manually design by
printed circuit board.

CURRENT SENSOR
This circuit has been designed by printed circuit board. To sense
the current level and then we can choose the value of resistor to
obtain the 5v output of the circuit. The output can connect as
Arduino system to sense the current level of the solar panel.
LM 35
Features
• 0.5 C accuracy guaranteeable (at +25 C)
• Rated for full -55 to +150 C range
• Suitable for remote applications
• Low cost due to wafer-level trimming
• Operates from 4 to 30 volts
LDR Sensor
LDR sensor module is used to detect the
intensity of light. It is associated with both
analog output pin and digital output pin
labelled as AO and DO respectively on the
board. When there is light, the resistance
of LDR will become low according to the
intensity of light.
Flow chart
Circuit Diagram
Advantages
 Centralize control.
 Multiple operations can be performed.
 Safety.
 Commercially marketable Technical systems.
 Low cost.

Project progress presentation 17


Conclusion
• An Arduino based solar power parameter-measuring
system has been designed and constructed using the
optimized simulated parameter from Proteus ISIS. This
device was then used to acquire solar PV current,
voltage, power, temperature, pressure and light intensity.
The system can measure data from solar panel that can
be used to evaluate the performance of solar energy
generated for future energy generation prediction. Based
on the measurement data, it was observed that the solar
PV energy generation directly depends on the solar
irradiance, temperature
References
Adib, R., Murdock, H., Appavou, F., Brown, A., Epp, B., Leidreiter, A., Lins, C.,
Murdock, H., Musolino, E. and Petrichenko, K. 2015.

Renewables 2015 global status report. REN21 Secretariat, Paris, France: 162.
Ashish A, 2018. Using an LDR Sensor With Arduino.

Osueke, C., Uzendu, P. and Ogbonna, I. 2013. Study and evaluation of solar
energy variation in Nigeria. International Journal of Emerging Technology and
Advanced Engineering
Thank you

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