Small scale photovoltaic monitoring system

Photovoltaic system installation is a costly venture. Due to this, valuable information from the system such as the efficiency, performance and energy produced are mostly required by the user. Thus, developing a small scale photovoltaic monitoring system give the user vital information on the return...

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Main Author: Md. Dom, Murtadza
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Published: 2010
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spelling my-utm-ep.269842017-08-15T01:12:05Z Small scale photovoltaic monitoring system 2010 Md. Dom, Murtadza TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering Photovoltaic system installation is a costly venture. Due to this, valuable information from the system such as the efficiency, performance and energy produced are mostly required by the user. Thus, developing a small scale photovoltaic monitoring system give the user vital information on the return of investment of the installation. In this project, a small scale photovoltaic monitoring system using PIC16F877a microcontroller and LabVIEW is designed and developed. PIC microcontroller is chosen for the cost effectiveness of it. Research is done on how to monitor the data using the analog to digital conversion of the microcontroller and also data storage and transmission using LabVIEW. The developed system is able to simulate and monitor the photovoltaic array voltage and photovoltaic array ampere drawn from the system. Additional data from the environment such as ambient temperature and solar irradiance data is also simulated and monitored. The monitoring software is developed using LabVIEW and the analyzed data is transmitted to the user’s e-mail. The monitoring system is then tested and the results are compared with that of photovoltaic monitoring systems available in the market. 2010 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/26984/ masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Faculty of Electrical Engineering
institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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topic TK Electrical engineering
Electronics Nuclear engineering
spellingShingle TK Electrical engineering
Electronics Nuclear engineering
Md. Dom, Murtadza
Small scale photovoltaic monitoring system
description Photovoltaic system installation is a costly venture. Due to this, valuable information from the system such as the efficiency, performance and energy produced are mostly required by the user. Thus, developing a small scale photovoltaic monitoring system give the user vital information on the return of investment of the installation. In this project, a small scale photovoltaic monitoring system using PIC16F877a microcontroller and LabVIEW is designed and developed. PIC microcontroller is chosen for the cost effectiveness of it. Research is done on how to monitor the data using the analog to digital conversion of the microcontroller and also data storage and transmission using LabVIEW. The developed system is able to simulate and monitor the photovoltaic array voltage and photovoltaic array ampere drawn from the system. Additional data from the environment such as ambient temperature and solar irradiance data is also simulated and monitored. The monitoring software is developed using LabVIEW and the analyzed data is transmitted to the user’s e-mail. The monitoring system is then tested and the results are compared with that of photovoltaic monitoring systems available in the market.
format Thesis
qualification_level Master's degree
author Md. Dom, Murtadza
author_facet Md. Dom, Murtadza
author_sort Md. Dom, Murtadza
title Small scale photovoltaic monitoring system
title_short Small scale photovoltaic monitoring system
title_full Small scale photovoltaic monitoring system
title_fullStr Small scale photovoltaic monitoring system
title_full_unstemmed Small scale photovoltaic monitoring system
title_sort small scale photovoltaic monitoring system
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
granting_department Faculty of Electrical Engineering
publishDate 2010
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