The Third Edition of the International Conference on Electronic Engineering and Renewable Energy (ICEERE’2022), Sattat, Fas, 20 Mayıs 2022
The amount of solar
capacity deployed worldwide has doubled in
the past decades. The increasing use of solar energy makes photovoltaic
(PV) power plants substantial. In PV power plants, reducing maintenance and
operating costs positively affects efficiency. A failure in any module can
reduce or interrupt the production of electrical energy, causing significant
losses in both efficiency and revenue. Therefore, responding to a fault as
quickly as possible in PV power plants is critical. The ability of the PV plant
operator to react to potential faults is directly related to the rapid detection
of faulty modules. In this paper, IoT based data acquisition and monitoring
system is designed to diagnose module failures and remotely monitor for PV
power plant's performance. The current, voltage, module surface temperature,
and solar radiation values are measured for each PV module. These data are transmitted
wirelessly to long distances with LoRa modules. All data acquired in the
central recording unit device are transferred to the internet, enabling online
access and also stored on the memory card.