Intelligent Wireless System for PV Supervision Based on The Raspberry Pi
Youssef Bikrat, Khalid Salmi, Kamal Azghiou, Ahmad Benlghazi, Abdelhamid Benali, Driss Moussaid · Advances in Science Technology and Engineering Systems Journal · 2019
Photovoltaic systems and monitoring go hand in hand.There is no better way to check the health of your photovoltaic system than to utilize a remote monitoring system.Monitoring and tracking of photovoltaic systems are crucial for reliable functioning and optimal yield of any solar electric system.This paper aims to introduce a remote electronic monitoring system.The said system will allow us to retrieve, process and transfer, in real-time, the photovoltaic station data remotely.The main objective of this work is to build a robust system that could be said as a reliable and low-price system, which will allow the transfer of the installation state to the remote operator in real-time or store it on an online database.Our intelligent wireless system is contained two parts, the first part including a hardware system designed around a microcontroller card (the Raspberry pi3 card) and a second part including the software part, which is the installation and configuration of open source applications on the Raspberry card.On the other hand, the configuration of an online database is presented.The database will offer us the possibility to store and process the station's data remotely and in real-time.Moreover, we also developed an application that plays the role of an interface for our monitoring Raspberry Pi3 machine.