Designing an Android-Based Solar Home System Performance Monitoring System in Pasarbatang Village, Brebes Regency
Afrizal Abdi Musyafiq, Wahyu Edifikar, Taufiq Kamal · International Conference on Technology for Education · 2020
The use of renewable energy sources in the last 10 years has developed very rapidly. There are many kinds of renewable energy sources, including water, geothermal, wind, solar, biogas, biomass, and ocean waves. But what Indonesians can easily access is solar or solar power. The device used for harnessing sunlight into electrical energy is the photovoltaic (PV) solar panel. The location which is difficult to reach the electricity grid from the state electricity company (PLN) is very appropriate to be integrated with the Solar Home System (SHS) as a solution. But there are other problems that arise in the application of this SHS, namely the absence of performance monitoring on the PV used. The purpose of this research is to review the availability of solar energy sources to be used as power plants with SHS. Then with this research also known electricity generation for SHS. Remote monitoring system design for SHS can be implemented in Pasarbatang Brebes Village. The design in this study uses a sensor at the PV output to be connected to an Arduino microcontroller. The data recording from the sensor by the microcontroller is sent to the online storage media (cloud drive) via a wifi communication device. The results of the research can be accessed anywhere and anytime because the system was built using online storage media. This makes it easier to monitor the progress of the PV installed via the web or Android smartphone. Monitoring on android applications using NodeMCU ESP8266 to send and receive data. So that it can monitor the measurement results from the current and voltage sensors in real time.