TY - GEN
T1 - A Photovoltaic (PV) array monitoring simulator
AU - Peshin, Shwetang
AU - Ramirez, David
AU - Lee, Jongmin
AU - Braun, Henry
AU - Tepedelenlioglu, Cihan
AU - Spanias, Andreas
AU - Banavar, Mahesh
AU - Srinivansan, Devarajan
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported in part by the NSF GOALI award 1308052, the NSF REV GOALI supplement 1450616, Poundra Inc, ViaSOL Inc, and ACT Corporation.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Acta Press. All rights reserved.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Utility scale solar energy is generated by photovoltaic (PV) cell arrays, which are often deployed in remote areas. We consider a PV array monitoring system where smart sensors are attached to the PV modules and transmit data to a monitoring station through wireless links. These smart monitoring devices may be used for fault detection and management of connection topologies. In this paper, we describe a compact hardware simulator of the smart PV array monitoring system. The voltage, current, irradiance, and temperature of each PV module are monitored and the status of each panel along with all data is transmitted to a mobile device. LABVIEW and Arduino board programs have been developed to display and visualize the monitoring data from all sensors. All data is saved on servers and mobile devices and desktops can easily access analytics from anywhere. In the paper, we simulate and demonstrate various PV array conditions including shading, faults, and loading.
AB - Utility scale solar energy is generated by photovoltaic (PV) cell arrays, which are often deployed in remote areas. We consider a PV array monitoring system where smart sensors are attached to the PV modules and transmit data to a monitoring station through wireless links. These smart monitoring devices may be used for fault detection and management of connection topologies. In this paper, we describe a compact hardware simulator of the smart PV array monitoring system. The voltage, current, irradiance, and temperature of each PV module are monitored and the status of each panel along with all data is transmitted to a mobile device. LABVIEW and Arduino board programs have been developed to display and visualize the monitoring data from all sensors. All data is saved on servers and mobile devices and desktops can easily access analytics from anywhere. In the paper, we simulate and demonstrate various PV array conditions including shading, faults, and loading.
KW - Arduino
KW - LABVIEW
KW - PV array simulator
KW - Remote control of solar array topologies
KW - Sensors
KW - Solar energy monitoring
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U2 - 10.2316/P.2015.826-029
DO - 10.2316/P.2015.826-029
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85015743668
T3 - Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control
SP - 180
EP - 186
BT - Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference Modelling, Identification and Control, MIC 2015
PB - ACTA Press
T2 - 2015 IASTED International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control, MIC 2015
Y2 - 16 February 2015 through 17 February 2015
ER -