Renewable energy source (RES) enables us to diversify our energy supply. This increases our security of supply and improves European competitiveness creating new industries, jobs, economic growth and export opportunities, whilst also reducing our greenhouse gas emissions. The monitoring systems are widely used in RES applications in order to collect data regarding the installed system performance, for evaluation purposes. In this article, the development of a computer-based system for RES systems monitoring is described. This article proposes a tool dedicated to real-time information of electricity and thus implicitly the optimal timing for use of electricity. The proposed system consists for measuring electrical parameters (photovoltaics voltage and current etc.).
The main objective of the article is to stimulate interest of the consumers for the green energy considering the environmental and the financial impact (in this case by increasing productivity) of this one. For these arguments, this article proposes a real application, with autonomy in the power supply, for control the temperature in the hive using energy from alternative sources (through a solar panel). The temperature regulation is controlled by a microcontroller. For setting the temperature of the hive some bees are used at the expense of honey production. If there would be no need to adjust the temperature of the hive bees when the hive would increase productivity (worker bees population and honey production).
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