A Low Cost Concept for Data Acquisition Systems Applied to Decentralized Renewable Energy Plants

Jucá, Sandro César Silveira; Carvalho, Paulo César Marques de; Brito, Fábio Timbó

doi:10.3390/s110100743

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“…PV monitoring systems allow for timely replacement of faulty components as well as the replacement of underperforming parts. Thus far, low cost data acquisition systems have been developed in the research setting [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]. As many PV systems are located in areas that are difficult to access, some devices have incorporated concepts of low-maintenance and automated data collection into their designs.…”

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Low-cost data acquisition systems for photovoltaic system monitoring and usage statistics

Fanourakis

K²,

McCarthy

et al. 2017

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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Abstract. This paper presents the design of a low-cost data acquisition system for monitoring a photovoltaic system's electrical quantities, battery temperatures, and state of charge of the battery. The electrical quantities are the voltages and currents of the solar panels, the battery, and the system loads. The system uses an Atmega328p microcontroller to acquire data from the photovoltaic system's charge controller. It also records individual load information using current sensing resistors along with a voltage amplification circuit and an analog to digital converter. The system is used in conjunction with a wall power data acquisition system for the recording of regional power outages. Both data acquisition systems record data in micro SD cards. The data has been successfully acquired from both systems and has been used to monitor the status of the PV system and the local power grid. As more data is gathered it can be used for the maintenance and improvement of the photovoltaic system through analysis of the photovoltaic system's parameters and usage statistics.

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Low-cost data acquisition systems for photovoltaic system monitoring and usage statistics

Fanourakis

K²,

McCarthy

et al. 2017

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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“…In the majority of the presented solutions the developed DAQ devices are not general purpose DAQs, but rather have been specially designed for specific DAQ applications, such as temperature or humidity measurements. In [1] the authors present a microcontroller-based DAQ that is applied to decentralised renewable energy plants whilst in [2], for thermoelectric property measurements. In the latter case the DAQ is based on a PIC18F4550 microcontroller.…”

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A Flexible Microcontroller-Based Data Acquisition Device

Hercog

Gergič

2014

Sensors

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This paper presents a low-cost microcontroller-based data acquisition device. The key component of the presented solution is a configurable microcontroller-based device with an integrated USB transceiver and a 12-bit analogue-to-digital converter (ADC). The presented embedded DAQ device contains a preloaded program (firmware) that enables easy acquisition and generation of analogue and digital signals and data transfer between the device and the application running on a PC via USB bus. This device has been developed as a USB human interface device (HID). This USB class is natively supported by most of the operating systems and therefore any installation of additional USB drivers is unnecessary. The input/output peripheral of the presented device is not static but rather flexible, and could be easily configured to customised needs without changing the firmware. When using the developed configuration utility, a majority of chip pins can be configured as analogue input, digital input/output, PWM output or one of the SPI lines. In addition, LabVIEW drivers have been developed for this device. When using the developed drivers, data acquisition and signal processing algorithms as well as graphical user interface (GUI), can easily be developed using a well-known, industry proven, block oriented LabVIEW programming environment.

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“…Sandro C.S. juca et al [9] presented commercial datalogger is more expensive, usually imported and have proprietary software. It also does not allow amendment to hardware nor software.…”

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GSM wireless datalogger of small hydro power generation system

Hunar

Azrulhisham

Hamzani³

et al. 2014

2014 4th International Conference on Engineering Technology and Technopreneuship (ICE2T)

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This paper presents the propose application of GSM wireless datalogger at Small Hydro Power Generation Station. Normally, renewable energy power generation system requires the application of data acquisition. Data acquisition of power, voltage, current, sedimentation, water flowrate and quantity of water are common data needed to evaluate performance. Thus, influence the planning electrical energy supply to the grid TNB station and provide clarification to ecological events. Intake of Small Hydro Station is located inaccessible area that is 2.07km heights and 3.44km distance by route from powerhouse. There is no active GSM line provider at the area. Therefore, advance communication technologies such as radio frequency device offers new possibilities of efficient data transfering. They are more reliable and cheaper than conventional method. Datalogger DT80M has the ability to send data using GSM line provider from remote area. Route distance is approximately 100km between powerhouse Small Hydro station to Host or Master Station. Power and water flowrate, will be monitor using Labview and save into database server. Random raw data derive into mean, standard deviation, skewness and kurtosis will be use to simulate performance model of density function.

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A Low Cost Concept for Data Acquisition Systems Applied to Decentralized Renewable Energy Plants

Cited by 34 publications

References 24 publications

Low-cost data acquisition systems for photovoltaic system monitoring and usage statistics

Low-cost data acquisition systems for photovoltaic system monitoring and usage statistics

A Flexible Microcontroller-Based Data Acquisition Device

GSM wireless datalogger of small hydro power generation system

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