Controllogger: A remote monitoring system for decentralized renewable energy sources

Abstract

The development of a remote monitoring and control system for decentralized renewable energy plants is described in the present paper. The system has a microcontroller-based unit for local storing and data transmission to internet by a GSM modem and a database server to store the data. The proposed architecture is easily extended for controlling a decentralized renewable energy plant by a remote operator. Correlations and performance tests are used to compare the data collected by the system prototype with data collected by a commercial data acquisition system. The results indicate that the Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) is 0.103 m/s for the wind speed measurement and the correlation factor is greater than 0.9996. Overall, the low errors rates indicate that the data have been stored in a similar form to what would be expected with the use of a commercial data logger.

Design and Implementation of a High Temperature Control Monitoring Applied to Micro Thermoelectric Generators

“…These electronic sensing microcontrolled systems were built and programmed with the ability to update the firmware wirelessly via bluetooth or zigbee protocols. Based on the discussed system, was used a embedded system based on the microcontroller with USB interface and software for the development of embedded systems, i.e., systems that manipulate data inside another larger system, as is the case of monitoring systems [13]- [14] and of the proposed HTCM.…”

Design and validation of IoT measurement system for photovoltaic generation

“…Los sistemas IoT son aplicados para facilitar la comunicación entre los equipos y los seres humanos en varias áreas, tales como hospitales [6], procesos de manufactura [7], gestión de desechos [8], así como también energías renovables [9], [10].…”