Integrated wireless sensor network and real time smart controlling and monitoring system for efficient energy management in standalone photovoltaic systems

Abstract

In the present work, wireless sensor network and smart real-time controlling and monitoring system are integrated for efficient energy management of standalone photovoltaic system. The proposed system has two main components namely the monitoring and controlling system and the wireless communication system. LabView software has been used in the implementation of the monitoring and controlling system. On the other hand, ZigBee wireless modules have been used to implement the wireless system. The main functions of monitoring and controlling unit is to efficiently control the energy consumption form the photovoltaic system based on accurate determination of the periods of times at which the loads are required to be operated. The wireless communication system send the data from the monitoring and controlling unit to the loads at which desired switching operations are performed. The wireless communication system also continuously feeds the monitoring and controlling unit with updated input data from the sensors and from the photovoltaic module send to calculate and record the generated, the consumed, and the stored energy to apply load switching saving schemes if necessary. It has to be mentioned that our proposed system is a low cost and low power system because and it is flexible to be upgraded to fulfill additional users' requirements

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“…The monitoring and control is used for monitoring, controlling, and recording the system components. Nowadays, ZigBee based solutions draw considerable attentions in wireless Monitoring and control systems and an excellent survey about ZigBee and there current application was given in [2]. Considering all the advantages of ZigBee [2], we have selected it to implement the wireless part of this work.…”

“…Nowadays, ZigBee based solutions draw considerable attentions in wireless Monitoring and control systems and an excellent survey about ZigBee and there current application was given in [2]. Considering all the advantages of ZigBee [2], we have selected it to implement the wireless part of this work. The wireless communication systems is integrated with the hardware sensor circuits, the hardware interface circuit, and the monitoring and control software environment.…”

“…Wireless communication based monitoring and control systems have become very popular for the last couple of years as they reduce the complexity related to the installation and maintenance of the system compared to its wired counterpart [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]. A typical wireless monitoring and control system comprises battery operated and low power wireless sensors and actuators.…”