Photovoltaic Applications in the Internet of Things

What is it about?

In order to develop future projects in the field of photovoltaic solar energy, it is essential to accurately know the potential solar resources. There are many methods to estimate the incident solar radiation in a certain place. However, most of them are very expensive or do not have the ideal characteristics for good monitoring of a particular photovoltaic installation. For these reasons, an electronic device connected to the internet of things (IoT) is presented in this paper which manages to measure global radiation in photovoltaic applications. The device developed has been patented in the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office. It presents some features that make it very suitable to measure photovoltaic installations with the advantage of being a low cost and very reliable device. The device has been tested to determine global horizontal irradiance obtaining a correlation coefficient R2 = 0.994.

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Why is it important?

The objective of this work is to present a registered utility model with which the global radiation is monitored. This utility model will be especially indicated for applications based on photovoltaic solar energy since it has good characteristics for its integration in the monitoring of photovoltaic systems