A Photovoltaic Wireless Monitoring System

The use of renewable energy sources (RES) as green energy is rapidly spreading to the world. As the installed power capacity of these sources increases, especially photovoltaic energy which is one of the most emerging RES technologies due to their continuous technological progress. Monitoring PV systems is needed to provide information to operate and control these systems. In this article we propose an electronic and wireless remote system, which allows us the acquisition and the processing of photovoltaic station data. The aim of our work is the construction of a powerful system which is reliable, less expensive, and able to transfer the state of the installation to the operator in real time or store it in an online database. Our system consists of two parts, a hardware part based on the Raspberry pi card and a software part that consists of the installation and configuration of open source applications on the Raspberry card. Moreover, we also configure a given online database which will allow us to store and process our station's data remotely.