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Since it’s advent in the 1970’s, renewable energy has been seen as an important step in the future towards a greener and more sustainable earth. As of 2017, 19.3% of the world’s electricity consumption was generated by renewable means. This along with recent advancements in technology has made harvesting renewable energy sources like solar energy cheaper and more accessible to the public. 2% or about 460kWh of the world’s consumable energy is from solar power and this number is said to rise as the years pass. Solar energy is a fast-growing, multi-billion dollar industry that continues to be cost-effective and a step towards sustainable energy. However, compared to fossil fuels, solar energy is less efficient. Nowadays, automation is being used to improve the way we harvest these energy sources. Automation can be provided by the use of Internet of Things (IoT). Using IoT, we can monitor various aspects or parameters regarding the performance of a solar panel so as to understand and improve the efficiency of solar panels. This paper describes a solar monitoring system consisting of a microcontroller and various sensors that collect information such as voltage, current, temperature levels and angle of tilt of a solar panel and provides this information to the client using Amazon Web Services (AWS) in order for them to take necessary action. |
