Design of Solar Panels Efficiency Monitoring System

ⓒ Team I-GO-AT
2019-2020 Purdue winter program
Sehyeong Lee(CNU)
Soomin Lee(CNU)
Laith Ellis(Purdue Univ)

📋 Introduce

System architecture for continuous monitoring of solar panels efficiency

The system collects various data, including the surface temperature of the solar panels, degree of power charge, weather information, and other technical data. The different components that carry out this data collection include a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), OpenWeatherMap Application Programming Interface (API), and the equipment of Victron Energy and Dragino.

Our web-based GUI displays all of the data collected, which can be easily presented to farmers allowing them to monitor solar energy efficiency in real-time.

📖 Architecture

Solar Panel Controller Data

Solar charge Controller -> LoRaWAN Module -> LoRaWAN GateWay -> TTN -> MySQL(Our Server) -> GUI

Surface Temperature Of Solar Cell

Sensor -> LoRaGateWay -> Router -> ThingSpeak -> MySQL(Our Server) -> GUI

Weather Data

OpenWeatherMap API(https://openweathermap.org) -> GUI

📷 WEB - GUI

• Main monitoring (Dashboard)

• history monitoring (Database)

✔️ Development Environment

##### Front #####

React
Bootstrap
Chart.js
Material-ui

##### Backend #####

Node.js
Express
MySQL