A Monitoring System of Photovoltaic Array Based on ZigBee Technology

Author

Li, Zhengming ; Liao, Kang ; Cai, Yanli ; Pan, Tianhong

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Inf. Eng., Jiangsu Univ., Zhenjiang, China

fYear

2010

fDate

23-25 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper presents a monitoring system of photovoltaic (PV) array based on ZigBee technology, after a comparative analysis of different monitoring approaches. The proposed system can achieve a real-time acquisition of the PV array´s parameters and the operational status monitoring via Wireless Network and Internet. In this paper, the system architecture using distributed information management is expounded as well as the hardware block diagram and functional design of the monitoring nodes, and the software workflow of the key technologies, such as data transmission and network formation.

Keywords

data acquisition; monitoring; personal area networks; photovoltaic power systems; Internet; ZigBee technology; data transmission; distributed information management; photovoltaic array monitoring; realtime acquisition; wireless network formation; Arrays; Monitoring; Photovoltaic systems; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; Zigbee;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM), 2010 6th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3708-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3709-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WICOM.2010.5601161

Filename

5601161