Author : Rashmi Singh and S.P Singh

The proposed paper focus on developing a low cost and easy handling temperature monitoring system, based on radio frequency for wireless data transmission. The wireless system module architecture consists of a power supply, a sensor and a main node system mainly based on wireless radio frequency (RF) technology. The benefits of this system are low cost, high range of temperature sensing, management of data, response to temperature alert, and accuracy of required documentation. The system uses a low-power and gives high-performance. With this utilization, it is possible to design a cost efficient, reliable and accurate system which is perfectly suitable for monitor parameters in harsh environment as required in the outdoor solar application. This device has been tested in a solar NABL lab (Indore, India), for temperature monitoring and compares data with the calibrated monitoring system used in the laboratory. The collected data were used to evaluate the system workability. Data has been taken for the whole year. Also data shows that the system can measure and monitor the temperature at given distance ranges.

Keywords: Wireless sensor network; Radio Frequency Identification; thermocouple; temperature monitoring; solar equipment

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.5, No.1 (Feb-2015)