Author : Maulik Vyas, Kalpesh Chudasama#, Manan Bhatt and Bhavin Gohil

Nowadays, the growing demands of energy, insecure energy resources and emission of hazardous gases have attracted the attention of the whole world towards the renewable energy. Thus, at this time, the entire world is concentrated on the renewable energy sources. Also, the evolution in software technology, we are able to monitor the data of any system in real-time manner. Monitoring solar panel output is the best way to track the working of the solar power system continuously. Solar monitoring software allows not just viewing how much electricity the solar panels are generating, but also it gives real-time updates. Our project is designed with the help of LabVIEW and DAQ card. The solar panel is connected to the battery and then with sensors. We have connected four sensors with LabVIEW via DAQ hardware to acquire data. LabVIEW has shown a high performance in communicating with several devices simultaneously and high capability of displaying several variables behaviour at a time. Therefore, the proposed system develops a very simple, low cost, high reliable, photovoltaic data monitoring system using Lab-view software and DAQ hardware. The monitored data can be stored for further analysis. This project will be useful power for continually monitoring of solar energy at solar plant.

Keywords: LabVIEW, PV cell, Data acquisition, Real time data monitoring

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.6, No.6 (Dec-2016)