Increase efficiency of solar photovoltaic system by data acquisition process

Abstract

In current scenario, renewable energy sources helps to make the environment greener and better. Currently, solar energy is the most available resource of renewable energy. This paper mainly represents the working principle of solar photovoltaic system and way to increase efficiency of the solar system using a method known as the data acquisition system. Data acquisition is a process to monitor changes in system, collect corresponding data and analyze data to make a decision. The data acquisition system has two parts, data acquisition board that contains Microcontroller Kit, ADC, and RS-232 and Zigbee communication modules. Another part is running on a host computer that has a set of software tools as Keil, Proteus, and Visual Basic 6.0 help to analyze and store data. Zigbee communication helps in wireless data transfer without any communication cost. Complete experiment and the result show the data acquisition designed is simple and stable.