Cloud-based application platform for smart monitoring & management of photovoltaic generation systems

A solar photovoltaic generation system is regarded as an eco-friendly energy resource. Currently, a solar generation system is expanding to private power generation companies due to a decline in panel prices and an unlimited access permission to an existing power system. The photovoltaic (PV) monitoring and fault diagnosis system can effectively maintain the PV system in the environment where the 1MW or less sized renewable facilities are increasing rapidly. In this paper, we propose an effective method to provide a monitoring and management system of photovoltaic generation systems based on cloud based application-sharing-platform (i.e. SaaS application platform).