Developed an IoT-based smart solar energy monitoring system for environmental sustainability

Currently, electricity demand is constantly increasing all over the world, and the demand for this electricity is much higher than the production. As a result, the whole world is facing a global problem. In this decade, many researchers have been concerned about it and have suggested many ways to generate electricity in several ways, but they are not all concerned about low-cost, user-friendly, reliable data loggers and monitoring systems. To resolve the issue, we proposed an intelligent and environment-friendly way to generate electricity in all areas of a developing country. Initially, heat is generated either through household cooking activities or by burning excess or unnecessary garbage. After that, the solar panels are charged from the generated heat, and the charge is stored in a battery from the solar panel. The data logger, which is based on the ESP32 microcontroller, records all monitoring parameters on the cloud and presents them in the Android application. All the processes are completed automatically without any human interaction, and burning unnecessary garbage establishes environmental sustainability. The data logger hardware prototype that has been created incorporates four sensors to measure temperature, humidity, voltage, and current, which show up on an Android application with real-time data on many metrics. Additionally, it provides maintenance professionals with crucial information about any problems related to battery charging. To complete the work, we have created the hardware implementation of photovoltaic systems that use the IoT for remote data collection to provide us sustainability, and this prototype’s total cost is affordable.