Remote Monitoring Surveillance System via LabVIEW employing the use of Hybrid Renewable Energy

Hybrid renewable energy consist of two or more types of energy generation to provide electricity particularly for rural or remote areas. On the other hand, surveillance system is well known not only for preventing and detecting crime, but also an effective tool for strengthening security measures and also gives the public confidence in community safety. However, a surveillance system faces a limitation for getting power directly from a conventional electrical grid when it comes to rural and remote area. Hence, the surveillance system especially in remote areas requires the source of energy from hybrid renewable energy sources in order for the system to work efficiently. Thus, in this paper, it aims to develop a surveillance system powered by hybrid renewable energy with a combination from solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind energy. The surveillance monitoring system is developed via LabVIEW software with a cloud platform, ThingSpeak which can be assessed remotely especially when applied at a remote area such as offshore, as the utilization of the power consumption is more constant and produces a higher energy capacity. The monitoring system is able to acquire, store and display the monitoring system and battery management system data in real time and can be assessed remotely by the user. The data collected are measured by using sensors, National Instruments (NI) USB-6009, LabVIEW software and ThingSpeak. The advantages of the system are that the surveillance system can be utilized by powering from the hybrid renewable energy with battery storage system to be used for monitoring purpose virtually and remotely where the data can also be retrieved on-line. Furthermore, this remotely monitoring system allows the flexibility of system to be extended with bigger scale of renewable energy plant.