Review on IoT Based Remote Monitoring for Solar Photovoltaic System

Global meliorism of technologies brings down the equipment cost of renewable energy system especially solar photovoltaic system. Depleting resources as well as increasing energy demand make the people to look out for alternative energy sources. So, it becomes essential to increase the energy conversion efficiency of the panels. Technology that helps in increasing the energy efficiency is Internet of Things-IoT. In this digital era IoT evolved as a powerful enabler for it transforms the use of internet to provide solution to improve the living standards of the people. IoT with embedded technology allows sensing and communication devices to interact with each other in all ways to respond to the individual needs of the people, thus it merges digital and physical world. In monitoring and controlling the parameters of PV panel human intervention is replaced by machine-machine communication by IoT. IoT performs A3 that is at any time from any place collect data using sensors in the world and also analyze the data at any time and then process the data to make decisions and perform actions. IoT finds its application in all sectors such as health, industry, agriculture, energy etc. This paper discusses about the various methodologies involved in improving energy conversion efficiency of the PV panel using IoT.