SOLAR ENERGY UTILIZATION AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM USING IoT
Aniket Zende
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
1.1 INTRODUCTION
The project aim is to design an application which is monitored over Wi-Fi technology. The advent of new high-speed technology and the growing computer capacity provided realistic opportunity for new IoT controls and realization of new methods of control theory. This technical improvement together with the need for high performance IoT created faster, more accurate and more intelligent IoT s using new IoT s control devices, new drivers and advanced control algorithms. This project describes a new economical solution of IoT control systems. The presented IoT control system can be used for different sophisticated IoT IC applications. Wi-Fi (Short for Wireless Fidelity) is a wireless technology that uses radio frequency to transmit data through the air. Wi-Fi has initial speeds of 1mbps to 2mbps. Wi-Fi transmits data in the frequency band of 2.4 GHz. It implements the concept of frequency division multiplexing technology. Range of Wi-Fi technology is 40-300 feet. The solar plate is connected to microcontroller through potentiometer. The controlling device for the IoT controlling in the project is a Microcontroller. The data sent from controlling device over Wi-Fi will be received by Wi-Fi module connected to Microcontroller. Microcontroller reads the data and decides the direction and operates the dc motors connected to it accordingly. The Microcontroller is programmed used embedded ‘C’ language.
The vision of the system is to provide an efficient internet based system to control and monitor the relay operations as well as application status. The system offers users an easy and effective means of controlling the ON/OFF condition of the developed application. This system provides information about solar plate output, battery capacity and value of soil moisture sensor. A variety of solution for connectivity is available such as SMS, Wi-Fi, Radio Frequency or Bluetooth. For the controlling there are two microcontrollers which are widely used, namely Arduino and Raspberry Pi. This project uses the Arduino microcontroller due to its simplicity and user friendly GUI.
