System to Measure Solar Power

System to Measure Solar Power

Author Name : Prof. S. D. Jadhav, Tanmay Singh, Vaibhav Pol, Ansh Parmar, Shabaz Khan

Abstract

The designed project measures different solar cell parameters like light intensity, voltage, current and temperature by using multiple sensor data acquisition. The project uses a solar panel to monitor sunlight and a PIC microcontroller. The project requires an LDR sensor for measuring light intensity, a voltage divider to measure voltage and a temperature sensor to measure the temperature. These measurements are then displayed by the microcontroller to a LCD screen.

The light intensity is monitored using an LDR sensor, voltage by voltage divider principle, current by current sensor and temperature by temperature sensor. All these data are displayed on a 16X2 LCD interfaced to 8051 family microcontroller. 

Keywords: Prevents damage to solar power, User friendly, Low maintenance, Cost effective.