Journal
SUSTAINABILITY
Volume 13, Issue 15, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su13158120
Keywords
solar PV; wireless monitoring system; sensors; data processing board; data transmission protocols; data acquisition
Funding
- Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia
- Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia [LRGS/2018/UNITENUKM/EWS/04]
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This review comprehensively reviews the progress of solar PV-based monitoring technologies, focusing on data processing and transmission protocols, as well as exploring key issues and challenges to propose suggestions for enhancing solar PV monitoring technologies in the future.
Solar photovoltaic (PV) is one of the prominent sustainable energy sources which shares a greater percentage of the energy generated from renewable resources. As the need for solar energy has risen tremendously in the last few decades, monitoring technologies have received considerable attention in relation to performance enhancement. Recently, the solar PV monitoring system has been integrated with a wireless platform that comprises data acquisition from various sensors and nodes through wireless data transmission. However, several issues could affect the performance of solar PV monitoring, such as large data management, signal interference, long-range data transmission, and security. Therefore, this paper comprehensively reviews the progress of several solar PV-based monitoring technologies focusing on various data processing modules and data transmission protocols. Each module and transmission protocol-based monitoring technology is investigated with regard to type, design, implementations, specifications, and limitations. The critical discussion and analysis are carried out with respect to configurations, parameters monitored, software, platform, achievements, and suggestions. Moreover, various key issues and challenges are explored to identify the existing research gaps. Finally, this review delivers selective proposals for future research works. All the highlighted insights of this review will hopefully lead to increased efforts toward the enhancement of the monitoring technologies in future sustainable solar PV applications.
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