SULE MOHAMMED ALIU, ANETOR ASHER, JOSEPH BENEDICT, AMENAGHAWON CLINTON, ONAH CHRISTIAN CHUKWUBUIKEM, OYEWOLE CHRISTIAN DAMILOLA, OLUYOH EFEMENA, MIRACLE EBUBECHUKWU

This project focuses on designing a monitoring system using an Internet of Things (IoT) device that sends data to Thingspeak, a cloud-based platform. Solar system are affected by various factors such as temperature, weather condition and light intensity, on their output performance. These factors can lead to inefficient performance, increased maintenance cost and so on. Therefore, the aim of the project is to design and implement an intelligent virtual monitoring system that utilizes IoT to monitor PV solar panel array. To achieve this work, the role was centred on light sensor, voltage sensor and temperature sensor. These sensors are connected to on IoT gateway or a local data acquisition unit that acts as a bridge between the sensors and the internet collects the sensors data and prepares it for transmission to the cloud. Testing the monitoring system works satisfactorily. Having humidity of 85g/m3 on average, voltage of 35.78V during the day and 0V at night, temperature as high as 30 0c and low as 27 0c and luminance of 4201cd/m2 during the day and 0cd/m2 at night