Date of Award
Spring 2020
Document Type
Thesis
Publisher
Santa Clara : Santa Clara University, 2020.
Department
Electrical Engineering
First Advisor
Sarah Kate Wilson
Abstract
When deploying systems halfway across the world, having some system for monitoring their performance and status is essential. All We Are, in their mission to build solar panel installations in Uganda, encounters this problem daily. For our project, we worked with All We Are to deliver a system to monitor these solar installations. Building an embedded solution that can communicate with the solar installations and upload the data to the cloud allowed us to accomplish this goal. Our system connects data from the existing solar panel infrastructure to the cloud. The platform of our system is a Raspberry Pi microprocessor. It interfaces with the existing solar infrastructure through several sensors and a serial connection to the charge controller to record data. To communicate this data to the cloud, we use another serial device, a GSM modem, to connect to a cellular network and upload to a web server.
Recommended Citation
Murray, Ryan and Singh, Sharan, "Solar Panel Monitor and Data Logger" (2020). Electrical and Computer Engineering Senior Theses. 53.
https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/elec_senior/53