Data logging for smart and fixed of solar and wind system

Submitted By

Bilal ur Rehman Su-15-01-071-011

Sardar Ali Su-15-01-071-44
Rashid khan Su-15-01-071-40

Supervised by.
Dr.Engr.Mahmood khan

Session (2015-2019)

Department of Electrical Engineering,

Sarhad University of Science &IT, Peshawar.
 Certificate of Approval
We approve the project proposal of Bilal ur rehman, Sardar ali and Rashid khan titled “Data
logging for smart and fixed of solar and wind system” submitted to Department of
Electrical Engineering, Sarhad University of Science &IT, Peshawar in partial fulfillment of
requirement for the degree of BE(EE).

Engr.Dr.Mahmood khan ________________________

Supervisor

Dr. ____________________ _
Evaluation Committee Head

Engr.Ayman Iqbal _____________________

FYP Coordinator, EED.
Introduction:
The project is about uploading the data of four different renewable energy model to
the Web. There are two big categories to achieve renewable energy, one is fixed system
and the other one is a smart system .The prototype system is built for capture the
maximum renewable power for increasing the efficiency or increase the generation
power. The fixed system has fixed solar and fixed turbine to generate power . The smart
system has moveable solar and turbine to generate maximum power. Where the solar is
use to capture maximum sunlight for maximum power point tracking similarly the wind
turbine generate power from blowing of air. The foundation for solar cells was laid in
1839, when the photovoltaic effect was discovered by E.Becquerel. In 1958, over a
century later, Vanguard I was launched as the first satellite poweredby solar cells [1]. A
great deal of research has since then been carried out within the field ofphotovoltaic,
where some of this research has addressed maximization of the power outtake [2].When
harvesting solar energy by the means of electrical solar cells, several parameters must
beoptimized to attain high power output. One of the main issues is that the power
obtained from asolar cell varies with the electrical load applied to the cell, and it is
therefore important to operateat a load that gives maximal power. This operating point is
affected by numerous conditions, forexample temperature, light intensity and light
incidence angle.[3] . The data of both systems can be logged on web with reading and
relative graphs is plotted of both system with respect to different time. The main purpose
of data logging to is comparing the power generation and efficiency of smart and fixed
system. The data logging web system we can access everywhere and can easily check the
behavior of the system.

Problem Statement:
As the wind does not blow all the time nor does the sun shine all the time,solar and wind
power alone are poor power sources. The tracking system of wind and solar system is
incomplete without data logging. Since Arduino is not that much powerful to save bulk data
process it and give us some useful information. Therefore we need high processing system
such as cloud or server-side processing. For this purpose, we will send our data to web to log
the data and can easily check the behavior of the system without any trouble. This system
solves two problems, first data logging and processing it to obtain useful information, second
monitor all the data including reading and graphs. Since web can be accessed anywhere in the
world, where www is accessible.
Objectives:
The main objective of project is as under:
 Collecting data of different system and technologies such as fixed and smart
hybrid systems
 Designing web table for both fixed and smart system along with wind and
solar system
 After saving the data plotting the comparative graph between fixed and smart
system of three parameters such as voltage, current and power
 Uploading the data to web in real time
 Testing one week in different environment and light sensitivity

Methodology:
A project can be divided into three major phases as follows:
a) Design phase:
The system is designed to use client-side coding which we will use in this project as
ESP-32. ESP will connect to internet router to connect it to the internet
At the other hand we are having html CSS and php coding to receive the data log it
into the web and plot comparative graph
b) Implementation phase:
We will code the ESP_32 to receive the data from Arduino collect it and concatenate it to
one string. Than ESP-32 will generate a post request and send all the data to web.
Html is a markup language used widely at front end of web and CSS for designing the
tables, php is for data logging and processing
c) Testing phase:
The test would be performed by implementing this system on a subjective area and analyzing
the performance by changing wind direction and light direction.

Applications
The system is applicable everywhere for data logging and monitoring system. Also for data
processing and plotting the comparative graph of huge bulk data.
Block Diagram:

Node MCU Internet Cloud/Web

ESP-32 Server

Gantt chart:

Work/Schedule Nov-Dec January February March April May

Plan 2018 2019 2019 2019 2019 2019

Literature
Survey

Hardware work
Sample Testing
Observation and
calculation of
Results

Thesis writing

References:
[1] F.C Treble. Solar cells.volume 127, pages 505–527, 1980.

[2] T. Esram and P.L. Chapman.Comparison of photovoltaic array maximum power

pointtracking techniques. IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, 22(2):439–449, 2007.

[3] Antonio Luque and Steven Hegedus, editors.Handbook of Photovoltaic Science and
Engineering John Wiley & Sons, 2003.
[4] A. Ortiz-Conde, F.J. Garc´ıaS´anchez, and J. Muci. New method to extract the model
parameters.

[5] Arduino ESP8266 documentation. Available from: https:

//github:com/esp8266/Arduino

[6] Team, E. S. I. ESP8266EX Datasheet. 2015. Available from:

http://download:arduino:org/products/UNOWIFI/0A-ESP8266-
Datasheet-EN-v4:3:pdf

[7] ESP8266 overview. Available from: https://espressif:com/en/