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This paper presents a design approach to an embedded monitoring system found in distributed renewable energy power systems. The grid connected distributed power system, delivers energy to the consumers located on the micro-grid, operating at distribution voltage levels, and also delivering the remaining surplus energy to the main distribution grid. The aim of this paper is to present the development...
The objectives of this article were to design a low-cost three-phase AC voltage measurement circuit and new Android smartphone application to monitor the measuring voltage from a safe distance. The smart distance power electronic measurement (SDPEM) system was designed based on an Arduino UNO R3 board used as a microcontroller to read and calculate the RMS values from a three-phase AC voltage measurement...
Energy management is becoming a trending topic in the 21st century. It includes planning and operation of energy production and energy consumption units. One of initial steps for an effective energy cost control program is the assessment of energy consumption and pattern of energy usage. This is the place where Energy Monitoring comes into picture. It is a technique based on the standard management...
Due to the increasing demand for monitoring electrical parameters in real time, many efforts have been recently made to develop different efficient data monitoring systems. This paper elucidates the design and construction of a low-cost Universal Serial Bus (USB) based electrical parameters monitoring system (EPMS) to measure various types of electrical parameters with visualization. In industry,...
The ability of monitoring a laboratory scale power system is crucial for research and educational purposes. This paper proposes the development of a low-cost real-time platform for monitoring a laboratory scale power system. The design and development of this novel monitoring system is based on a TMS320F28335 microcontroller of Texas Instruments. The microcontroller reads voltage and current measurements...
In this paper, the development of photovoltaic module tracking and web based data acquisition system for real-time monitoring of electrical parameter of photovoltaic module and the direct solar insolation has been proposed. The main objective of this paper is to evaluate the performance of proposed photovoltaic module of photovoltaic system by remotely collecting the onsite data during its standstill...
This paper proposes monitoring of the dual dc-dc converters that independently operate of each other in the same topology (Buck-Boost). The dual converter structure is proposed to implement asymmetrical string inverter that is intended to be used variously arranged PV strings. The converters are operated by independently running MPPT algorithms. The converters are supplied by programmed dc sources...
This paper presents a real-time monitoring system for PV power plants based on a microcontroller Atmega328P-PU. The proposed system, whose performances can be relatively close to those achieved with commercial monitoring systems, is simple, low-cost and open source technology-based. In addition, a user interface, capable to communicate through a wireless network by using a standard communication protocol...
This paper presents a comprehensive solution for condition monitoring (CM) of proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell systems. It comprises a modular dc–dc converter, a 90-channel fuel cell voltage monitor, and embedded diagnostics algorithms. Besides providing its basic functionality, the dc–dc converter is designed to perform diagnostic probing of fuel cells by injecting current excitation waveforms...
The real time Battery Monitoring System (BMS) has been designed using LabVIEW Interface for Arduino (LIFA). The voltage devide was used for sensing of battery voltage and the ACS712 based on effect hall sensor was used for current sensing. The computer with Ni LaBVIEW calculated and observed voltage and current of Battery. The result showed that BMS can monitor of voltage and current with real time...
The design of intelligent monitoring system which can be use to monitor the situation of fire and the leakage of housing is based on STC12C5608AD MCU and MQ-2 gas sensor meanwhile it includes the human body infrared module and an acousto-optic monitoring module, monitoring of the indicators by each module, and the detection result is transmitted to the micro controller. Once there is something dangerous,...
Heart rate exhibiting direct proportional characteristics with change in blood volume during heart beats can be measured by modeling an analog and digital manipulation scheme. A model of a single Microcontroller chip based heart beat counter, capable of data storage and suitable for remote communication via Bluetooth, would be designed and implemented and checked for contrast with a commercial heart...
It's necessary to measure each monomer cell voltage of the fuelcell stack in order to ensure fuelcell stack to operate normally. Therefore, a host computer monitoring management software for fuelcell voltage polling measurement based on virtual instrument programming software LabVIEW8.5 was developed. The host computer monitoring management software could show fuelcell's operation voltage to user...
A monitoring circuit for individual photovoltaic (PV) panels in grid-connected systems is proposed, which exhibits a number of features devised to simplify and reduce cost of diagnostics and maintenance of the PV plant. In particular, the system is provided with an effective energy harvesting supply stage, which eliminates the requirement for external supply or batteries; furthermore, no cables are...
Since it is possible to use x86 based modules in embedded projects, the complexity of the Embedded World has increased dramatically. This paper describes the results of our current research work, which is aimed at helping the OEM customer of embedded modules, as well as the developers, to track down errors. The paper shows it is possible to monitor the electric power consumption of an embedded module...
This project is concerned with the design and development of a battery charger and charging management system that is capable of charging the multi-cell, series connected battery bank that will be employed by the Swinburne University of Technology electric car team. The system developed features three primary components: a controllable, variable power supply, an intelligent battery charger management...
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