文档介绍：Solar aspects of papers
An Open-Source Monitoring System for Remote Solar Power Applications
Nikolas Wolfe
CIS 4914 Senior Project
Advisor: Dave Small (******@)
12/11/09
Abstract
Renewable energy systems are a growing and increasingly popular way to generate electricity. Around the world, such technologies as wind and solar power are ing ever more prolific alternatives to electrical generation methodologies involving the burning and consumption of fossil fuels. As with any new technological paradigm, new challenges have emerged which are unique to the utilization of renewable energy systems. One of these challenges in particular is the development of effective monitoring technologies pensate for the decentralized nature of remote power generation. This project details the development of an open-source monitoring system for remote solar power systems. While the notion of remote monitoring in general is abstract and passes a fairly broad technological field, the problem space that this project is specifically concerned with is the reduction of cost and the use of open platforms to make solar monitoring viable in developing countries where both the resources and general knowledge required to undertake such efforts are particularly scarce.
Currently, solar monitoring technologies are expensive, limited in their application, and for the most part proprietary. A lack of popular exposure may be partly to blame for this lack of development, but it is arguable that such systems can be developed using non-customized hardware and open-source software that can be obtained and run anywhere in the world. This project is one such argument. In the following pages I will detail how I was able to essfully develop and implement a system that can monitor the performance of a remote solar array using both cheap and widely available technologies. This proof of concept is sufficient to show that solar remote monitoring is neither expensive nor particularly cumbersome to