Monitoring and detecting faults on a set of solar
panels, using a wireless sensor network (WNS) is our contribution in
this paper, this work is part of project we are working on at Al-
Zaytoonah University. The research problem has been exposed by
engineers and technicians or operators dealing with PV panel’s
maintenance, in order to monitor and detect faults within solar panels
which affect considerably the energy produced by the solar panels.
The proposed solution is based on installing WSN nodes with
appropriate sensors for more often occurred faults on the 45 solar
panels installed on the roof of IT faculty. A simulation has been done
on nodes distribution and a study for the design of a node with
appropriate sensors taking into account the priorities of the
processing faults. Finally a graphic user interface is designed and
adapted to tele-monitoring panels using WSN. The primary tests of
hardware implementation gave interesting results, the sensors
calibration and interference transmission problem have been solved.
A friendly GUI using high level language Visual Basic was
developed to carry out the monitoring process and to save data on
Excel File.