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http://dx.doi.org/10.12815/kits.2019.18.1.74

A Study on IoT/LPWA-based Low Power Solar Panel Monitoring System for Smart City  

Trung, Pham Minh (Dept. of Integrated IT Eng., Seoul National Univ. of Science and Tech)
Mariappan, Vinayagam (Graduate School of Nano IT Design Fusion, Seoul National Univ. of Science and Tech)
Cha, Jae Sang (Dept. of Electronics and IT Media Eng., Seoul National Univ. of Science and Tech)
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The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems / v.18, no.1, 2019 , pp. 74-82 More about this Journal
Abstract
The revolution of industry 4.0 is enabling us to build an intelligent connection society called smart cities. The use of renewable energy in particular solar energy is extremely important for modern society due to the growing power demand in smart cities, but its difficult to monitor and manage in each buildings since need to be deploy low energy sensors and information need to be transfer via wireless sensor network (WSN). The Internet of Things (IoT) / low-power wide-area (LPWA) is an emerging WSN technology, to collect and monitor data about environmental and physical electrical / electronics devices conditions in real time. However, providing power to IoT sensor end devices and other public electrical loads such as street lights, etc is an important challenging role because the sensor are usually battery powered and have a limited life time. In this paper, we proposes an efficient solar energy-based power management scheme for smart city based on IoT technology using LoRa wide-area network (LoRaWAN). This approach facilitates to maintain and prevent errors of solar panel based energy systems. The proposed solution maximizing output the power generated from solar panels system to distribute the power to the load and the grid. In this paper, we proved the efficiency of the proposed system with Simulink based system modeling and real-time emulation.
Keywords
Solar Panel; IoT; LPWA; LoRaWAN; Wireless Sensors Network (WSN); Smart City;
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