AN IOT BASED APPROACH FOR MONITORING SOLAR POWER CONSUMPTION WITH ADAFRUIT CLOUD

Internet of things is an emerging technology that efficiently and effectively improving our daily life activities. It reducing the cost of living by automating the manual processes. It integrates physical objects and devices via internet for synchronized communication. Currently the cost of electricity is reaching the sky so we need some sources that can produce electricity naturally without any cost. Here, solar panels and solar plants take place for producing electricity in natural manner with sun light. Photo voltaic cells are used in these systems that converts the sun light into electricity. Mostly the solar systems are configured in rural or agricultural areas where electricity mediums are still not available. These systems are manually operated by humans. So there is need of efficient approach which automatically control and monitor the current, voltage and other parameters of solar systems and provides real time statistics to users. This research paper proposes an IOT based approach for solar power consumption and monitoring that allow the users to monitor or control a solar plant their mobiles. Majorly, solar plants are built in the locations where people cannot reach on daily basis so this approach allows the people to virtually control their systems from faraway places. Keywords— Solar System, Power Monitoring, Consumption Monitoring, Internet of Things, Cloud