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Keywords: PV/T façade system is a novel style for solar renewable energy applications, which the system can improve the
Solar energy efficiency of the comprehensive utilization of solar energy. In order to research the performance of PV/T façade
PV/T module system, a modular remote monitoring system based on the Internet of Things and cloud platform technology is
Internet of thing
proposed, built, deployed as experimental prototype in this paper. The system collects temperature, pressure and
Remote monitoring
wind speed through two RS485 RTU modules, and transmits data to database on the cloud platform via 4G
network. The monitoring system allows authorized users to access real-time data or alarm information in a
remote way via a website or mobile application. Besides the PV/T System operating parameters, meteorological
data are also monitored to ensure a more complete analysis of performance. The proposed modular architecture
can be built easily and rapidly, and onsite experimental test shows the stability of the monitoring system, which
makes the system flexible enough for potential future modifications.
* Corresponding author. Room A711, Innovation Park Building, School of Control Science and Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, No.2 Linggong Road,
Ganjingzi District, Dalian City, Liaoning Province, 116024, China.
E-mail address: zliang@dlut.edu.cn (L. Zhao).
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2021.102451
Received 6 December 2020; Received in revised form 20 March 2021; Accepted 21 March 2021
Available online 27 March 2021
2352-7102/© 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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working parameters of the system into the computer by means of data information technology, the trend of using the Internet of Things to
acquisition card or special data acquisition equipment [10,13–16]. So control devices is becoming more and more obvious. IoT technology
there are the following problems: combines sensor perception technology, Internet technology, and
intelligent platform technology to realize the comprehensive collection
(1) The cost is relatively high, the need for a dedicated computer, the of information, real-time transmission and intelligent processing
price of commercial software is not expensive [24–28]. Distributed solar photovoltaic system located in different
(2) Only a single solar photovoltaic system can be managed geographical locations can be unified access to cloud platform for
(3) Complex wiring, the computer is located inside the building, centralized monitoring, maintenance to achieve unrelated information
while the real system is located outside the building, results in a interrelation and make the operating system more intelligent, so as to
longer wiring system, easy to cause interference, resulting in provide more effective and reasonable management, which results in
measurement errors. achieving comprehensive collection of information, real-time trans
mission and intelligent processing [8,9]. It is of great significance to the
In order to reduce the cost of the monitoring system, the second development and application of solar energy system.
development period, some embedded development board as the form of The BS architecture monitoring system based on Internet of things
acquisition module gradually appeared, to replace the special collection and cloud platform came into being in this context. The characteristics
card. In 1998, Mukaro designed a low-cost data acquisition system based of these systems are distributed and networked, and users can access
on an 8-bit ST62E20 microcontroller for the PV system [13,14], which monitoring data anytime, anywhere through the web or mobile phone,
used an A/D module to collect data from the sensor, and used RS232 and the real-time performance of the system is much better than the
communication interface to transmit data to the computer. Because of previous two phases. Villagrán designed an environmental monitoring
the accuracy of the microcontroller and A/D acquisition module, this network composed of eight meteorological stations based on the LP3500
solution does not give enough precision on measurements, but the cost is controller and GSM modem [29]. The monitoring data could be trans
greatly reduced. Eke proposed a multi-channel temperature measure mitted by SMS message, which makes the system suitable for remote
ment system for PV system [17], in order to reduce the cost, the authors areas. In Ref. [30], the operating data of PV plant inverters is monitored
connected 16 NTC temperature sensors to a 12-bit A/D module via a 16 by the STM32F407 microcontroller, and the user could view the infor
channel multiplexer. The collected data are transmitted to a computer mation by a Web browser. In Ref. [31], Pereira presented a monitoring
via the RS232communication interface too. Besides the wired commu system for three grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) plants. The online
nication interface, in Ref. [18] authors presented a remote fault diag Web Monitor allowed authorized users to access the database in a cloud
nosis meter for photovoltaic power generation systems via ZigBee platform. In Ref. [8], the authors proposed distributed real-time moni
wireless sensor network and a single-chip PIC18F8720 microcontroller toring system for small solar home systems, the system has been
is used to realize data acquisition. Shariff et al. [19] used two installed at three sites (Alcalá de Henares (Madrid, Spain), Linares (Jaén,
PIC18F4553 microcontrollers to develop a ZigBee-based data acquisi Spain) and Oaxaca (Oaxaca, Mexico)) with the IEC standard accuracy
tion system for the PV system. A DS1307 circuit was used as a real-time requirements. This paper combines the cloud platform of Internet of
clock and a 1024 Kbits EEPROM memory allowed 7 days of data storage. things with PVT double facade system, and makes the following
In recent years, open-source hardware and software systems are gaining contributions:
the enthusiasm of researchers because the cost of open source is
significantly reduced and the system is more flexible and scalable, such ⋅ The monitoring system is simple in layout and low in price.
as PcDuino and Arduino, Raspberry (RPi) [20–23]. Fuentes designed a ⋅ Multiple PV systems can be managed at the same time.
low cost with a flexible architecture based on the Arduino open-source ⋅ The monitoring results can be obtained on the website anytime and
electronic platform to monitor PV systems [20]. Gad et al. have imple anywhere through mobile phone or computer.
mented an integrated low-cost temperature sensor for solar energy ap
plications based on Arduino [21]. Our research team has been working on solar energy-related fields
With the rapid development of the Internet of Things and since 2010, including solar heat pump technology, solar photovoltaic
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of the optical heat system is shown in Fig. 1. Refrigerant through the PV/ 2.2.1. Sensors
T facade to absorb heat and then enter into the plate heat exchanger and Temperature measuring points of the monitoring system were
release heat energy to prepare domestic hot water, and then pumped by recorded by Pt100. There are eight temperature sensors located on the
the refrigerant pump into the PV/T facade, to complete a cycle. The surface of the PV/T plant, four on the outside surface and four are on the
optical heat system mainly includes the measurement of temperature, inside surface. There are five temperature sensors located in the cavity
pressure, flow rate, wind speed, irradiance, etc. The measuring in between the PV/T plant and the wall evenly distributed, and there are
struments are shown in Table 1. three temperature sensors on the wall. The installations of temperature
The proposed Roll-bond PV/T module is composed of a glass cover sensors are shown in Fig. 4 (a), (b), (c).
plate, a photovoltaic cell sheet, TPT, an EVA adhesive, and a single-side Besides temperature sensors, the data acquisition system also in
inflatable flat plate collector. The size of a single component is 1.56 m × cludes pressure meter, flowmeters, and wind speed sensor, shown in
0.78 m, the heat-collecting area is 1.2 m2, the power generation capacity Fig. 4 (d), (e), (f). Solar irradiance and wind speed sensor can be
is 4.2 W, and the module’s photovoltaic cell coverage is 64%. Under measured by meteorological stations. The Modbus RTU is responsible for
standard test conditions, the maximum heating power of the PV/T collecting temperature and wind speed, and the other measurement
module is 800 W when the solar radiation intensity is 1000 W/m2 and meters communicate to the gateway via the RS485 interface. The pa
the ambient temperature is 25 ◦ C, and the maximum electrical efficiency rameters of various sensors and measuring instruments are presented in
is 16%. Table 1.
The flow range of the refrigerant pump used in this experiment is
0–0.25 m3/h, the maximum lift is 500 kPa; The plate heat exchanger 2.2.2. Data acquisition and communication system
selects the fluorine-water exchanger BL26-18, the heat transfer medium Fig. 5 shows a photograph of the realized prototype. The power
is R134a and water, the heat transfer power is 5 kW; The type of the supply of the system was provided by 24Vdc voltage regulators, which
liquid storage tank is BLR-233, the storage capacity is 4 L. In order to was used to supply the RTU and gateway modules. Fig. 6 shows the
ensure the inlet of the refrigerant pump and PV/T component are liquid, RS485 RTU collector module, which has twelve PT100 interfaces. A total
the tank is installed between the outlet of the exchanger and the inlet of of twenty-one temperatures (eight PT100s on the surface of PV/T plant,
the refrigerant pump; The type of the dry filter is EK-164S, the diameter five PT100sin the cavity, three PT100s on the wall, two PT100s for water
is ϕ10 mm; The capacity of the storage tank is 150 L; The type of the inlet and outlet, two PT100s for refrigerant inlet and outlet and one
pump is SRT25-6AS, the flow range of the pump is 0–52 L/min, the PT100 for the storage tank) sensors are deployed in the experiment, so 2
maximum lift is 6 m. The above experimental devices are shown as RTU modules are required. Except for the PT100 acquisition interface,
Fig. 2b, c, d. the RTU still has four channels of 4–20 mA interfaces, which were used
The micro inverter used in this experimental system is the EVT500 to collect wind speed and flowmeters. Besides these sensors, meteoro
micro inverter with a maximum input power of 600 W, the working logical communication to a gateway via the RS485 interface, and the
voltage range of 18–54 V and the maximum output AC power of 500w. detail communication parameters are shown in Table 1.
Photovoltaic power generation monitor uploads PV power generation The main function of the gateway in this system to collect the data
data to the monitoring platform, including the instantaneous power and from different sensors periodically via the RS485 interface. The
power generation of each PV/T component connected to an inverter. configuration of the gateway is realized by the online tool on the cloud
The above experimental devices are shown as Fig. 2e and f. platform, includes the communication address, starting position and
transmission data length of each sensor. The gateway connects to the
2.2. Data acquisition and communication system cloud platform via 4G, and the operation of the gateway is not limited by
location, as long as there is a network signal that can be accessed to the
Fig. 3 shows the diagram of the monitoring system, which includes a cloud platform. When the sensor is not online or the device failure, the
diagram of photothermal and photoelectric as well as the architecture of gateway will repeat the acquisition three times, and the fault informa
IoT, and cloud platform. The gateway collects meteorological and sensor tion is reported to the cloud platform if there is still no feedback data
parameters; data is sent via 4G and information is stored in distributed after three acquisition instructions. At the same time, the platform will
data servers of the cloud platform. The database of the cloud platform send an SMS or an email message to the user. After the gateway gath
adopts the technology of dynamic separation, load balancing, cluster ering all sensor data, it will send data to the data center in the cloud
ingress, guarantees the stable operation of the service under the condi platform as the form of MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport).
tion of high concurrency and a large volume of access, and the system
automatically backs up the data, thus ensuring the security of the 3. Software implementation
monitoring data.
In this paper, the software implementation mainly includes two
parts. First is the data acquisition software, data processing software and
data sending software in the gateway, and the main program flowchart
Table 1 of gateway is shown in Fig. 7. After the system is initialized the sensors
Measuring instrument parameter. data is collected by gateway and stored in MQTT packet. After that,
gateway will send data will send packet at the periodical time.
Devices Type Range Precision
The other is software in cloud, which has real-time display function,
Temperature Pt100 − 20–100 ◦ C ±0.1 ◦ C historical data query function, data alarm management, access permis
sensor
Pressure CYYZ11-H 0~4 MPa ±0.25%FS
sion management function. Data obtained from a data acquisition sys
transmitter tem are published via a web server, and authorized users can log into the
Wind speed CHWVN 0~3 m/s ±0.2%FS system by username and password, from any device or computer. Multi-
transmitter
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user concurrent access is supported. Users can view the device’s real-
Turbine JST-LWG- 0.15–1.5 m / ±0.5%FS
time data, alarm push, real-time curves, historical data, remote manip
flowmeter 10Y h
Mass flowmeter LHD8MH01 0–260 kg/h ±0.15/±0.20% ulation, and other functions remotely via Web or mobile app.
Pyranometer TBQ-2 <5%FS(The error of the Monitoring system development on cloud platforms is achieved by
accuracy of the sun’s configuration, WYSIWYG, namely what you see is what you get [36].
position) The advantages of configuration development are modular program
Inverter EVT500
ming, low difficulty, and fast implementation. Fig. 8-(a), Fig. 8-(b) and
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Qw position of these two points is relatively lower, and the sun’s direct
COP = ∑ (2)
(WR + WW ) striking time is less than the other monitoring points. The temperature of
the monitoring point increases as the distribution position increases as
Where, COP is thermal performance coefficient of the system; WR is shown in Fig. 10 (b). However, unlike the temperature points on the
refrigerant pump power consumption, W; Ww is water pump power surface, there is no significant correlation between the monitoring
consumption, W. points in these cavities and the solar irradiance. In addition to solar
The thermal efficiency of PV/T façade system is, irradiance, wind speed is also an important factor affecting the tem
Qw perature in the cavity. The temperature change characteristics of the
ηth = (3) monitoring points on the wall also increase with the increase in the
IAPV/T
position as shown in Fig. 10 (c). Fig. 10 (d) describes the temperature of
Where, ηth is thermal efficiency, %; I is the amount of solar radiation, W/ the water tank, the inlet and outlet temperatures of water and refrig
m2; APV/T is PV/T module area, m2. erant, respectively. During the experiment, the water in the storage tank
The electrical efficiency formula is as follows. is drained every night and refilled with 20 ◦ C water the next day. It can
be seen that, after an afternoon operation, the system can heat the water
ηe =
P
(4) from 20 ◦ C to about 40 ◦ C, which could meet the need of hot water in
IAPV daily life. Besides that, it can be clearly seen that the temperature
changes of the water system lag behind the refrigerant temperature, and
Where, ηe is electrical efficiency, %. P is the power generated by
the temperature difference is always maintained at about 5.5 ◦ C.
photovoltaic cells, W. APV is PV area, m2.
Fig. 11 shows the pressure changing curves inlet and outlet. The
The comprehensive performance of PV/T façade system is
flows of water and refrigerant are displayed in Fig. 12. Compared with
ηs =
ηe
+ ηth (5) the flow of refrigerant, the water flow is stable with a maximum value of
ηpower 0.87 m3/h and a minimum value of 0.84 m3/h. The flow change of the
work quality is random because the process of gasification occasionally
Where, ηs is the comprehensive performance of the PV/T façade system, occurs in the pipeline, which causes the flow of the work mass to fluc
%. ηpower is the generation efficiency of conventional thermal power, the tuate greatly.
value of 0.38. In order to evaluate the performance of the improved curtain wall
PV/T system, this paper analyzes the data of September 29, with a
maximum temperature of 30.6 ◦ Cduring the test period, an average
4.2. Result analysis
temperature of 29.0 ◦ C, a maximum wind speed of 2.3 m/s, and an
average wind speed of 0.4 m/s; west facade maximum radiation in
The raw monitoring data downloaded from the monitoring system
tensity 752.15 W/m2, average radiation intensity 562 W/m2; heat
can be processed and analyzed to produce more information that can be
storage tank volume of 150 L, and initial water temperature of 23 ◦ C.
easily understandable by researchers, and the information is represented
Fig. 13 is the PV/T façade system photoelectric, optical heat and total
in graphs as shown in Fig. 9 – Fig. 12.
efficiency change curve, the average comprehensive efficiency of the
The outdoor meteorological parameters during the experimental
system is 42%, the average optical heat conversion efficiency is 20%, the
period including ambient temperature, solar radiation intensity are
average photoelectric conversion efficiency is 8%. During the experi
presented in Fig. 9. During the week of the experiment (Sep.24-Sep.30),
mental test, the comprehensive efficiency of the system is consistent
the weather was sunny, with a maximum temperature of 30.6 ◦ C during
with the change trend of the optical heat conversion efficiency, and the
the day, a minimum temperature of 22.2 ◦ C in the night with an average
efficiency of photoelectric conversion is maintained at about 8%. The
temperature of 25.26 ◦ C. The maximum solar irradiance is 1188 W/m2
photoelectric, optical heat and comprehensive efficiency of the system
on Sept.24 with an average solar irradiance of 732 W/m2.
from 12:00 to 16:00 is maintained at a high value, and after 16:00 due to
Fig. 10 describes a view of all the temperatures monitored in the
the rapid reduction of solar radiation intensity, the system photoelectric,
system. In Fig. 10 (a), the changing trend of temperatures on the surface
optical heat and the comprehensive efficiency of the reduction is faster.
of the PV/T plant is consistent with the trend of solar irradiance.
As shown in Fig. 14, the maximum value of COP is 7.6, which appears in
Furthermore, the temperatures of T1 and T2 at the bottom of the PV/T
the initial stage of the experiment. The system may be unstable at the
plant are significantly lower than that of the remaining 6 monitoring
beginning of operation, so it deviates far from the mean value. During
points on the surface. The reason for this phenomenon is that the
the whole experiment, the average value of COP was 4, and the change
trend of COP was basically synchronized with the solar radiation
intensity.
5. Conclusion
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