IoT System for Thermographic Data Acquisition of Photovoltaic Installations

Leonardo Cardinale-Villalobos; Luis Antonio Solís-García; Luis Alonso Araya-Solano

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-28454-0_8

IoT System for Thermographic Data Acquisition of Photovoltaic Installations

Costa Rica Institute of Technology

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Abstract

Infrared thermography (IRT) has been widely used to diagnose photovoltaic installations, however, its effectiveness needs to be improved to contribute to greater energy efficiency in Smart Cities. This research shows a solution that creates a database (DB) of IRT information, through an IoT solution that allows the process to be automated and accessed remotely. The functionality and accuracy of the system was validated in a real PV plant through an experiment inducing conditions that generate hot spots obtaining a temperature measurement error of less than 4 ^∘ C. During the investigation, 1.777 thermograms were generated and the ability to detect hot spots due to soiling, partial shading and short circuits in the module was verified. The DB generated by this solution will be used to establish better fault detection criteria for IRT, which is of high interest to thermographers and will benefit the users of distributed PV installations in Smart Cities around the world.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Smart Cities - 5th Ibero-American Congress, ICSC-CITIES 2022, Revised Selected Papers
Editors	Sergio Nesmachnow, Luis Hernández Callejo
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	110-122
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Print)	9783031284533
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28454-0_8
State	Published - 2023
Event	5th Ibero-American Congress on Smart Cities, ICSC-Cities 2022 - Cuenca, Ecuador Duration: 28 Nov 2022 → 30 Nov 2022

Publication series

Name	Communications in Computer and Information Science
Volume	1706 CCIS
ISSN (Print)	1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)	1865-0937

Conference

Conference	5th Ibero-American Congress on Smart Cities, ICSC-Cities 2022
Country/Territory	Ecuador
City	Cuenca
Period	28/11/22 → 30/11/22

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

Keywords

Image Acquisition Systems
Infrared Thermography
IoT Applications
Photovoltaic

Access to Document

10.1007/978-3-031-28454-0_8

Cite this

Cardinale-Villalobos, L., Solís-García, L. A., & Araya-Solano, L. A. (2023). IoT System for Thermographic Data Acquisition of Photovoltaic Installations. In S. Nesmachnow, & L. Hernández Callejo (Eds.), Smart Cities - 5th Ibero-American Congress, ICSC-CITIES 2022, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 110-122). (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 1706 CCIS). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28454-0_8

Cardinale-Villalobos, Leonardo ; Solís-García, Luis Antonio ; Araya-Solano, Luis Alonso. / IoT System for Thermographic Data Acquisition of Photovoltaic Installations. Smart Cities - 5th Ibero-American Congress, ICSC-CITIES 2022, Revised Selected Papers. editor / Sergio Nesmachnow ; Luis Hernández Callejo. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023. pp. 110-122 (Communications in Computer and Information Science).

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Cardinale-Villalobos, L, Solís-García, LA & Araya-Solano, LA 2023, IoT System for Thermographic Data Acquisition of Photovoltaic Installations. in S Nesmachnow & L Hernández Callejo (eds), Smart Cities - 5th Ibero-American Congress, ICSC-CITIES 2022, Revised Selected Papers. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 1706 CCIS, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, pp. 110-122, 5th Ibero-American Congress on Smart Cities, ICSC-Cities 2022, Cuenca, Ecuador, 28/11/22. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28454-0_8

IoT System for Thermographic Data Acquisition of Photovoltaic Installations. / Cardinale-Villalobos, Leonardo; Solís-García, Luis Antonio; Araya-Solano, Luis Alonso.
Smart Cities - 5th Ibero-American Congress, ICSC-CITIES 2022, Revised Selected Papers. ed. / Sergio Nesmachnow; Luis Hernández Callejo. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023. p. 110-122 (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 1706 CCIS).

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Cardinale-Villalobos L, Solís-García LA, Araya-Solano LA. IoT System for Thermographic Data Acquisition of Photovoltaic Installations. In Nesmachnow S, Hernández Callejo L, editors, Smart Cities - 5th Ibero-American Congress, ICSC-CITIES 2022, Revised Selected Papers. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. 2023. p. 110-122. (Communications in Computer and Information Science). doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-28454-0_8