Development of a monitoring system for a PV solar plant

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 47, Issue 15-16, 2006, Pages 2329-2336

  Forero, N ^a   Hernandez J ^b   Gordillo, G ^b  

^a Universidad Distrital   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Automatic data acquisition system; I O modular devices; LabVIEW; Solar plant; Virtual instrumentation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; CONDITION MONITORING; DATA ACQUISITION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

AUTOMATIC DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM; I/O MODULAR DEVICES; LABVIEW; SOLAR PLANTS; VIRTUAL INSTRUMENTATION;

SOLAR POWER PLANTS;

EID: 33646392491     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2005.11.012     Document Type: Article

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