Smart solar panels: In-situ monitoring of photovoltaic panels based on wired and wireless sensor networks

Energy Procedia

Volumn 36, Issue , 2013, Pages 535-545

  Papageorgas, P ^a   Piromalis, D ^b   Antonakoglou, K ^a   Vokas, G ^a   Tseles, D ^b   Arvanitis, K G ^c  

^a Technological and Education Institute of Piraeus   (Greece)

^b Technological and Educational Institute of Piraeus   (Greece)

^c AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

AMI; Distributed data acquisition; Internet of things; LIN; Photovoltaic systems; Smart grid; Wireless sensors networks; Zigbee

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897493357     PISSN: 18766102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2013.07.062     Document Type: Conference Paper

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