Energy crisis is one of the major problems that the world faces today. The energy crisis can be reduced to a certain extent by properly monitoring our energy consumption and avoiding energy wastage. The energy meters are connected to the micro controller through an optocoupler. The optocoupler sensor gives an interrupt each time the meter LED ashes to the programmed PIC controller and PIC microcontroller process this data to the raspberry pi  module then raspberry pi module send this data to the thingspeak cloud. ThingSpeak is an open-source Internet of Things (IoT) application and API to store and retrieve data from things using the HTTP protocol over the Internet or via a Local Area Network. This IoT device could measure the SOLAR parameters. It continuously monitors the data and updates them to an IoT platform. We can increase the monitoring techniques by making use of advanced technology. In this project we are making use of technology to sense solar energy efficiency so that efficient services can be provided to the solar systems. . The status of the project is display on LCD. This design eliminates the human involvement in electricity maintenance. The project makes a use of PIC Microcontroller, raspberry pi zero w processor and it has inbuilt Wi-Fi which is monitor the energy consumption in remote location. The SD card is a key part of the Raspberry Pi; it provides the initial storage for the Operating System and files.  

Features:

 

• Consumer can monitor their energy consumption like current, wattage, KWH in thing speak cloud along with date and time.
• Monitoring solar reading likes voltage, wattage in thing speak cloud so user can check from anywhere on the globe.
• Visible alerts using LCD display.
• Using PIC Microcontroller for analog to serial converter.
• Using RASPBERRY pi zero W to upload the data into the thing speak cloud.
• To achieve this task using PIC microcontroller and raspberry pi zero.

  The project provides the following learning’s:  

1. KWH calculations.
2. Energy meter interfacing techniques to microcontroller.
3. Thingspeak technology.
4. Raspberry pi zero processor.

  The major building blocks of this project are:

• Power supply
• Energy Meter
• Optocouplers
• Solar panel.
• LCD display.
• Raspberry pi.
• PIC Microcontroller.
• Crystal oscillator.
• Reset button.
• LED indicator.

     

Software’s used:

   

• PIC C compiler to write the program.
• Pickit2 programmer to dump the code into the microcontroller.
• Linux OS for Raspberry pi zero.
• Express SCH for circuit diagram.

 

Regulated Power Supply:

 

Block Diagram:

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