Solar streetlight remote monitoring system using WASPMOTE wireless sensor network module (WSN) for system efficiency enhancement

This present paper indicates the investigation of existing solar street light performances by adding remote monitoring components to the system using WASPMOTE V1.1 wireless sensor network module for gathering information regarding to solar activities, battery and load performances. In this investigation, the voltage of battery storage is evaluated to initiate the demonstration of the remote monitoring system setup. A solar street light system has been setup by duplicating the real implementation of solar street light system using solar panel with power 120 watt, 12V lead acid battery with 100Ah energy capacity and 12V/60W LED streetlight lantern. In this setup, Phocos CML 10-2 10A solar charger controller is used integrated with WASPMOTE V1.1 WSN module to monitor the battery storage voltage and transmitted to monitoring computer using Zigbee and GSM protocol attached with WASPMOTE V1.1 module. The collective data were analysed using MATLAB software to be concluded by determining system compatibility for betterment and enhancement.