IoT-Based Services Platform for the Monitoring and Control of a Photovoltaic (PV) Generation System Integrated With Vegetation

A Green Building Integrated Photovoltaics (GRIPV) system consists of the integration of PV panels and vegetation on terraces of buildings, which seeks to favor the generation of electric energy and passive air conditioning. Since it is an emerging green technology in the sustainable construction market worldwide, it is necessary to carry out intensive studies on its performance in the tropical zone, which entails the monitoring of electric and thermal variables of GRIPV and micro -climatic in place. However, the diversity of data sources (energy meters, dataloggers, sensors, web-services, etc.) makes the GRIPV study expensive and ineffective. For this reason, this document presents considerations for the design of an IoT-based service platform for real-time remote monitoring and control of a GRIPV system, which encompasses historical and real-time performance analysis of these systems and the online display.