Fig 1.
Solar-powered home system: Conceptual configuration.
(a) Traditional AC-based, (b) DC-based, and (c) Proposed DC-based systems.
Table 1.
Comparison between ZigBee and Wi-Fi technologies.
Fig 2.
The difference between the traditional and the proposed system.
Fig 3.
The diagram of proposed system.
Fig 4.
The proposed circuit board.
Fig 5.
The proposed charge controller, one part of this system.
Fig 6.
Solar-battery controller control proposed circuit with the energy sensors.
Fig 7.
Wireless energy measurement and management module for the base station.
Fig 8.
Frame structure of active API mode.
Table 2.
Parameter configurations of the remote and base modules.
Fig 9.
The 2 pin connection of the base Xbee and PC through transceiver.
Fig 10.
The proposed system diagram.
Fig 11.
Proposed GUI for this work.
Fig 12.
Flowchart of MATLAB GUI decoding.
Fig 13.
The variation of the values of all the energy consumption parameters.
Table 3.
Research challenges.
Fig 14.
A four test signal received by the base station node that sent from the remote node wirelessly.
Fig 15.
The measurement process for the currents and voltages of the proposed prototype.
Fig 16.
Proposed prototype performance by surge load current versus time.
Fig 17.
One and half hour period, experimental power consumption and temperature measurements from DC-bus supply on a 1 HP air-conditioner.