Development of Miniature Wind-Solar Hybrid Power Generating System and Monitoring of Parameters with NI USB-6009 DAQ

Abstract: Renewable energy technologies vary from the well-established, such as hydropower and emerging wind-solar hybrid system. Earlier complicated and efficient systems had difficulty in measuring data variables due to non-availability of an efficient tool for acquiring and manipulating data. LabVIEW™ provides the flexibility of integration of data acquisition software/hardware with the tools to capture, view and process controls, instrumentation and power system data both in academia and industry. Our project aims at creating a LabVIEW™ based real-time data acquisition and instrumentation of a “Miniature Wind-Solar Hybrid Power Generating System”. We used NI USB 6009 DAQ for the data acquisition for the system variables such as wind energy, solar energy, and tracking of solar radiations.

Keywords: Wind Energy, Solar Energy, Data acquisition, LabVIEWTM, NI USB 6009 DAQ