Automatic Weather Station with Sun Tracker Energy Center, KNUST/African Grid Solar Project Kumasi, Ghana

Results and Benefits

Inclement weather and dust can reduce a Photovoltaic (PV) system’s capacity to absorb solar energy. This station provides weather and dust data which will help the user understand the impact of dust on solar energy.

This project required that data be transmitted to two core parties. With SUTRON’s XLite 9210 Datalogger, we were able to transmit data to both parties at the same time thus providing reliable on demand and real-time data.

SUTRON’s XConnect Data Acquisition Software was supplied and installed on servers at two separate locations.

Data from the Automatic Weather and Dust Monitoring Station is transmitted via GPRS to both of these servers, making the data available to the user for further analysis and processing.