Design and implementation of a wind turbine parameter measurement, data logging and telemetry unit

Wind power potential varies from region to region due to the both topographic and climatic conditions. Hence, measurement of wind parameters accurately becomes very important. In this thesis, wind data measurement, logging and telemetry unit using arduino mega 2560 microcontroller has been designed and developed. From Atmel family arduino mega 2560 microcontroller based data logging unit has been developed in order to measure wind parameters of a region or a small scale wind turbine. This unit measures and stores wind parameters at specific time intervals into a sd card with time and date using real time clock. Furthermore, unit can monitor wind parameters by connecting to the personal computer using USB through serial port via written interface monitoring program that is coded with Microsoft Visual Studio.Net C# platform. In addition to this, unit can transmit data wirelessly to a remote site using radio frequency telemetry module. The developed unit can be used to analysis wind energy potential of any region. In this way, it can be make a decision that wind power potential is enough or not for the proposed site. Moreover, a small scale wind turbine can be controlled using wind speed, phase current and phase voltage information during operation with the help of this study and if needed, it can be interfered to operate safely.