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Renewable energy smart sensing system monitoring for Off-Grid vulnerable community in Colombia

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The implementation of renewable energy is a necessity nowadays and like any other technology involves challenges and opportunities to achieve. In the Enhancing Aquatic Renewable Energy project one of the main objectives is the design of a smart grid to control the power grid, but to understand the behavior of the grid and the actors (generators and consumers) a smart sensing system monitoring must be implemented in the initial phase of the project. In this article we propose the design of a smart sensing system monitoring. The system is going to collect information and inform the status about electrical variables (Power, current, voltage, reactive energy, and power factor) and environment variables (Temperature, solar radiation, GPS, humidity, and atmospheric pressure) from an off-grid renewable energy system fit for a vulnerable community in Colombia. The system was created as web-app that allows multiplatform access and allows scalability for large numbers of generators and loads. Finally, the system offers flexibility to use sensors or hardware to measure the variables since it only reads the information on the data base.