IPTEK, The Journal of Engineering, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2022 (eISSN: 2807-5064) 69 Design of Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine Simulator Using Smart Monitoring System Ahmad Fauzan Adziimaa 1 , Ilham Kurniawan 1 , Anida Oktavia Rachmadianti 1 Abstract ¾ Wind turbine shows the direct utilization of mechanical energy and occurs as follows: the wind that moves hitting the wing of the ferris wheel causes the ferris wheel to spin. The rotation of the ferris wheel causes the formation of mechanical energy, while the conversion of wind energy into electrical energy is as follows: the wind through the ferris wheel plants causes the ferris wheel to spin. The spin of the ferris wheel causes the generator to spin. Inside the wind, energy generator is converted into electrical energy. In the Final Task that did the design of this prototype, do a comparison between the horizontal axis wind turbine with variations in the number of blades, with blade variations totaling 3 and 5. So, there will be 2 wind turbines with different numbers of blades in one prototype. Comparisons are made to find out the performance carried out by the two wind turbines that aim as a learning medium in the Measurement Instrumentation Laboratory. This final task is divided into five stages tool design, tool characterization, tool validation, tool testing, and comparing tools. The process of designing tools that are divided into two methods, namely covering the formation of hardware and the formation of software. The graph data contained in the discussion shows the performance with the propeller amounting to 5 produces a higher current and voltage output and rpm on this prototype scale than the number of propellers 3, with the value for example at the acceleration of fan 5 with a wind speed of 3.9 m / s on the propeller amounting to 5 resulting in an average current value of 3.2 mA, a voltage of 1.98 V, and rotor rotation of 234 RPM. While at the number of propellers 3 with the same wind speed produces smaller current output, voltage and rpm, which is obtained an aage current of 2.3 mA, a voltage of 1.88 V, and rotor rotation of 243 RPM. Keywords ¾ Output performance comparison, Horizontal axis wind turbine, Blade variations I. INTRODUCTION 1 S currently the development of new renewable energy (EBT) refers to Presidential Decree No. 5 of 2006 on Energy Policy National. The Presidential Regulation mentions the contribution of NRE in the mix of national primary energy by 2025, especially for wind energy which is 5% [1]. Therefore, it is necessary to develop local wind turbines either by LAPAN, BPPT, universities high, or the general public. But the point of attention namely in the Indonesian environment is the wind speed that tends to be low in the range of 2.5 - 6 m/s and the magnitude of the fluctuation wind speed and direction. Therefore, it is necessary to develop wind turbines in order to optimize the existing wind speed in the Indonesian environment. Wind turbine design and development has become a topic that has attracted the attention of many researchers with the issue above. Currently, the wind turbine is horizontal axis wind turbine (HAWT) has been widely created, used or developed compared to the type of vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) because HAWT has a better efficiency value than VAWT in the use of wind in electrical energy [2]. The main principle of the energy produced by the wind is to change the electrical energy of the wind becomes the kinetic energy of the shaft. The amount of energy that can be transferred to the rotor depends on the density of air, area, and wind speed. Kinetic energy for a mass of wind moving with velocity v which will be converted into shaft energy. The wind is air (which moves caused by the rotation of the earth and also due to differences in surrounding air pressure. Wind moves from a place of pressure high air to low air pressure [3]. Wind energy is 1 Department of Instrumentation Engineering, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, Kampus ITS Sukolilo, Surabaya, 60111, Indonesia. ahmadfauzan.epits@gmail.com one of the renewable energy potentials that can make a significant contribution to energy demand electricity, especially in remote areas. Wind energy can be utilized into electrical energy by a wind turbine. The basic working principle of a wind turbine is to change the energy of the motion of wind into rotating energy on the wheel, then the rotation of the wheel is used to turn a generator, which will eventually produce electricity. This plant can convert wind energy into electricity using a wind turbine or windmill. System electricity generation using wind as an energy source is an alternative system that is growing rapidly, considering that Wind is one of the unlimited energies in nature. HAWT is a turbine whose main shaft rotates according to the direction wind. For the rotor to rotate properly, the wind direction must be parallel with the turbine shaft and perpendicular to the direction of rotation of the rotor. Usually, this type of turbine has an airfoil- shaped blade like the shape of the wing on an airplane. In general, the more blades, the higher the turbine rotation [4]. The comparison of the number of blades in the Final Task this time is to compare the number of blades 3 and blade 5. By perfecting previous research whose results are still confused due to different results. The more blades, the lower the power generated and vice versa, this includes the solidity effect. Each blade produces different generator power. The number of blades 3 produces greater power with an average value of generator power of 0.12446 Watts and a power utilization effectiveness of 0.014. For the number of blades, 5 produces a generator power of 0.07728 and utilization effectiveness of 0.0087. So, the more blade numbers the greater the bland force produced [5]. While in other studies the number of blades 5 gives a A