Continuous monitoring of the health status of PV modules is mandatory to maintain high efficiency and minimize power losses due to faults or failures. In this work, a low-cost embedded tracer is developed and optimized to measure the I-V curve in less than 0.2 s to minimize the duration of power generation interruption. The proposed tracer is validated with a commercial analyzer. The experimental data is used to validate the analytical model of the PV module. This model is based on the single diode electrical circuit's five parameters (Iph,Rs,Rsh,I0 and n) . It is combined with the Matlab-Simulink numerical model to set up the hybrid model that will be used as a reference for the diagnosis. This model is validated with a relative error of ...