An Internet of Things to Maximum Power Point Tracking Approach of Solar PV Array
Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the emerging trends and has great potential to bring advances in electrical engineering and renewable energy. It is estimated that by 2020, IoT will be a $20 trillion industry. Hence, this paper proposes the method of in
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Abstract Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the emerging trends and has great potential to bring advances in electrical engineering and renewable energy. It is estimated that by 2020, IoT will be a $20 trillion industry. Hence, this paper proposes the method of incorporating IoT in solar energy and photovoltaic research at the laboratory level. The proposed method includes IoT’s divine application in (a) MPPT tracking; (b) partial shading; (c) security switch for turning ON Arduino’s serial monitor; and finally, (d) building up the direct communication between professor (sitting in the cabin) and the research scholar performing experiment (in the laboratory which is at some particular distance from the professor’s cabin). The whole setup is based on the newly developed Indian microcontroller-BOLT (An Internet of Things platform) launched on 21 February 2016. Keywords Internet of Things
Partial shading Maximum power point tracking
1 Introduction In accordance with the challenges like increasing population and standard of living, demand of energy is increasing drastically. Contemporary researches show that the population will increase up to 9 billion in 2040 with reference to 7 billion people living in the world today. Current scenario for fulfilling electricity demand of our people includes the use of fossil fuels extremely. Extreme use of fossil fuels is a H. Manghani J. Prasanth Ram N. Rajasekar (&) Solar Energy Research Cell, School of Electrical Engineering, VIT University, Vellore, India e-mail: [email protected] H. Manghani e-mail: [email protected] J. Prasanth Ram e-mail: [email protected] © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018 S. SenGupta et al. (eds.), Advances in Smart Grid and Renewable Energy, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 435, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4286-7_39
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threat in itself because of its slow rate of formation and threatening environmental hazards. The rate of formation of fossil fuels is very low with respect to their high consumption. Moreover, their excessive consumption results in an increase in the amount of carbon dioxide (and other harmful gases) which eventually get trapped in ocean and atmosphere leading to greenhouse effect and global warming [1, 2]. Going to the basic, we know that energy is neither created nor destroyed; it can only be transformed from one state to the other. And going even deeper, we know that fossil fuels are the compound which has converted, years of trapped solar energy into chemical energy. To conclude, sun is an ultimate source of energy. Therefore, for the safe future of our mother earth fulfilling our electricity demands from renewable energies like solar, wind (caused by temperature differences between different earth’s regions) can mitigate the current challenges of electrical engineering [3]. The advancements which have been seen in electrical engineering and renewable energy over the past decades are superlative, for example, study of partial shading and maximum power point trackin
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