Development of Continuous Solar Health Monitoring and Management System

Abstract

At present lots of attention has been given to the use of renewable energy resources as a prime power source in our society. The primary point of focus in advanced research is to improve the extraction of power from the solar panel, but one of the major problems of solar panel to extract maximum power in prolonged period. This paper is devoted to develop continuous solar panel health monitoring and management system in dusty areas, this is one of the major problem of panel protect from soiling which causes localized hotspots to develop in the panel and causes huge power loss. The other problem of solar panel to continuous monitoring of micro cracking which can develop due to thermal and mechanical stress in the solar panels. This system has been proposed here mitigates that problem and provides an effective solution.

Keywords: cleaning, micro cracking, soiling, solar panels, Arduino Microcontroller