Design and Implementation of Roof Top Solar Panel Cleaner Robot Using IoT

The energy yield of a solar panel can be severely impacted by partial shading. Shade caused by nearby static objects can hardly be avoided in installations such as building-applied or building-integrated photovoltaics. Smart reconfigurable photovoltaics (PV) panels are able to change their intra-module configuration to reduce this impact: small substrings can be rewired to be connected in a more optimal configuration. To achieve this, a reconfiguration switch needs to be designed. In this paper a switch for the optimization of module power by reconfiguration of all strings (SOMBRA), a smart switch, is presented. SOMBRA is a fully integrated, low-ohmic switch, designed for currents up to 10 A. It is fully floating up to 50 V, while still being able to communicate with a central unit as an inter-integrated circuit (I 2 C) slave. Two versions were realized, SOMBRA-LV10 for low voltages (LV) and a load current of 10 A, and SOMBRA-HV05 for high voltages (HV) and a load current of 5 A. Measurements proved these devices to be functional, measuring an on-resistance of 1.3 m Ω for SOMBRA-LV10 and 7.3 m Ω for SOMBRA-HV05. This paper will elaborate on the operation, design, and implementation of SOMRBA, as well as the first tests with a small reconfigurable PV module.

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Design and Implementation of Agrobot with Automatic Sun Tracking

International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology - Regular Issue ◽

10.35940/ijeat.f7969.129219 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 3708-3710

Keyword(s):

Moisture Content ◽

Weed Control ◽

Mobile Phones ◽

Solar Panel ◽

Soil Testing ◽

Design And Implementation ◽

Human Labor ◽

Future Demands ◽

Harvesting Stage ◽

Number Of Seeds

Advancement in recent technology introduces the agriculture robotics. These robots can be harvesting stage, pesticide spraying, weed control, automatic milking and many other applications. These robots can replace the human labor and improve the production rate. To meet up the future demands and to overcome the disadvantages of the traditional methods, a agrobot that can do seed sowing along with soil testing process with automatic sun tracking solar panel manner is proposed in this paper. The agrobot will move around various ground contours, digs the ground, sows the desired number of seeds and cover it with the soil. Then adequate content of water is poured in to the ground according the texture of ground. This agrobot also do the soil testing process and the results of solid testing process can be viewed in the mobile phones through GSM module. This paper gives the complete installation details of the agricultural robot. This proposed agrobot is able to sow the seed, monitors the soil fertility, moisture content along with the automatic sun tracking solar panel.

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Design and Implementation of Hybrid Solar Wind Energy Tower

International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering - Special Issue ◽

10.35940/ijitee.b1199.1292s419 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (2S4) ◽

pp. 556-558

Keyword(s):

Solar Wind ◽

Renewable Energy ◽

Solar Energy ◽

Wind Energy ◽

Output Power ◽

Hybrid System ◽

Solar Panel ◽

Monthly Average ◽

Design And Implementation ◽

Solar Wind Energy

The proposed method might be a possible key to the combination of high levels of radiation by solar energy and speed of the wind on a monthly average basis. Wind Energy Tower (WET) and Hybrid Solar (HS) is combined to form the HSWET system and the function of solar panel in parallel with wind turbines thereby acquiring a higher total of renewable energy values. It is essential to measure the output power and monitor it regularly. And also the design of HSWET was being paralleled with an prevailing solar hybrid system have made changes from a single solar panel to a tree like structure which includes for solar panel to get more output power than before and the results of the proposed Hybrid Solar and Wind Energy Tower system resulted in a greater efficiency.

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