Smart Solar Tracking System (P-0247) (MFN 4728)

Abstract

The demand of renewable energy resources is increasing rapidly and to satisfy this hunger for energy there are several ways discovered so the people can benefit from it. Solar energy is one of the most important and vastly available source of energy and at no cost. This project is about the use of solar energy. This project involves a method that can give an efficient solution to the use of solar power. The project is based on an Arduino based dual-axis solar tracking system, which is built and tested and all the results are meeting the expectations. This project is about, to track the sun during the whole day. As it is an essential requirement for a solar panel to always face the sun in order to provide maximum efficiency and as we know that the motion of the sun is continuous throughout the day and it can be explained as maximum that the light source is 1.5 degree perpendicular. We can get maximum output power through the tracking, because it aligns the panel in front of sun. We will track the movement of sun according to the amount of light it transmits at a certain point during the course of the day by using sensors, along with the solar tracking there will be a continuous data acquisition according to which the voltage of the solar panel will be displayed at all time. The motion of the motors will be totally dependent upon the output voltage that is recorded.