• Client Name

Desgin and Implementation Of IoT in

Solar Energy Harvesting
2 Index

1. Objective Of The Presentation

2. Brief Overview Of Embitel

3. IoT in Solar Energy Harvesting

I. Types of Solar Energy Harvesting Systems

II. Business Case

III. Components Of The System

• Tracker Controller

• Master Controller/Gateway

• Cloud Application

• Front End – Web & Mobile

4. Putting All Together

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3 Objective Of The Presentation

• Overview of Solar Energy Harvesting

• Why IoT in Solar Energy Harvesting?

• Components of IoT in Solar Energy Harvesting

• Implementation Overview

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Embitel Technologies
5 Corporate Overview
• Strong business roots & legacy

• The beginning 2006 start of the operations in India

2008 start of the operations in Germany
2014 start of the operations in the USA

• People power 450+

Sigma Soft Tech Park
Bangalore, India

• Business footprints

• Headquarters in Bangalore, Offices in Pune & Ahemdabad

• Subsidiaries in Germany (Stuttgart), UAE and USA (Detroit)

• Success story Positive cash flow. Profitable every year since inception.

• Part of the VW/diconium group est. 1995, 1000+ people, 66 Mio. turnover
Römerkastell
Stuttgart, Germany
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6 Corporate Overview

• Our passion, recognized by the industry

• IGCC’s winner for an outstanding contribution by an “Indo-German Joint

Venture 2019”

• IEI Industry Excellence Award 2015 - Institution of Engineers (India)

• We are a CMMI Level 3, ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 27001:2013 certified

company!

• TISAX AL2 in Jan 2020

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7 Recent Awards
• Embitel has been chosen by IGCC as winner for an outstanding
contribution by an “Indo-German Joint Venture 2019”!

• Embitel received the prestigious Indo-German Chamber of

Commerce (IGCC) Award “Indo-German Joint Venture 2019” at
the 63rd AGM held on 2nd November 2019 in New Delhi.
• The event was graced by some high-profile guests including
the German chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel, Walter Linder, German
Ambassador in India and Siemens' CEO Joe Kaeser along with
over 400 dignitaries and guests.

• The award is curated by IGCC, an Indo-German Joint Venture

for the promotion of trade and industrial relations between
India and the Federal Republic of Germany. It was presented to
Embitel's CEO Sharad Bairathi for the company’s outstanding
contributions regarding export performance.
•
This award is certainly an important milestone in Embitel’s
journey to achieve business excellence at an international
level and emerge as a world-class organization.

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8 Types Of Solar Energy Harvesting Systems

• Fixed Structures

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9 Types Of Solar Energy Harvesting Systems

• Single Axis Controller System

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10 Types Of Solar Energy Harvesting Systems

• Dual Axis Controller

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11 Business Case For IoT implementation In Solar Energy Harvesting

• Pro-active maintenance to reduce down time

• Automated corrective actions

• Enable quick response time by providing actionable insights

• Simultaneous access to data to people at all levels

• Replace legacy systems with state of the art system

• Reduce cost of implementation and maintenance

• Efficient use of the land available

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12 Components Of The System

Master Controller

Gateway

Tracker
Controller

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13 Tracker Controller

Tracker Controller Actuator

• Motor Monitoring Using VFD or

DC drive
Communication Module
• Proximity Sensor
• Limit Switch
• Zigbee (Wireless)
• Ethernet
• RS485 Master Controller
Micro Controller
• Override command to turn PV
panel into Horizontal Direction
• Sun Position Algorithm with RTC module and • GPS coordinates
coin cell
• Motor driving protocol
• Wireless communication
Sensors
• Back tracking
• Inbuilt ADC channel for Sensing Feedback • Panel tilt angle Monitoring
• Temperature
Monitoring
• Remote Software Upgradation(FOTA)

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14 Tracker Controller – Block Diagram

RTC

Xbee Pro

BLDC Controller
Inclinometer

Status LEDs

Limit Switch Controller

RJ 45 Ethernet PHY

VFD
RS485

Temperature Sensor

Push Buttons

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15 Master Controller / Gateway

DC Input DDR
PMIC

Xbee Pro NAND Flash

RJ45 Ethernet PHY USB Host

SOC

2G/3G
Wind sensor Modem

UART Port for

UART getting data
GPS from SCB

Master Controller/Gateway

• Master Communication Module

• Wind sensing Hardware
• GSM, Ethernet and USB ports integration for internet connectivity
• GPS integration with Real time tracker location

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16 Plant Configuration

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17 Cloud & Web Application

Client & Year of Launch:

Features
• User Role based login and user
management
• Devices and Regions management
• Device configuration and monitoring
• Automated Reports generation
• User Alerts on device failure
• Live & Historical data graphs
• Administration dashboard
• Standard users’ dashboard
• Data Analytics

Tools and Technologies

• Backend: Python, Django
• Database: PostgreSQL
• Webserver: Nginx
• Communication: Web APIs, MQTT, SMTP
• Hardware Devices: Solar Panels, Master,
Tracker and drive controllers, Gateway
• Connectivity: 3G/LTE, Ethernet, RS485
Wireless
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• Protocols: MQTT, SSL, HTTP
18 [Solution Accelerator] Firmware Upgrade Over the Air (FOTA)

Features: Description
• Firmware Repository • One stop shop FOTA Cloud solution for multi-vendor and multi variant
• Firmware hosting IoT devices.
• Scalability:
• Firmware versioning  Horizontally scales as number of IoT devices connecting to FOTA
Flexible criteria for FOTA server increases.
• Region based  Kubernetes for scaling the services up or down based on load.
• Model based  Firmware image hosting and download requests are served

• Variant based. independently by blob storage on Azure.

• Vendor based
• Firmware version based
Reporting and Analysis
• Count of devices in various stages
of FOTA work order.
• Completed vs In-progress FOTA
work orders’ summary.
Detection of duplicate FOTA requests

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19 [Solution Accelerator] Firmware Upgrade Over the Air (FOTA)

Azure Services: Architecture

• Azure virtual machine Over all architecture of FOTA application

• Client app (React Js) hosting

• Client server (Django) hosting
• Azure virtual machine scale set
• FOTA Server hosting
• Azure BLOB Storage
• Hosting firmware in azure blob
storage.
• Azure PostgreSQL
• Storing structure data
• Azure Cosmos DB
• Storing unstructured data

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20 Putting All Components Together

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-gbk-TgDlw

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21 Solution for Battery Monitoring & Predictive Maintenance

Client & Year of Launch: Description

• Tier-I supplier of power electronics equipment & UPS, required an IoT solution for data
Features collection and battery monitoring. The collected data is used to track the rate of
• Data aggregator and storage system to battery discharge and predictive maintenance.
store data either locally on device or on
external server Tools & Technology
• Industrial grade network of sensors • Hardware: TI Industrial Microcontroller, TIVA series
connected to the local monitoring unit
• OS: FreeRTOS
over a wireless LAN (back-up Ethernet
• Interface: Analog IO, DIO, I2S, SPI, RS485
also designed)
• Sensor modules collect voltage and • Connectivity: Wi-Fi, Ethernet
temperature from installed batteries of • Wireless Protocols: Wi-Fi
the UPS • Protocols: MQTT, Modbus Serial and Modbus TCP
• The system has been designed to
calculate the string current.
Thus, enabling the battery monitoring
and data analytics software to
isolate the weakening batteries and
notify the local administrator
• Designed solution also helps address
load balance challenges during the
charge and discharge cycles

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22 Thank you!

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