SOLAR TRACKING SYSTEM IN DUAL AXIS USING LDR AND ANALYSIS OF REAL TIME

DATA USING GOOGLE FIREBASE

Review Presentation – 1
By
Team Josh

Under the Guidance of

Dr. Vishnu Srinivasa Murthy Y

School of Computer Science and Engineering

Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT),
Vellore, Tamil Nadu – 632 014.
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Team details
Sl. Regd. No. Student Name Role
No.
1. 17BEC0792 Anish Ganguly software
integration

2. 17BEC0524 Anshul Goyal Hardware

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Outline
Introduction
Motivation
Applications
Tools needed and purchased
Proposed Methodology (with Diagram)
Current Status
Timeline
Conclusions
References
Individual Contributions

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Introduction
The main objective of this project is to maximize
the energy production by solar photovoltaic
systems throughout the year.
Another goal is to estimate the increase in
efficiency of the system by adding a solar tracking
system and to find out how much time will it take
to recover the additional investment (for solar
tracking)
Prediction of cloudy or sunny weather.

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Motivation
Promoting the importance of Renewable Source
of Energy
Vellore is a very hot region with a lot of Sunlight
Conservation of conventional sources of energy

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Applications
 When done on a large scale, this will increase the
energy conversion efficiency drastically as there will be
very few sensors but large panels.
The voltage output of the panel is monitored on
cloud platform which can check if the weather is cloudy
or not.
Anywhere where conventional solar panels are used.
Its application is in energy sector where the effective
power output can be increased drastically.

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 Literature Review
REF. Approach Remarks Accuracy

1. Solar panels Photovoltaic solar panels absorb sunlight as a 15-20

source of energy to generate direct
current electricity.

2. Arduino To convert the analog data to digital data for the 100
Raspberry pi
3. Raspberry Pi To send the data collected from sensors to Firebase 100

4. Python GUI To Graphically represent the data collected from 100

firebase after its processing

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Proposed Methodology

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Any Novelty in your work?
Rotating solar panels in dual axis according to
direction of sunlight.
Prediction of cloudy or sunny weather according
to sensor data.
Maximizing solar panel efficiency.
Sending and receiving data from Cloud.

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Tools used and needed

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Current status of the project
 gathering of components
Setting up firebase

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 Timeline
Sl. Task AUG SEP OCT Nov
No. 10- 20- 1- 11- 21- 1- 11- 21- 1-
20 31 10 20 30 10 20 31 10
1 Problem Identification √
2 Architecture √
3 Implementation √
4 Developing and IoT √
5 Collecting the Data √
6 Data Analysis √
7 Demonstration √
8 Paper Draft √
9 Paper Writing and Publishing √ √ √

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Conclusions
Solar efficiency is more in our case than in
conventional solar panels
Weather prediction(sunny or cloudy) based
sensor values.

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 References
A. https://www.hackster.io/varuldcube100/send-sensor-data-to-firebase-real-time-
database-4d6b83

A. K. Suria and R. M. Idris, “Dual-Axis Solar Tracker Based On Predictive Control

Algorithms,” in 2015 IEEE Conference on Energy Conversion (CENCON), 2015, pp. 238–
243.
B. A. S. Petrusev, V. M. Rulevskiy, S. Y. Zh, and L. D. Yu, “Solar Tracker with Active
Orientation,” in 2015 IEEE Conference on Energy Conversion (CENCON), 2016, pp. 2–5.
C. A. Gontean, “Hybrid-loop Controlled Solar Tracker for Hybrid Solar Energy Harvester,” in
2017 25th Telecommunication Forum (TELFOR), 2017.
D. D. Artanto, “Design of a GPS-Based Solar Tracker System for a Vertical Solar Still,” in
2016 International Conference on Smart Green Technology in Electrical and Information
Systems (ICSGTEIS), 2016, no. October, pp. 6–8.
E. K. Williams and A. Qouneh, “Internet of Things: Solar Array Tracker,” 2017, pp. 1057–
1060.

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Contributions
Sl. Regd. No. Student Name % of
No. contribution
1. 17BEC0792 Anish Ganguly 50

2. 17BEC0524 Anshul Goyal 50

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 Thank You

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