SOLAR ENERGY OPTIMIZATION USING ARDUINO BASED MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKING SYSTEM

Now a day’s solar power is very helpful in our everyday life. This power is used in many ways such as homemade electrical appliances, vehicles, satellites and industries etc. The title of this project is “Solar Energy Optimization Using Arduino Based Maximum Power Tracking System”. This movement is achieved by installing a couple of servo motors with the solar panel that changes its direction according to the positioning of the sun. There are basically three major parts of this project, sensor, microcontroller and two servo motors. ATmega328 microcontrollers have been used for this purpose. It receives sensor output signal and controls servo motors according to the assigned program. One servo motor is used horizontally to move the panel upward and downward. The other is used vertically from left to right direction. As the solar panel is connected in servo motor so the position of solar panel is same to the servo motor. Since the maximum solar ray is fallen down on the solar panel module so that the maximum power output can be achieved