SOLAR ENERGY OPTIMIZATION USING ARDUINO BASED MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKING SYSTEM

SOLAR  ENERGY OPTIMIZATION  USING  ARDUINO  BASED  MAXIMUM  POWER POINT TRACKING SYSTEM

B V V Anjaneyulu¹, B. Prasanna Kumar², D Dushyant², K Likitha² ,A Kusuma Kumar²

¹Assistant Professor,Dadi Institute of Engineering & Technology, Anakapalle

²Student,Dadi Institute of Engineering & Technology, Anakapalle

Abstract: 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

 Keywords: Energy consumption, ARDUINO, Microcontroller,seromotor,solorpanel,powersupply.