Abstract
This paper reports on the design and implementation of a low-cost off-grid solar installation system that maximizes the energy production for any given day. Our proposed solution consists of (1) a double axis solar tracker with electric actuators controlled by an Arduino board, (2) an MPPT (Maximum Power Point Tracking) power controller, with a capacity of 20 A, remotely accessible from a smartphone with a dedicated Android application that uses a Bluetooth connection and (3) a remote data logging system that periodically stores the installation data to an online database server using a Wifi connection. The overall cost of the system is about $215 ($72 for the regular and $143 for the solar tracker).
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Sonko, P. M., Ngom, D., Ouesse, M., & Gueye, A. (2019). An Optimized, Low-Cost Off-grid Solar System: Design and Implementation. In Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST (Vol. 296, pp. 38–49). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34863-2_4
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