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• TITLE: A Continuous Health Monitoring System for Photovoltaic Array Using Arduino Microcontroller

  AUTHORS: P. Pounraj, D. Prince Winston, S. Cynthia Christabel, R. Ramaraj

  KEYWORDS: Photovoltaic (PV) Array, Health Monitoring, Fault, Arduino Microcontroller

  JOURNAL NAME: Circuits and Systems, Vol.7 No.11, September 7, 2016

  ABSTRACT: In this paper new technique is developed to monitor the health status of the PV panels in the array. For finding the health status short circuit current is measured continuously over a fixed time period. This technique can classify the health status into four categories such as Healthy, Low Fault, Medium Fault and High Fault. By this classification faulty operation can be rectified and power generation may be improved. In case of high faults, PV panels can be protected. The cost requirement for the implementation is very low. The proposed technique is implemented in MATLAB Simulation and hardware. The array considered in this paper is 2× 2 Series Parallel.