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.