Dual Axis Solar Tracking System

The main goal of this project is to design a very precise solar tracker. The project is divided into two parts; hardware and software. Hardware part generally composed of solar panel, two-DC motors with gearbox, LDR sensor module and electronic circuit. Software part represents the thinking behavior

Project Title

Dual Axis Solar Tracking System

Project Area of Specialization

Artificial Intelligence

Project Summary

The main goal of this project is to design a very precise solar tracker. The project is divided into two parts; hardware and software. Hardware part generally composed of solar panel, two-DC motors with gearbox, LDR sensor module and electronic circuit. Software part represents the thinking behavior of the system, that is how the system acting under several weather conditions. In this work sensing of the sun position carried out in two stages primary and secondary. Primary stage or indirect sensing performed via sun-earth relationship as a coarse adjustment and second stage or direct sensing performed via set of LDR sensors as output tuning to trims the azimuth and altitude angles. If the weather is cloudy or dusty, the tracking system uses primary stage or sun-earth geometrical relationships only to identify the location of the sun; so the system tracks the position of the sun regardless the weather condition. The energy extracted from photovoltaic (PV) or any solar collector depends on solar irradiance. For maximum extraction of energy from the sun, the solar collector panel should always be normal to the incident radiation Solar trackers moves the solar collector to follow the sun path and keeps the orientation of the solar collector at an optimal tilt angle. A solar tracking system improves substantially the energy efficiency of photovoltaic (PV) panels. In this paper, an automatic dual-axis solar tracking system is designed and developed using Light Dependent Resistor (LDR) and DC motors on a mechanical structure with gear arrangement. Two-axis solar tracking (azimuth angle as well as altitude angle) is implemented through the Arduino UNO controller based on Sun-Earth Geometry. The results indicated that the automatic solar tracking system is more reliable and efficient than a fixed one.

The whole work involves reading different sensor values and then comparing them digitally to determine the exact position of the sun in an east-west direction. Again the system is also given some predefined values based on the sun’s geographical location in the north-south direction. Overall the entire system can intelligently track the sun’s movement both on the horizontal and vertical axis. In order to simplify the design and implementation process, the whole system is divided into two parts.

Project Objectives

• The main objective of the dual-axis tracker is to follow the position of the sun for maximum energy efficiency.
• Given that the sun moves at 15 degrees per hour and assuming,
• The tracker would make position changes every .01 seconds,
• The change in angular velocity is calculated.

The analysis can be found on Appendix A2, while the information can be referenced in Appendix B5.

Project Implementation Method

In this solar tracking system, LDRs (Light Dependent Resistor) as known as Photo resistors plays a major role [4] These are sensitive to light, so these are used in Light or Dark detector circuit. Two LDRs are installed and the stepper motor used to move towards solar power. The stepper motor moves towards the LDR, which the resistance to be high i.e. towards the LDR on which the light is falling, and will continue to obey the sun. If both the LDRs had the same amount of light falling, the stepper would not rotate. This method is done by using Arduino microcontroller to interface with other components.

Firstly, our project is based on hardware. Our Product provides the easiest way to Track a 360 Degree solution of tracking sun.

After reaching that particular.

The Motion Sensors will capture the Sun Light of the 360 Degree plate and then raspberry pi 4 which is a mini-computer. Tracking All The motions Which possibly Apply on Solar Plates to track Sun   light, raspberry pi controls all the motion in this system, servo motor will be ejected in this system, who’s control plates motion or 360 degree solution, motion sensors and whether sensor’s control’s all the whether activity, detecting whether light, good or bad light. Servo motor controller will be control the servo motor. Axels for rotating x-axis y-axis of solar plates.

Benefits of the Project

1. Private areas: malls, hotels, mosques, restaurant, big places

Direct benefits

•  Better solution for energy consumption.
• Can give 40% more electricity than a nonmoving solar panel
•  Special permits: 360 degree sun track solution.
• Higher degree of flexibility, allowing for a higher energy output on sunny days
• Higher degree of accuracy in directional pointing
•  Monitoring of maximum energy save from plates to battery.
• No need wapda electricity.

Indirect benefits:

• Dynamic pricing strategies based on occupancy.
• Open uses to new customers: All the residential.
• Improving customer experience.

Optimizing human resources to consumer habits.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

• Our application suggests using parking spots while looking around to find a spot to park a vehicle. Suppose a person parks his car in rewind in our registered places, when that person is again looking for parking in rewind our application recommends that where he last parked. For that feature, our application uses a Content-Based Recommendation System.
• Finding the nearest place to park a vehicle is a particular feature. Our application uses Google's map API for maps and uses AI searching algorithms like Dijkstra Algorithm to find the shortest path.
• When our user books a place for parking by their car number plate it stores that information and sends that particular parking system where our user parks.
• At that parking place, there is a proper automated parking system that scans the number plate of a vehicle and checks bookings. In this particular feature, we use Image processing to scan number plates for open or closed barriers. 
•  Dynamic pricing strategy according to the area according to rating.
•  When the user leaves the parking system again, scan the number plate and send a notification to the application which is on the user's phone.
• After that, the application shows the amount which the user should be paid.
• Users can pay online as well.

Final Deliverable of the Project

Hardware System

Core Industry

IT

Other Industries

Energy

Core Technology

Artificial Intelligence(AI)

Other Technologies

Clean Tech

Sustainable Development Goals

Affordable and Clean Energy

Required Resources

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