Sun tracking solar panel using Arduino

Bustling civilization is the vein through which modern civilization is operated. Energy day by day is put to use at its best to fulfil the desires and ambition of the peoples at large. Each and every corner of our life is caged with various layers of impediment and in this response, en

Project Title

Sun tracking solar panel using Arduino

Project Area of Specialization

Artificial Intelligence

Project Summary

Bustling civilization is the vein through which modern civilization is operated. Energy day by day

is put to use at its best to fulfil the desires and ambition of the peoples at large. Each and every

corner of our life is caged with various layers of impediment and in this response, energy is

becoming an indispensable factor. Therefore, the source of energy needs to be endless/ perpetual

in order to carry this colossal population ahead. Human beings being evolutionary in nature are

perhaps the best ever creation of nature is always in the race of envisaging the probable and

available comforts and benefits in every possible angle in this perilous world. The evidential matrix

manifests that in a dichotomy of various opinions what options best expedite the scarcity of energy

in an immensely heterogeneous society like ours. Our motto is to endeavour in forwarding such

noble goal of energy conservation.

Taking a look at the present scenario it is evident that conventional sources of energy such as coal,

natural gas, oil, etc. are at the edge of extinction. Being in mortal combat with time itself to fulfil

every demand for energy the demand for these resources for energy has escalated to its zenith. The

conventional use of energies due to the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas, the

whole environment is getting polluted. The present project, therefore, is orchestrated with

components like LDR module, DC Motor, Photovoltaic array etc. according to which while the

functioning of, unlike other use of the conventional energies, would not emit any pollution and in

turn act as a reservoir of energy taken from the Sun itself. As adumbrated no other energy is more

abundant than solar energy as per as its availability and freeness are concerned, utilization of

which, compounded with rest of the fact of its conversion into electrical energy. Historically if

counted, in the year 1881 for the first time ever solar panel was invented. Later on, all through the

hands of Russell Ohl in the year, 1941 concept of the solar cell was conceived and subsequently

workability of a solar panel has also advanced in comparison with the earlier span. Though it is

improbable still it is not impossible as per as tracking of the mother energy is concerned in

furtherance to which attempt has been taken through this project to confine every drop of energy

from being left out. 

Project Objectives

Today in the world of rampant productivity, energy is the fundamental source upon which the 
whole civilization is based upon. As it is said that energy can neither be created nor be destroyed 
and, in that response, it can be signified that it can somehow be stored. The attempt towards making 
such goal substantiated, this project has been endeavoured towards unravelling the path of such 
objectivity. It is quite natural that constant utilisation of energies somehow opens the door of 
scarcity as per as earthly sources are concerned. Sun, in the stand of which, the tallest source, 
spiked over for age’s right from the origin of the whole universe, through which life has been 
conceived, is the basic and the mother source of all the energies. Considering the very fundamental 
from the viewpoint of storing such energy, the project has been unravelled. Energies other than 
from the Sun, are the process from which such are been produced through the burning of various 
materials, involving emission of a large amount of pollution, causing the environment and the 
atmosphere sick day by day. Fastness and smartness of the world’s current behavioural visibility, 
where easy access of every sphere of life is in need of the acute comfortability, every day is a new 
challenge of hatching something new and unique which makes an energy to be the ultimatum 
source behind all the hard work exists. In that regards it would be worthier to reveal that 
commercialisation has boomed its wings to such an extent in the need of money and power that
we are somehow present in the pool of acute ignorance of the world’s resources scarcity, in 
consequence of which the whole world is wounded. Healing the world is the basis cultivation with 
which the hour clock is calling and this project presents the eye, therefore, to open the corridors of 
reducing the amount of pollution in storing of energy culled out from the Sun and also to make the 
pace of advancement revved around.

Project Implementation Method

The project called “Automatic Solar Tracking System” is produced through installation of the
various nitty-gritty such as solar panel which provides 12 volts as output, an NodeMcu as MCU, 
a motor driver – with IC L293D, two LDR sensor module, a 10 r.p.m. simple DC motor, a current 
sensor and a 9 V battery.
Construction of the said project is being built out of the wooden base installed at the ground of it, 
affixed with the iron rods on both the sides in a cross-shaped manner connected with a hollow 
cylindrical rod from both the sides and the DC motor is clinging at one edge of the hollow rod.
Three-fold sections into which the circuit of the solar tracking system is divided. The input stage 
has two LDR module that is so arranged to form a voltage divider circuit, the microcontroller is 
programmed through the software named Arduino ide being decked up in the system and lastly 
the driving circuit that has the DC motor helps in rotating the solar panel. The motor driver is 
embraced with three terminals- two for motor input/ output respectively and the third one for power 
input. The terminal for motor input is connected to 2 of the 14digital input/output pins of Arduino 
UNO and subsequently, the motor output terminal is connected to the DC motor. The two LDR 
sensor modules are annexed to the scaffolding with NodeMcu analogue inputs. The light 
dependent resistors are then affixed along the length, on either side of the solar panel.

Benefits of the Project

The process of attaining solar energy is unsoiled.
• It is a renewable source of energy.
• The investment is done only during the installation of solar panels, the expenses of acquired 
solar energy after installation is little.
• Solar energy is a perennial source of energy.
• There is no adulteration is the process of acquiring solar energy.
• The yield rate is very high, using solar panels.
• It requires the least maintenance, once the setup is installed.
• Solar energy is very useful and can be easily drawn into applications in rural areas where 
the extraction of electricity is difficult.
• Solar energy does not create noises compared to the noises created by the machinery in the 
extraction of other natural resources.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

The problem which we faced after completing the solar tracking system was that it was 
not moving with the rays of sun. Our project was based on tracking system so to ensure the 
sunlight rays are falling perpendicularly on the solar panel to give the maximum solar energy, we 
have done several experiments. After three attempts we were able to design an automated 
system, an automated was set to get a constant output, which should be capable to constantly 
rotate the solar panel. Another problem that was faced was coding the arduino. For our solar 
tracker system to be functional very important step is to code the Arduino. Only after the coding 
of the arduino which is attached to the system, solar panel will act as solar tracker. For this 
purpose we will be installing arduino on the mobile phone which will be attached via USB. 
While programming we will make sure to set our board type to Uno.

Final Deliverable of the Project

Hardware System

Core Industry

Energy

Other Industries

Others

Core Technology

Artificial Intelligence(AI)

Other Technologies

Sustainable Development Goals

Climate Action

Required Resources

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