Single Axis Solar Tracking System Using Arduino

Conclusions an arduino solar tracker was designed and constructed in the current work.

Single axis solar tracking system using arduino.

Generally solar energy is the technology to get useful energy from sunlight. Let us design a solar tracker using two servo motors a light sensor consisting of four ldrs and arduino uno board. A single axis solar tracker improves solar output by around 25 and a dual axis tracker by around 40 according to this article on altestore. This solar tracker control system is designed to take light measurements from the east and west left and right side of the solar panel and determine which way to move the panel to point it directly at.

In this article we are going to make a sun tracking solar panel using arduino in which we will use two ldrs light dependent resistor to sense the light and a servo motor to automatically rotate the solar panel in the direction of the sun light advantage of this project is that solar panel will always follow the sun light will always face towards the sun to get charge all the time and can. This solar tracker control system is designed to take light measurements from the east and west left and right side of the solar panel and determine which way to move the panel to point it directly at. The solar tracker is a proven single axis tracking technology that has been custom designed to integrate with solar modules and reduce system costs. Index terms solar tracker ar duino atmega 328 ldr single axis energy storage system.

This project aims to develop dual axis solar tracker with iot monitoring system using arduino. Two ldr s light dependent resistor are also connected to analog pins of the arduino. Arduino solar tracker working. 2 elagib et al.

A single axis solar tracker improves solar output by around 25 and a dual axis tracker by around 40 according to this article on altestore. 10 proposed a microcontroller based method for solar. In modern solar tracking systems the solar panels are fixed on a structure that moves according to the position of the sun. Research and statistical analysis that solar tracking system with single axis freedom can increase energy output by approximately 20 further mechanical enhancement can be done to the prototype to implement dual axis tracking.

A similar approach was used in 9 however using a single axis system reduced the efficiency of the proposed system. In this project an arduino nano is used which works as a controlling unit.