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Arduino Based Sun Tracking System

Nitesh Kumar, Md Israfil, Akshay Batti, Ajay Nagle

Abstract


The main objective of this project is to create an Arduino-compatible, extremely accurate solar tracker. The location of the sun was sensed in this work in two stages, primary and secondary. The sun-Earth relationship is used in the first stage of indirect sensing as a coarse adjustment, and a set of four LDR sensors is used in the second stage of direct sensing as output tuning to adjust the azimuth and altitude angles. The tracking system follows the position of the sun regardless of the weather since it only uses primary stage or sun-earth geometrical correlations to determine the location of the sun in foggy or dusty conditions. Solar irradiance determines how much energy can be recovered from solar collectors. for optimal energy extraction


Keywords


Sun, Photovoltaic panel, Arduino, LDR Sensor

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijmd.v8i2.1546

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