Development of smart solar tracking system

Zohari, Mohd Hakimi and Zainal Abidin, Muhammad Heidzer and Hussein, Lukman Iqbal and Mokhtar, Mohd Hezri (2020) Development of smart solar tracking system. Journal of Advanced Industrial Technology and Application, 1 (2). pp. 31-37. ISSN 2716-7097

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Abstract

The project is to design an active solar tracking system which able to track the sunlight with the aid of light dependent resistor (LDR) as input sensor to read the intensity of sunlight. The solar tracking system uses platform as a base and it is moved by a servo motor as the platform needs to be moved towards the sunlight to get the optimum light. The solar tracking system is programmed by using microcontroller Arduino Uno as a main controller. After the setup of the hardware and program, the tracking motion of the tracking system has been implemented to track the sun based on sunlight direction. In this work, it is designed that the motion of the tracking system is depends on the value read by LDR. As a conclusion, the solar tracking system can increase the solar panels efficiency by keeping the solar panels perpendicular with sun’s position.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Solar energy; Solar tracking system
Subjects:	T Technology > TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery Q Science > QB Astronomy > QB495-903 Descriptive astronomy > QB500.5-785 Solar system
Divisions:	Faculty of Engineering Technology > Department of Electrical Engineering Technology
Depositing User:	Miss Nur Rasyidah Rosli
Date Deposited:	30 Jan 2022 08:37
Last Modified:	30 Jan 2022 08:37
URI:	http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/id/eprint/6402

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