Smart Solar

Solar Monitoring System

Presents

Team Members:

Rupesh Jogani (R&D Engineer)Ravi Chaudhari (Project Manager)

Project Instructor:

Chris Talbot

Purpose of the project

What’s it all about?

Hundreds of Solar panels in Solar Farm. It’s difficult to figure out damaged solar panel. Our system will collect all power data from each single solar panel. Then we will compare this data with normalized output power of solar

farm. We will display information of solar panels on monitor Power output from defective solar panel will be less.

Schematics of PAC 1710

Single Solar Station

Simplified Block Diagram

Hardware

LPC 1768 mbed rapid prototyping board PAC 1710 precise voltage measurement IC Shunt resistor Other electronic components Breakout module for PAC 1710

Breakout module development

Etching process

Testing ReportsFile Name Expected Outcomes Problems facedI2C Tests 1 to 5 To establish communication

between PAC 1710 and LPC 1768Initially getting garbage values, 

Vsource measurement

To measure output voltage of solar panel

Datasheet didn't have proper information 

Vsense measurement

To measure output current of solar panel

Datasheet didn't have proper information, didn't work at all

Project Integration Efficient and reliable working code for 3x3 solar system

Faced some programming issue such as structure doesn't work. 

Terminal Display To provide 3x3 display pattern on Tera term. 

Escape sequence doesn't work properly

Final project To complete a project as per described in the scope

Some of the sensor in the grid wasn't working

Project Management Project Proposal Scope Statement Work Break-Down Structure Gantt Chart Budget Status Reports & Presentations Final Report & Presentation

Planned Gantt Chart

Actual Gantt Chart

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Value(PV)Actual Value(AV)

Earned Value(EV)

CPI = EV/AC

SPI = PV/AC

07 – June 1248 1248 1248 1 1

15 – June 2496 2496 2496 1 1

24 – June 4784 4784 4784 1 1

04 - July 7280 7310 6117 0.83 0.99

12 – July 8986 9365 8312 0.88 0.95

19 – July 9568 9756 10816 1.11 0.98

25 - July 12896 13021 13558 1.05 1.01

07 - Aug 13756 13796 14248 1.03 1.01

15 - Aug 15643 15712 16387 1.04 1.01

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Lesson Learned

Technical Skills

Project Management

Thank You