JD Motha

Work place: Department of Computer Engineering, General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University, Ratmalana, Sri Lanka

E-mail: 36-ce-0008@kdu.ac.lk

Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7768-0839

Research Interests: Autonomic Computing, Wireless Networks, Wireless Communication, Computing Platform

Biography

Jude Motha is currently a BSc. Undergraduate in Computer Engineering at the Faculty of Computing, General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University. Current research is about developing an IoT-Enabled Solar Tracking System. His research interests are in IoT Applications, Wireless Networking, Cloud Computing, and Electronics.

Author Articles
Design of an IoT-Enabled Solar Tracking System For Smart Farms

By JD Motha M.W.P Maduranga NT Jayatilaka

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijwmt.2022.06.01, Pub. Date: 8 Dec. 2022

This paper presents a novel IoT system to eliminate the need for human intervention for solar panel maintenance purposes in smart farms. For the convenience of the consumer, a wireless sensing system could be implemented to automate these functions. This would eliminate the cost of any additional labor charges for panel maintenance as the system implemented would automatically calculate the position as per the current time of the day and adjust the panel's position accordingly to harvest the most amount of sun rays into the PV panel. Unlike the conventional tracking method where the panel is rotated hourly, we propose a fixed set of Sun Altitude and Azimuth angle ranges that are hardcoded to each panel position so that throughout the year whenever these angles fall out of range it jumps to the next position. The system results in a straightforward method by retrieving the current date/time from the RTC module and calculating the respective Sun Altitude and Azimuth angle to determine the position to adjust the position of the panel accordingly, thus producing effective power outputs and strong sun tracking results.

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