International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI) | Volume V, Issue IV, April 2018 | ISSN 2321–2705

Solar Tracking Using Arduino

Rakshitha Rao¹, Rashmi Rao², Sreecharan B R³, Sumanth N S⁴

  ^1-4 UG Students, 6th Sem, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Alva’s Institute of Engineering and Technology, Mangaluru, Karnataka, India

Abstract: – Unique Solar vitality is the most essential vitality for the living things. Photovoltaic cells are utilized to change over sun oriented vitality into electrical energy. This paper displays the arrangement and change of high-capability twofold turn sun in view of Arduino. A definitive focus of this undertaking is to follow the most extreme daylight and to separate the greatest power. The venture incorporates both equipment and programming headway. The equipment segment incorporates light ward resistors (LDR), servomotors and an arduino. A light ward resistor (LDR) is a gadget whose protection is a component of the occurrence electromagnetic radiation, henceforth they are light touchy gadgets. LDRs sense the measure of daylight falling on them. A servomotor is a turning actuator that is utilized to pivot the sunlight based board toward most extreme light force. Servomotor is frequently used to allude to an engine reasonable for use in a shut circle control framework. Sunlight based board retains the sun’s beams as a wellspring of vitality for creating power. The code is composed utilizing C programming dialect and is focused to the Arduino UNO controller. The Arduino Uno is a microcontroller board in view of the ATmega 328. It contains everything expected to help the microcontroller.

Keywords: PV Panel, LDR’s, dual-hub tracker arduino, servomotors

I. INTRODUCTION

The expanding interest for vitality, the persistent diminishment in existing wellsprings of petroleum derivatives and the developing concern with respect to condition contamination, have pushed humanity to investigate new innovations to deliver electrical vitality utilizing perfect, inexhaustible sources, for example, sunlight based vitality, wind vitality, and so on. Among the non-traditional, sustainable power sources, sun based vitality manages incredible potential for change into electric power, ready to guarantee an essential piece of the electrical vitality needs of the planet.