A Continuous Health Monitoring System for Photovoltaic Array Using Arduino Microcontroller

作     者：P. Pounraj D. Prince Winston S. Cynthia Christabel R. Ramaraj P. Pounraj;D. Prince Winston;S. Cynthia Christabel;R. Ramaraj

作者机构：Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Cheran College of Engineering Karur India Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Kamaraj College of Engineering and Technology Virudhunagar India Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Sethu Institute of Technology Kariapatti India Kamaraj College of Engineering and Technology Virudhunagar India 

出 版 物：《Circuits and Systems》 (电路与系统（英文）)

年 卷 期：2016年第7卷第11期

页      面：3494-3503页

学科分类：070801[理学-固体地球物理学] 07[理学] 0708[理学-地球物理学] 

主　　题：Photovoltaic (PV) Array Health Monitoring Fault Arduino Microcontroller 

摘      要：In this paper new technique is developed to monitor the health status of the PV panels in the array. For finding the health status short circuit current is measured continuously over a fixed time period. This technique can classify the health status into four categories such as Healthy, Low Fault, Medium Fault and High Fault. By this classification faulty operation can be rectified and power generation may be improved. In case of high faults, PV panels can be protected. The cost requirement for the implementation is very low. The proposed technique is implemented in MATLAB Simulation and hardware. The array considered in this paper is 2 × 2 Series Parallel.