Author : Tapas P. Guha and R. V. Kshirsagar

The continuous increase of demand for electrical energy and the high cost of fossil fuels are the two important problems the world is facing today. The solution is in finding another renewable energy source as solar energy and it has been widely used in our life, and it is expected to grow up in next coming years. Distributed embedded solar tracking system use to collect the largest amount of solar radiation and convert it into useable form of electrical energy with minimum losses. The proposed research work suggests a distributed embedded network to establish connectivity between solar tracking nodes and thereby communicating and sharing information between the nodes. Further, if we consider the region where number of such solar panel system are setup. Each nodes will have mechanical and electronics parts and their control are not time tag rather it is continuous and also it adds more power consumption. So, if we can try and establish a network of such nodes with efficient communication protocol than we can make the controlling time tag and also power consumption can be reduced further and best utilization of resources such as sensors, information of sunlight position at any node, weather condition at node and many more can be achieved.

Keywords: Solar tracking, distributed network, embedded system, Rs-485 standard, master-slave arrangement.

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.6, No.6 (Dec-2016)