Desenvolvimento de um rastreador solar controlado por arduino

Abstract

Currently, the world sees itself in a great and growing need in the search for means of producing clean energy, both for the reason of minimizing the effects of global warming and for the financial side, because, nowadays, using Brazil as a base, energy electric utilities offered by concessionaires are increasingly expensive and the price is growing every year. As a result, people have been looking for alternatives to relieve their pockets in the long term, and a more viable alternative, which is sought after by the common consumer, is solar energy. Solar energy is captured through the installation of photovoltaic panels in homes or solar plants and energy through wiring to the electrical distribution board (in the case of homes), or power substations (in the case of solar plants). Despite being a good alternative for clean energy, solar energy has some limitations, the main one being the high initial cost of installing it. For this reason, the present work seeks an improvement of the solar energy installation system, in order to maximize the capture of a photovoltaic plate during its operation time (during the day), and, for this, it will be a tracking system solar with control made by an electronic prototyping device that allows automation on a small scale, the Arduino.