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Control and communication for smart photovoltaic arrays

Voutsinas Stylianos, Mandourarakis Ioannis, Koutroulis Eftychios, Karolidis Dimitrios, Voyiatzis Ioannis, Samarakou Maria

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URIhttp://purl.tuc.gr/dl/dias/32E8971E-E232-4F7A-A952-15DC1EE7C3BE-
Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.1145/3575879.3575983-
Identifierhttps://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3575879.3575983-
Languageen-
Extent6 pagesen
TitleControl and communication for smart photovoltaic arraysen
CreatorVoutsinas Stylianosen
CreatorMandourarakis Ioannisen
CreatorΜανδουραρακης Ιωαννηςel
CreatorKoutroulis Eftychiosen
CreatorΚουτρουλης Ευτυχιοςel
CreatorKarolidis Dimitriosen
CreatorVoyiatzis Ioannisen
CreatorSamarakou Mariaen
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)en
DescriptionThe authors acknowledge support of this work by the project "SmartPV: Development of a Smart Photovoltaic Cells System" (project code: T1EDK-01485) which is implemented under the call “Research - Create – Innovate”, funded by the Operational Program "Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation" and co-financed by the European Union and Greek national funds.en
Content SummaryDecarbonization of energy generation is required to address the urgent need to combat climate change and meet the Paris Agreement targets. Photovoltaic Systems (PVS) are a major contributor to this solution, and they are expected to grow significantly faster than any other renewable-energy technology in the coming years due to their appealing features. This paper discusses the development of a two-way communication protocol between two transceivers and a custom-designed communication board installed on each PV array. With this configuration, it is possible to transmit the measurements of each PV cell in the array to a data recording and monitoring service. Additionally, the application can customize the operation of the strings that make up the array, by broadcasting special commands to them. A prototype experimental setup was constructed in order to test the communication between the PV array communication board and the uplink/downlink transceivers. The experimental results verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed communication protocol between the Electronics Interface System (EIS) and the Smart PV array since the communication protocol meets the specification for transmitting the information from 1000 smart PV cells within one minute, as well as the strict timing requirements by the protocol for transmitting the parameters to the PV strings.en
Type of ItemΠλήρης Δημοσίευση σε Συνέδριοel
Type of ItemConference Full Paperen
Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
Date of Item2024-09-19-
Date of Publication2022-
SubjectPower line communicationen
SubjectCommunication protocolsen
SubjectPCB Designen
SubjectSmart Griden
SubjectPhotovoltaicsen
Bibliographic CitationS. Voutsinas, I. Mandourarakis, E. Koutroulis, D. Karolidis, I. Voyiatzis and M. Samarakou, “Control and communication for smart photovoltaic arrays,” in Proceedings of the 26th Pan-Hellenic Conference on Informatics (PCI 2022), Athens, Greece, 2022, pp. 139–144, Mar. 2023, doi: 10.1145/3575879.3575983.en

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