Energy Saving System
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2011-08-12
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UMT Lahore
Abstract
As we all know that our homeland Pakistan is suffering from the worst energy crisis in history. Every day, we are running out of fuels like petrol, diesel, gasoline, and natural gas.
So, electricity produced by these sources is also very expensive. The ideal source for Pakistan is solar energy. Due to this reason, we chose to work on this project, which can help solve these problems.
To make this a little better, our project implements a smart algorithm in order to power a load using solar energy, batteries, or WAPDA. For this project, our goal is to power a load with minimum power from WAPDA.
In order to form this project, we needed to monitor the voltage and current flow from each of the sources (solar, batteries, and WAPDA) and the load. We implemented these current and voltage monitors. The next step was to come up with an algorithm that would determine which source should be powering the load and when the battery should be charged.
The final step was to send out data to the PIC so that the data could be analyzed.