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How The Circuit Works

Once assembled, the circuit is ready to deploy with a solar panel to power an IOT device that monitors the panel's power output, temperature, and light intensity. The device displays initial messages on its LCD and connects sensors to the microcontroller's analog pins to measure the solar panel's voltage, temperature via an LM-35 sensor, and light intensity with an LDR sensor. The microcontroller then converts the analog voltage readings from the sensors to 12-bit digital values ranging from 0 to 4095 using its onboard analog-to-digital converters to analyze the solar panel's performance parameters.

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How The Circuit Works

Once assembled, the circuit is ready to deploy with a solar panel to power an IOT device that monitors the panel's power output, temperature, and light intensity. The device displays initial messages on its LCD and connects sensors to the microcontroller's analog pins to measure the solar panel's voltage, temperature via an LM-35 sensor, and light intensity with an LDR sensor. The microcontroller then converts the analog voltage readings from the sensors to 12-bit digital values ranging from 0 to 4095 using its onboard analog-to-digital converters to analyze the solar panel's performance parameters.

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How the circuit works -

Once the circuit is assembled, it is ready to deploy along with the solar panel. While
the solar panel keeps generating electricity, the attached IOT device developed in
this project monitors its various parameters. The device is powered from the mains
supply that is managing the other performance enhance equipments as well. Once
the IOT device is powered, some initial messages are flashed on its LCD display
indicating the intent of the application. The power output of the panel,
temperature and the incident light intensity are measured by the Voltage Output
pin of the solar panel, LM-35 temperature sensor and the LDR sensor respectively.
The Voltage Output pin of the solar panel, LM-35 temperature sensor and the LDR
sensor are connected to the analog input pins A1, A0 and A2 of the Particle Photon.

The respective parameters are measured by sensing the analog voltage at the
respective pins. The analog voltage sensed at the respective pins is converted to
digital values using in-built ADC channels. The Particle Photon has 12-bit ADC
channels. So the digitized values can range from 0 to 4095. Here, it is assumed that
the resistive network interfacing LDR sensor with the controller pin is calibrated to
indicate light intensity by direct proportionality.

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