Enabling Sustainable Urban Energy: Innovating an IoT-Integrated Hysteresis-Controlled Photovoltaic Panel Controller for Maximizing Solar Electric Harvesting

A photovoltaic panel controller was specifically designed to harness solar electric power efficiently and promote its widespread adoption in urban areas. This controller establishes a connection with a server to transmit its status data and request crucial information that influences the hysteresis, enhancing both autonomy and efficiency. The server provides information based on statistical analysis, considering variables such as the voltage on the photovoltaic panel (directly proportional to sunlight radiation) and the battery voltage (directly proportional to stored energy). These data are sourced from other controllers, functioning as sample collectors and forming an interconnected network known as the Internet of Things (IOT). In its fundamental operation, the controller manages solar electric energy, determining optimal times to supply power to the load and when to switch to the conventional electric grid as an alternate power source.