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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2018
Ryan Bower Jones, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Ryan Bower Jones, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A solar panel monitoring system for a photovoltaic system includes: a soil monitoring panel including a plurality of arranged photovoltaic cells; a reference cell panel located in proximity to the soil monitoring panel, the reference cell panel including one or more photovoltaic cells; an automated cleaning system located on the reference cell panel for protecting a surface of the reference cell panel, the automated cleaning system including a cleaning system controller; and a measurement unit in electrical communication with one or more of the photovoltaic cells of the soil monitoring panel and one or more photovoltaic cells of the reference cell panel for measuring a short circuit current of the one or more photovoltaic cells of the soil monitoring panel and the one or more photovoltaic cells of the reference cell panel. When the cleaning system controller activates the automated cleaning system to clean and reveal the surface of the reference cell panel before the measurement unit measures a short circuit current of the one or more photovoltaic cells of the reference cell panel.