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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2009
Applicant:
Andrew Foss, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Andrew Foss, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 23/00 (2006.01); G08C 15/06 (2006.01); H02H 3/20 (2006.01); H02H 9/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method for monitoring performance of one or more solar panels in a photovoltaic array. The system and method includes a number of sensors are configured to measure an output of individual solar panels. A telemetry gateway collects data from the sensors and transmits the collected data to a monitoring system. The monitoring system includes an event signature recognizer; a trend analyzer; and a symmetry analyzer. The monitoring system detects events, trends and solar panel array asymmetry. Additionally, the monitoring system displays realtime graphs, proposed corrective actions, and alerts via a user interface.