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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2016
Ryan Bower Jones, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Ryan Bower Jones, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A solar panel soiling monitoring system is provided for measuring soiling losses on a photo-voltaic system. The solar panel monitoring system includes: a soil monitoring panel including a plurality of arranged photovoltaic cells connected in series to one another; a measurement unit in electronic communication with a switchbox for controlling measurements of each of the photovoltaic cells; a communication unit in electronic communication with the measurement unit; and a data storage system in electronic communication with the communication unit including a processor, a computer readable storage medium, and one or more computer programs operable on the data storage system. The data storage system determines soiling conditions of the soil monitoring panel based on measured short circuit currents of each of the plurality of photovoltaic cells of the soil monitoring panels.