Re: Guidance & Resources to build a real-time diagnostic system for solar electric generation??

stevey wrote:
Dear AI enthusiasts,

I was excited about finding this group and joined immediately.
I'm an engineer devoted to promoting best practice for PV -the academic

name for solar electric generation.

Can anyone give me some guidance on building a diagnostic system for
solar- photovoltaics?

I'm exploring applying Expert Systems and other AI technologies to the
real-time monitoring and analysis-diagnostics of solar (PV) system
performance; also utilizing real-time measurement and a data ware
house of 15-minute system parameter logs.


Thanks,
Steve Yang, E.E.


How complicated can the diagnosis be? There aren't really a huge
number of interactions here.

If the systems you are talking about are as simple as it seems at first
glance, you can probably use almost any technique at all to get a
working diagnostic system.

The hard part will be configuring your diagnostic system for a
particular installation. Even that should be pretty easily handled by
a drag and drop system diagram tool. Some drawing programs can even be
configured with magic properties so that as you connect pieces, they
can execute simple code. That might avoid even the need to build a GUI
for your system.

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