Machine Learning and the Internet of Things in Solar Power Generation

The book investigates various MPPT algorithms, and the optimization of solar energy using machine learning and deep learning. It will serve as an ideal reference text for senior undergraduate, graduate students, and academic researchers in diverse engineering domains including electrical, electronics and communication, computer, and environmental.

This book:

• Discusses data acquisition by the internet of things for real-time monitoring of solar cells.
• Covers artificial neural network techniques, solar collector optimization, and artificial neural network applications in solar heaters, and solar stills.
• Details solar analytics, smart centralized control centers, integration of microgrids, and data mining on solar data.
• Highlights the concept of asset performance improvement, effective forecasting for energy production, and Low-power wide-area network applications.
• Elaborates solar cell design principles, the equivalent circuits of single and two diode models, measuring idealist factors, and importance of series and shunt resistances.

The text elaborates solar cell design principles, the equivalent circuit of single diode model, the equivalent circuit of two diode model, measuring idealist factor, and importance of series and shunt resistances. It further discusses perturb and observe technique, modified P&O method, incremental conductance method, sliding control method, genetic algorithms, and neuro-fuzzy methodologies. It will serve as an ideal reference text for senior undergraduate, graduate students, and academic researchers in diverse engineering domains including electrical, electronics and communication, computer, and environmental.

Dr. S. U. Prabha is currently the Principal at Dr.N.G.P.Institue of Technology Coimbatore. She received her Ph.D degree in 2010 from Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Multimedia University, Malaysia. She received her M.E degree in Electrical Machines from PSG College of Technology, Bharathiyar University, Coimbatore in the year 1997, and her B.E degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Bharathiyar University, Coimbatore in the year 1993. She has 26 years of teaching experience and around two decades of research experience. She also possesses 10 years of experience in teaching and research done internationally. Her research interests include Power System Optimization, Power System Stability, Power Quality issues, Renewable Energy Resources, Smart Grid and Electric Vehicles. She has around 125 publications to her credit in both international journals and international conferences. She has also visited countries like Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia for her academic and research purposes.She is a recognized Ph.D supervisor of Anna University, Chennai and 7 scholars have graduated under her guidance. Presently she is supervising 8 Ph.D scholars.She has fetched funding from different funding agencies like UGC, AICTE, IEEE, ISTE, etc. for a tune of around 40 Lakhs. She has 4 copyrights and 4 patents to her credit.She is the recipient of the International Award, "Distinguished Women in Engineering", instituted by Venus foundation in the field of Electrical and Electronics Engineering.(2017). She has been awarded the "Best Teacher Award", instituted by the Institute of Exploring Advances in Engineering (IEAE-2018).She is a member of IEEE, IEAE, IAEMP and Life member of ISTE.

Mrs.Abinaya Inbamani is working as a full time Research Scholar at Dr.N.G.P.Institute of Technology Coimbatore.She did her Post Graduate degree in Embedded Systems from SASTRA University, Thanjavur. She completed her undergraduate degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Panimalar Engineering College, Chennai. She has a teaching experience of six years. She had been given the Best teacher award by the Institute of Scholars. Her area of interests are digital logic circuits, embedded systems and IoT. She has published papers in various Scopus journals and international conferences. She is also an online educator and also the Coursera beta tester to her credit. She is also a technologist content writer and SEO content writer.

Dr. Suman Lata Tripathi has completed her Ph.D. in the area of microelectronics and VLSI from MNNIT, Allahabad. She did her M.Tech in Electronics Engineering from UP Technical University, Lucknow and B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from Purvanchal University, Jaunpur. She is associated with Lovely Professional University as a Professor with more than seventeen years of experience in academics. She has published more than 55 research papers in refereed IEEE, Springer and IOP science journals and conferences. She has also published 11 Indian patents and 2 copyright. She has organized several workshops, summer internships, and expert lectures for students. She has worked as a session chair, conference steering committee member, editorial board member, and peer reviewer in international/national IEEE, Springer, Wiley etc Journal and conferences. She has received the "Research Excellence Award" in 2019 at Lovely professional university. She had received the best paper at IEEE ICICS-2018. She has edited and authored more than 14 books/1 Book Series in different areas of Electronics and electrical engineering. She is associated for editing work with top publishers like Elsevier, CRC Taylor and Francis, Wiley-IEEE, SP Wiley, Nova Science and Apple academic press etc. She is also associated as an editor of book Series on "Green Energy: Fundamentals, Concepts, and Applications" and "Design and development of Energy efficient systems" to be published by Scrivener Publishing, Wiley (In production). She is also associated with Wiley-IEEE for her multi-authored (ongoing) book in the area of VLSI design with HDLs. She is also working as series editor for title, "Smart Engineering Systems" CRC Press Tylor and Francis. She has already completed one book with Elsevier on "Electronic Device and Circuits Design Challenges to Implement Biomedical Applications". She is guest editor of a special issue in "Current Medical Imaging" Bentham Science. She is associated as senior member IEEE, Fellow IETE and Life member ISC and continuously involved in different professional activities along with academic work. Her area of expertise includes microelectronics device modeling and characterization, low power VLSI circuit design, VLSI design of testing, and advance FET design for IoT, Embedded System Design and biomedical applications etc.

Dr. D. Jude Hemanth received his B.E degree in ECE from Bharathiar University in 2002, M.E degree in communication systems from Anna University in 2006 and Ph.D. from Karunya University in 2013. His research areas include Computational Intelligence and Image processing. He has authored more than 150research papers in reputed SCIE indexed International Journals and Scopus indexed International Conferences. His Cumulative Impact Factor is more than 205. He has published37edited books with reputed publishers such as Elsevier, Springer and IET.He has been serving as Associate Editor/Scientific Editor of SCIE Indexed International Journalssuch as IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (IEEE-JBHI), Soft Computing (Springer), Journal of Intelligent and fuzzy systems, Mathematical Problems in Engineering. IET Quantum Communications and Dyna (Spain). He serves as an Editorial Board member/Guest Editor of many journals with leading publishers such asSpringer, Inderscience, MDPI, IGI Global, etc.He is the series editor of "Biomedical Engineering" book series in Elsevier and "Robotics & Healthcare" book series with CRC Press.He has received a project grant with 35,000 UK Pound from Government of UK (GCRF scheme) with collaborators from University of Westminster, UK. He has also completed 1 funded research project from CSIR, Govt. of India and 1 ongoing funded project from DST, Govt. of India. He also serves as the "Research Scientist" of Computational Intelligence and Information Systems (CI2S) Lab, Argentina; LAPISCO research lab, Brazil; RIADI Lab, Tunisia and Research Centre for Applied Intelligence, University of Craiova, Romania. He has been also the organizing committee member of several international conferences across the globe such as Portugal, Romania, UK, Egypt, China, etc.He has delivered more than 100Keynote talks/Invited Lectures in International Conferences/workshops. He holds professional membership with IEEE Technical Committee on Neural Networks (IEEE Computational Intelligence Society) and IEEE Technical Committee on Soft Computing (IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernatics Society) and ACM.Currently, he is working as Associate Professor in Department of ECE, Karunya University, Coimbatore, India. He also holds the position of "Visiting Professor" in Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Oradea, Romania.

Dr. Shelej khera has completed his Ph.D. in the area of Wireless communication in Electronics & Communication Engineering from Lingaya’s University Faridabad under the guidance of senior professor Dr. SVAV Prasad. The external examiner for open seminar was Dr. Manav Bhatnagar Professor from IIT Delhi & external examiner for final defense was Dr. D. R. Bhaskar Sr. Professor ECE DEPTT. Jamiya miliya islamia university, New Delhi. He did his M.Tech in Electronics & Communication Engineering from Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar and B.Tech inElectronics & Telecommunication Engineering from Pune University, Poona.He is associated with Lovely Professional University as a Professor with more than twenty five years of experience in academics. He has worked as Dean Academics UG & PG, Professor & HOD (ECE), MTECH (ECE) coordinator, NBA coordinator, Management Representative (MR) ISO, in charge Entrepreneurship & development cell in various colleges.He has published more than 40 research papers in refereed IEEE, Springer and IOP science journals and conferences. He has guided more than 25 Mtech thesis and is presently guiding 7 Phd research scholars.He has received various research grants from AICTE,ISTE,DST & EDI. He has organized several workshops, summer internships, and expert lectures for students. He had received the best paper at IEEE ICICS-2018. He has edited more than 5 books/1 Book Series in different areas of Electronics and electrical engineering. His area of expertise includes wireless communication,next generation wireless technologies,channel estimation,5G technologies,artificial intelligence,neural networks etc.